2 “If you buy a Hebrew slave,+ he will serve as a slave for six years, but in the seventh year, he will be set free without paying anything.+

39 “ ‘If your brother who lives nearby becomes poor and he has to sell himself to you,+ you must not force him to do slave labor.+ 40 He should be treated like a hired worker,+ like a settler. He should serve with you until the Jubilee year. 41 Then he will leave you, he and his children* with him, and return to his family. He should return to the property of his forefathers.+ 42 For they are my slaves whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.+ They should not sell themselves the way a slave is sold.