Lev 25:39-43 | NASB1995 | STEP | ‘ If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service .

d Ex 1:13, 14; Lev 25:46, 53; Ezek 34:4; Col 4:1

Leviticus 25:39-43

39 ‘ ^aIf a ^{▼▼ Lit brother}countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service. 40 ‘He shall be with you as a hired man, as ^cif he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. 41 ‘He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers. 42 ‘For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale. 43 ‘ ^dYou shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.