Lev 25:39-42, 1Sa 1:22 | ESV | STEP | If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave :

a Ex. 21:2; Deut. 15:12; 1 Kgs. 9:22; 2 Kgs. 4:1; Neh. 5:5

b[See ver. 28 above]

Leviticus 25:39-42

39 ^a“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: 40 he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. 41 ^bThen he shall go out from you, ^che and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return ^dto the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are ^emy servants, ^{▼▼Hebrew slaves} whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

1 Samuel 1:22

22 But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the Lord ^gand dwell there forever.”