New English Translation

Leviticus 25:38-43 New English Translation (NET)

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

39. “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

40. He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

41. but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

42. Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.

43. You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.