39-43 “If one of your brothers becomes indigent and has to sell himself to you, don’t make him work as a slave. Treat him as a hired hand or a guest among you. He will work for you until the Jubilee, after which he and his children are set free to go back to his clan and his ancestral land. Because the People of Israel are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt, they must never be sold as slaves. Don’t tyrannize them; fear your God.

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41 Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property(A) of their ancestors.(B) 42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt,(C) they must not be sold as slaves. 43 Do not rule over them ruthlessly,(D) but fear your God.(E)

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