31. ‘The houses of villages, however, which have no wall around them are reckoned as the field of the country. A right of redemption belongs to it, and they are released in the Jubilee.
32. ‘As for the cities of the Lĕwites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Lĕwites have a right of redemption forever.
33. ‘And that which is redeemed from the Lĕwites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Lĕwites are their possession in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
34. ‘But the field of the open land of their cities is not sold, for it is their everlasting possession.
35. ‘And when your brother becomes poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall sustain him, and he shall live with you, like a stranger or a sojourner.
36. ‘Take no interest from him, or profit, but you shall fear your Elohim, and your brother shall live with you.
37. ‘Do not lend him your silver on interest, and do not lend him your food for profit.
38. ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to give you the land of Kena‛an, to be your Elohim.
39. ‘And when your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, do not make him serve as a slave.
40. ‘But as a hired servant, as a settler he is with you, and serves you until the Year of Jubilee.
41. ‘And then he shall leave you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own clan, even return to the possession of his fathers.
42. ‘For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, they are not sold as slaves.
43. ‘Do not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your Elohim.
44. ‘And your male and female slaves whom you have from the nations that are around you, from them you buy male and female slaves,
45. and also from the sons of the strangers sojourning among you, from them you buy, and from their clans who are with you, which they shall bring forth in your land, and they shall be your property.
46. ‘And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession, they are your slaves for all time. But over your brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕl, you do not rule with harshness, one over another.
47. ‘Now when a sojourner or a settler with you becomes rich, and your brother with him becomes poor, and sells himself to the settler or sojourner with you, or to a member of the sojourner’s clan,