³⁹ ‘^(A)If a ^[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. ⁴⁰ He shall be with you as a hired man, as ^(B)if 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 (C)You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.

¹² “^(A)If your ^[a]kinsman, a Hebrew man or woman, is sold to you, then he shall serve you six years, but in the seventh year you shall set him ^[b]free. ¹³ When you set him ^[c]free, you shall not send him away empty-handed. ¹⁴ You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the Lord your God has blessed you. ¹⁵ You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you ^[d]this today. ¹⁶ It shall come about ^(B)if he says to you, ‘I will not go out from you,’ because he loves you and your household, since he fares well with you; ¹⁷ then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant.

¹⁸ “It shall not seem hard to you when you set him ^[e]free, for he has given you six years with ^[f]double the service of a hired man; so the Lord your God will bless you in whatever you do.

¹⁴ “^(A)At the end of seven years each of you shall set free his Hebrew brother who ^[a]has been sold to you and has served you six years, you shall send him out free from you; but your forefathers ^(B)did not obey Me or incline their ear to Me.