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Leviticus 25:34-44 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

34. And a field, a suburb of their cities, is not sold; for a possession age-during it [is] to them.

35. `And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

36. thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

37. thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

38. I [am] Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become your God.

39. `And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

40. as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, --

41. then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.

42. `For they [are] My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold [with] the sale of a servant;

43. thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.

44. `And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast [are] of the nations who [are] round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,

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