11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land; therefore, I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.
12 And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold unto thee and serves thee six years, then in the seventh year thou shalt send him forth from thee free.
13 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not send him away empty.
14 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock and out of thy threshing floor and out of thy winepress; of that with which the Lord thy God has blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God ransomed thee; therefore, I command thee this thing to day.
16 And it shall be, if he says unto thee, I will not go away from thee because he loves thee and thy house because he is well with thee,
17 then thou shalt take an aul and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy slave for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.