◄ Leviticus 25:40 ►
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Good News Translation
They shall stay with you as hired workers and serve you until the next Year of Restoration.

New Revised Standard Version
They shall remain with you as hired or bound laborers. They shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.

Contemporary English Version
Then you must treat them as servants, rather than as slaves. And in the Year of Celebration they are to be set free,

New American Bible
Rather, let them be like laborers or like your tenants, working with you until the jubilee year,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.

Exodus 21:2,3 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. . . .

Context
Redemption of Bondmen
39If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants. 40But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.41And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:2
If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Leviticus 25:41
And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.

Leviticus 25:39
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