50 “ ‘He and the one who bought him must count the time from when he sold himself up to the next year of Jubilee. Use that number to decide the price, because the person really only hired himself out for a certain number of years.
51 If there are still many years before the year of Jubilee, the person must pay back a large part of the price.
52 If there are only a few years left until Jubilee, the person must pay a small part of the first price.
53 But he will live like a hired person with the foreigner every year; don’t let the foreigner rule cruelly over him.
54 “ ‘Even if no one buys him back, at the year of Jubilee, he and his children will become free.
55 This is because the people of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.