42. For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
43. You shall not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your God.
44. Both your male and female slaves, whom you may have, they shall be bought from the nations that are around you.
45. Moreover of the foreigners who sojourn among you and of their families who are with you, who were born in your land, you may also buy from them, and they may be your possession.
46. You may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, for their possession. They shall be your slaves forever. But over your brothers, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
47. If a sojourner or foreigner becomes rich by you, and your brother who dwells beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the foreigner or sojourner with you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,
48. then after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him,
49. or either his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he is able, he may redeem himself.