Leviticus 25:40

he is as a hired worker [and] as a settler with you; he serves with you until the Year of the Jubilee—

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

In Context

39And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you do not lay servile service on him;

41then he has gone out from you, he and his sons with him, and has turned back to his family; and he turns back to the possession of his fathers.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:2When you buy a Hebrew servant, he serves [for] six years, and in the seventh he goes out as a freeman for nothing;

Deuteronomy 15:12When your brother is sold to you, a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, and he has served you [for] six years, then in the seventh year you send him away free from you.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:40-55

Oppression of Brethren Forbidden. ( b. c. 1490.) 39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee: 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, which I brought… Read the whole commentary →

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