38 I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of the land of Egypt to give the land of Canaan to you and to become your God.
39 “If anyone from your own country becomes so poor that they must sell themselves to you, don’t make them work like slaves.
40 They will be like hired workers and visitors with you until the year of Jubilee.
41 Then they can leave you, take their children, and go back to their family. They can go back to the property of their ancestors,
42 because they are my servants. I brought them out of slavery in Egypt. They must not become slaves again.
43 You must not be a cruel master to them. You must respect your God.
44 “About your men and women slaves: You may get men and women slaves from the other nations around you.