Leviticus 25:53 KJV — MannaFest

Leviticus 25:53

And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

KJV

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ASV

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

WEB

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

YLT

as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.

DBT

As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; [his master] shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes.

About this book

Old Testament

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Leviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.

Author: Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
Date: Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)

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Leviticus 25:43
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
Leviticus 25:46
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Leviticus 25:50
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

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), in thy sight, which intimated that the Jewish magistrates should particularly have an eye to him, and, if he were abused, should take cognizance of it, and redress his grievances, though the injured servant did not himself complain. Also he was to go free at the year of jubilee,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the L ORD .

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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