World English Bible

Leviticus 25:39

“If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.”

Verse in context — Leviticus 25

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

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

If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

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