As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.
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As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.
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But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
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As a hired servant, and as a settler, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee.
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- Exodus 21:2-3 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But as an hired servant,.... Who is hired by…
But as an hired servant,.... Who is hired by the day, or month, or year; and, when his time is up, receives his wages and goes where he pleases, and while a servant is not under such despotic power and government as a slave is:
and as a sojourner; an inmate, one that dwells in part of a man's house, or boards and lodges with him, and whom he treats in a kind and familiar manner, rather like one of his own family than otherwise:
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he shall be with thee; as under the above characters, and used as such: this the Jews refer to food and drink, and other things, as they do, Deu 15:16; and say (q) that a master might not eat fine bread, and his servant bread of bran; nor drink old wine, and his servant new; nor sleep on soft pillows and bedding, and his servant on straw: hence, they say (r), he that gets himself an Hebrew servant is as if he got himself a master:
and shall serve thee unto the year of the jubilee; and no longer; for if the year of jubilee came before the six years were expired for which he sold himself, the jubilee set him free, as Jarchi observes; nay, if be sold himself for ten or twenty years, and that but one year before the jubilee, it set him free, as Maimonides says (s).
(q) Maimon. in Misn. Kiddushin, c. 1. sect. 2. (r) Ibid. (s) Hilchot Abadim, c. 2. sect. 3.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Hireling, who has engaged to work for a term…
Hireling, who has engaged to work for a term of years, either of six, or at most 49. After the year of the jubilee, he might enter into fresh engagements with his late master. (Haydock) --- The Hebrews have always hated slavery. We have never been slaves to any, John viii. 33. They were not allowed to part with their liberty, except from absolute distress; (Maimonides) and then they do not submit to what they call intrinsical slavery. --- [Ver. 41.] Children. His wife and children were not made slaves of him. But if his master gave him a second wife, her children belonged to their common master. (Selden, Jur. vi. 1.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (40) But as an hired servant.—The master is in…
(40) But as an hired servant.—The master is in all respects to treat him as one who disposes of his service for wages for a certain time, and will then be his own master again.
Shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.—Nor could he be kept beyond the year of jubile. This terminated the sale of his services just as it cancelled all the sales of landed property.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 25:40 The terms hired worker . . . temporary…
25:40 The terms hired worker . . . temporary resident appear in parallel, suggesting they were similar in Israel’s socioeconomic system. Both terms describe day laborers who had no land and depended on landowners to hire them (see Matt 20:1-16; also see study note on Lev 19:13). • Jubilee: See study note on 25:8-17.
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