No family would sink into generations of poverty. Another merciful provision of God’s Law allowed a man who had suffered adversity to sell himself into slavery.
यामुळे कोणतेही कुटुंब पिढ्या न्‌ पिढ्या दारिद्र्‌यात राहत नव्हते. — लेवीय २५: १०, २३.