New American Bible, Revised Edition

Leviticus 25:33-43 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

33. As for levitical property that goes unredeemed—houses sold in cities of their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in levitical cities are their possession in the midst of the Israelites.

34. Moreover, the pasture land belonging to their cities shall not be sold at all; it must always remain their possession.

35. When one of your kindred is reduced to poverty and becomes indebted to you, you shall support that person like a resident alien; let your kindred live with you.

36. Do not exact interest in advance or accrued interest, but out of fear of God let your kindred live with you.

37. Do not give your money at interest or your food at a profit.

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

39. When your kindred with you, having been so reduced to poverty, sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

40. Rather, let them be like laborers or like your tenants, working with you until the jubilee year,

41. when, together with any children, they shall be released from your service and return to their family and to their ancestral property.

42. Since they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they shall not sell themselves as slaves are sold.

43. Do not lord it over them harshly, but stand in fear of your God.