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Leviticus 25:53
[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
Leviticus 25:53 · Webster Bible
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Leviticus 25:53 in other translations
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
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.
As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
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In context
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he was sold to him, to the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him.
51 If [there shall be] yet many years [behind], according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
52 And if there shall remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
53 [And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
54 And if he shall not be redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, [both] he, and his children with him.
55 For to me the children of Israel [are] servants, they [are] my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
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