Leviticus 25:37-47 (New American Standard)
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37
'You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.
38
'1I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and 2to be your God.
39
'3If a acountryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service.
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'He shall be with you as a hired man, as 4if he were a sojourner ; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.
41
'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.
42
'For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt ; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.
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'5You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.
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'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have -you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.
45
'Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have bproduced in your land ; they also may become your possession.
46
'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession ; you can use them as permanent slaves. 6But in respect to your ccountrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.
Of Redeeming a Poor Man
47 'Now if the dmeans of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a ecountryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger's family,New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. (New American Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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