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sojourners with Me. And in all the land of servants, whom I brought out of the land of
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your possession you shall grant redemption of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. You
the land. shall not rule over him with rigor, but you
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25 ‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and shall fear your God. And as for your male and
has sold some of his possession, and if his female slaves whom you may have—from the
redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then nations that are around you, from them you
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he may redeem what his brother sold. Or if may buy male and female slaves. Moreover
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the man has no one to redeem it, but he him- you may buy the children of the strangers who
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self becomes able to redeem it, then let him dwell among you, and their families who are
count the years since its sale, and restore the with you, which they beget in your land; and
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remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that they shall become your property. And you
he may return to his possession. But if he is may take them as an inheritance for your chil-
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not able to have it restored to himself, then dren after you, to inherit them as a possession;
what was sold shall remain in the hand of him they shall be your permanent slaves. But
who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in regarding your brethren, the children of Israel,
the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
return to his possession. 47 ‘Now if a sojourner or stranger close to
29 ‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then you becomes rich, and one of your brethren
he may redeem it within a whole year after it who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells
is sold; within a full year he may redeem it. himself to the stranger or sojourner close to
30 But if it is not redeemed within the space of a you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,
full year, then the house in the walled city 48 after he is sold he may be redeemed again.
shall belong permanently to him who bought One of his brothers may redeem him; or his
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it, throughout his generations. It shall not be uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him; or
released in the Jubilee. However the houses anyone who is near of kin to him in his family
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of villages which have no wall around them may redeem him; or if he is able he may
shall be counted as the fields of the country. redeem himself. Thus he shall reckon with
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They may be redeemed, and they shall be him who bought him: The price of his release
released in the Jubilee. Nevertheless the shall be according to the number of years,
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cities of the Levites, and the houses in the from the year that he was sold to him until the
cities of their possession, the Levites may Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the
redeem at any time. And if a man purchases time of a hired servant for him. If there are
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a house from the Levites, then the house that still many years remaining, according to them
was sold in the city of his possession shall be he shall repay the price of his redemption
released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the from the money with which he was bought.
cities of the Levites are their possession 52 And if there remain but a few years until the
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among the children of Israel. But the field of Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him,
the common-land of their cities may not be and according to his years he shall repay him
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sold, for it is their perpetual possession. the price of his redemption. He shall be with
35 ‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not
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falls into poverty among you, then you shall rule with rigor over him in your sight. And if
help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he is not redeemed in these years, then he
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he may live with you. Take no usury or inter- shall be released in the Year of Jubilee—he
est from him; but fear your God, that your and his children with him. For the children
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brother may live with you. You shall not lend of Israel are servants to Me; they are My ser-
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him your money for usury, nor lend him your vants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt:
food at a profit. I am the LORD your God, who I am the LORD your God.
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brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give Psalm 28:6–9
you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
39 ‘And if one of your brethren who dwells by 6 Blessed be the LORD,
you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, Because He has heard the voice of my
you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. supplications!
40 As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall 7 The LORD is my strength and my
be with you, and shall serve you until the Year shield;
of Jubilee. And then he shall depart from My heart trusted in Him,
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you—he and his children with him—and shall and I am helped;
return to his own family. He shall return to the Therefore my heart greatly rejoices,
possession of his fathers. For they are My And with my song I will praise Him.
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