Imamat 25:39-42

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  25:42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale. ⁶ 

Imamat 25:1

Regulations for the Sabbatical Year

25:1 The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai:

1 Samuel 1:22

1:22 but Hannah did not go up with them. ⁷  Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

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.

² tn See the note on Lev 25:6 above.

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

⁴ tn Heb “may go out from you.”

⁵ tn Heb “fathers.”

⁶ tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”

⁷ tn The disjunctive clause is contrastive here. The words “with them” have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.