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Leviticus 25:40

Leviticus 25:40 is verse 40 of Leviticus chapter 25, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

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

Leviticus 25:38–42 · Berean Standard Bible

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

39 If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

40 Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

41 Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.

42 Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

Exodus 21:3
If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.