38. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be as God for you.
39. “ ‘And if your countryman who is with you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, you shall not treat him as a slave.
40. He shall be with you like a hired worker, like a temporary resident; he shall work with you until the Year of Jubilee.
41. And he and his sons with him shall go out from you, and he shall return to his clan, and to the property of his ancestors he shall return.
42. Because they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they shall not be sold as a slave.
43. You shall not rule over him with ruthlessness, but you shall revere your God.
44. “ ‘As for your slave and your slave woman who are yours, from the nations that are all around you, from them you may buy a slave or a slave woman.
45. And you may buy also from the children of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed, they may be as property for you.
46. And you may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you to take possession of as property for all time—you may let them work. But as for your countrymen, the Israelites, you shall not rule with ruthlessness over one another.
47. “ ‘And if the alien or the temporary resident who are with you prosper, but your countryman who is with him becomes poor and he is sold to an alien, a temporary resident who is with you, or to a descendant of an alien’s clan,
48. after he is sold redemption shall be for him; one of his brothers may redeem him,