Leviticus 25:39-41

25:39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. ¹  25:40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; ²  he must serve with you until the year of jubilee, 25:41 but then ³  he may go free, ⁴  he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors. ⁵ 

Leviticus 25:44

25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves ⁶  who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. ⁷ 

[25:39]  ¹ tn Heb “you shall not serve against him service of a slave.” A distinction is being made here between the status of slave and indentured servant.

[25:40]  ² tn See the note on Lev 25:6 above.

[25:41]  ³ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.

[25:41]  ⁴ tn Heb “may go out from you.”

[25:41]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”

[25:44]  ⁶ tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.

[25:44]  ⁷ tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”