Darby Translation 1890

Leviticus 25:37-48 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

37. Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

38. I am Jehovah your God who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God

39. And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

40. as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee.

41. Then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

42. For they are my bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as men sell bondmen.

43. Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt fear thy God

44. And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have--of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.

45. Moreover of the children of them that dwell as sojourners with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your possession.

46. And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour.

47. And if a stranger or sojourner become wealthy beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion of the stranger's family,

48. after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.