32. In levitical cities the Levites shall always have the right to redeem the houses in the cities that are in their possession.
33. As for levitical property that goes unredeemed—houses sold in cities of their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in levitical cities are their possession in the midst of the Israelites.
34. Moreover, the pasture land belonging to their cities shall not be sold at all; it must always remain their possession.
35. When one of your kindred is reduced to poverty and becomes indebted to you, you shall support that person like a resident alien; let your kindred live with you.
36. Do not exact interest in advance or accrued interest, but out of fear of God let your kindred live with you.
37. Do not give your money at interest or your food at a profit.
38. I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
39. When your kindred with you, having been so reduced to poverty, sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.
40. Rather, let them be like laborers or like your tenants, working with you until the jubilee year,
41. when, together with any children, they shall be released from your service and return to their family and to their ancestral property.
42. Since they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they shall not sell themselves as slaves are sold.
43. Do not lord it over them harshly, but stand in fear of your God.
44. The male and female slaves that you possess—these you shall acquire from the nations round about you.
45. You may also acquire them from among the resident aliens who reside with you, and from their families who are with you, those whom they bore in your land. These you may possess,
46. and bequeath to your children as their hereditary possession forever. You may treat them as slaves. But none of you shall lord it harshly over any of your fellow Israelites.
47. When your kindred, having been so reduced to poverty, sell themselves to a resident alien who has become wealthy or to descendants of a resident alien’s family,
48. even after having sold themselves, they still may be redeemed by one of their kindred,
49. by an uncle or cousin, or by some other relative from their family; or, having acquired the means, they may pay the redemption price themselves.