World English Bible

Leviticus 25:40

“As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:”

Verse in context — Leviticus 25

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

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