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46 You may give them as inherited property to your children[a] after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israeli with harshness.

47 “If a resident alien or traveler becomes rich,[b] but your relative who lives next to him is so poor that he sells himself to that resident alien or traveler among you or to a member of the resident alien’s family, 48 he has the right to be redeemed after he sells himself. One of his brothers may redeem him.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:46 Lit. sons
  2. Leviticus 25:47 Lit. his hand overtakes