40. ‘But as a hired servant, as a settler he is with you, and serves you until the Year of Jubilee.
41. ‘And then he shall leave you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own clan, even return to the possession of his fathers.
42. ‘For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, they are not sold as slaves.
43. ‘Do not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your Elohim.
44. ‘And your male and female slaves whom you have from the nations that are around you, from them you buy male and female slaves,
45. and also from the sons of the strangers sojourning among you, from them you buy, and from their clans who are with you, which they shall bring forth in your land, and they shall be your property.
46. ‘And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession, they are your slaves for all time. But over your brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕl, you do not rule with harshness, one over another.
47. ‘Now when a sojourner or a settler with you becomes rich, and your brother with him becomes poor, and sells himself to the settler or sojourner with you, or to a member of the sojourner’s clan,
48. after he has been sold, there is a right of redemption to him – one of his brothers does redeem him,
49. or his uncle or his uncle’s son does redeem him, or anyone who is a close relative to him in his clan does redeem him, or if he is able, then he shall redeem himself.
50. ‘And he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; as the days of a hired servant it is with him.
51. ‘If there are yet many years, according to them he repays the price of his redemption, from the silver of his purchase.
52. ‘And if few years are left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he repays him the price of his redemption.
53. ‘He is with him as a yearly hired servant, and he does not rule with harshness over him before your eyes.