“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,

“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.

He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.

Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,

“‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,

the one who is sick in her menstruation, the one with a discharge, whether male or female, and a man who has sexual intercourse with an unclean woman.’”

You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,

Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.

“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.

I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.

“‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.

However, when they confess their iniquity and their ancestors’ iniquity which they committed by trespassing against me, by which they also walked in hostility against me

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,