^{39 Ref} "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

^{40 Ref} As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

^{41 Ref} 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.

^{42 Ref} For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

^{43 Ref} You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.