40. He will be like a hired worker and a visitor with you until the year of Jubilee.
41. Then he may leave you, take his children, and go back to his family and the land of his ancestors.
42. This is because the Israelites are my servants, and I brought them out of slavery in Egypt. They must not become slaves again.
43. You must not rule this person cruelly, but you must respect your God.
44. “ ‘Your men and women slaves must come from other nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.