Go and teach all nations
Leviticus 25:47-55
The Law concerning the servants redemption
v47 A person from another country may become rich. Then he might buy an Israelite who became poor. But the poor man can buy himself back at any time.
v48 A person from the family of the poor man can buy him back.
v49 A brother or a cousin of the poor man can buy him back. If the poor man becomes rich, he can pay to make himself free.
v50 The man and the person who bought him must count the time until the Jubilee year. The man must pay the right amount of money to be free.
v51 The Jubilee year may be many years away. If it is, the man must pay a lot of money to be free.
v52 There may be a few years until the Jubilee year. If there are, he has to pay only a small amount of money to be free.
v53 The person who has bought the man must pay him each year. You must cause the rich man to be kind to the man.
v54 Perhaps nobody will pay any money for the man. But the man who bought him must make him free in the Jubilee year.
v55 Israel’s people belong to me. I brought them out of Egypt. They are my servants. I am the Lord.
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Go and teach all nations