38. I am the Lord your God, Who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
39. And if your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bondman (a slave not eligible for redemption),
40. But as a hired servant and as a temporary resident he shall be with you; he shall serve you till the Year of Jubilee,
41. And then he shall depart from you, he and his children with him, and shall go back to his own family and return to the possession of his fathers.
42. For the Israelites are My servants; I brought them out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen. [I Cor. 7:23.]
43. You shall not rule over him with harshness (severity, oppression), but you shall [reverently] fear your God. [Eph. 6:9; Col. 4:1.]
44. As for your bondmen and your bondmaids whom you may have, they shall be from the nations round about you, of whom you may buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45. Moreover, of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may buy and of their families that are with you which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession.