³⁹ ‘^(A)If a brother of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service. ⁴⁰ He shall be with you as a hired man, as ^(B)if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family, that he may return to the possession of the land of his fathers.

⁴⁸ then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

² Then everyone who was in distress, and everyone who ^[a]was in debt, and everyone who was bitter of soul, gathered to him; and he became a commander over them. Now there were ^(A)about four hundred men with him.

² Now there were those who were saying, “We, with our sons and our daughters, are many; therefore let us ^(A)get grain that we may eat and live.” ³ There were others who were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses, that we might get grain because of the famine.” ⁴ Also there were those who were saying, “We have borrowed money ^(B)for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. ⁵ But now ^(C)our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, ^(D)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into subjugation, and we have no power in our hands to help, and our fields and vineyards belong to others.”