Leviticus 25:40

He shall be with you as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for you till the year of release:

LXX2012 (US English)

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 if your brother by you be lowered, and be sold to you, he shall not serve you with the servitude of a slave.

41and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:2If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve you, and in the seventh year he shall go forth free for nothing.

Deuteronomy 15:12And if your brother or sister, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall send him out 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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