Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly. New Living Translation The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly. English Standard Version He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight. Berean Standard Bible 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. King James Bible And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. New King James Version He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight. New American Standard Bible He shall be with him like a worker hired year by year; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight. NASB 1995 ‘Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight. NASB 1977 ‘Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight. Legacy Standard Bible Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not have dominion over him with brutality in your sight. Amplified Bible Like a man hired year by year he shall deal with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness in your sight. Christian Standard Bible He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A resident alien is not to rule over him harshly in your sight. Holman Christian Standard Bible He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A foreign owner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight. American Standard Version As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight. Contemporary English Version And even while you are the slaves of foreigners in your own country, your people must make sure that you are not mistreated. English Revised Version As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. GOD'S WORD® Translation During those years he should serve his buyer as a hired worker. His buyer should not treat him harshly. Good News Translation as if they had been hired on an annual basis. Their master must not treat them harshly. International Standard Version Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity. Majority Standard Bible 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. NET Bible He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight. New Heart English Bible As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight. Webster's Bible Translation And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight. World English Bible As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionas a hired worker, year by year, he is with him, and he does not rule him with rigor before your eyes. Young's Literal Translation as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes. Smith's Literal Translation As the hireling of the year by the year shall he be with him: he shall not rule him by crushing to thine eyes. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleHis wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight. Catholic Public Domain Version his wages being charged by what served before. He shall not afflict him violently in your sight. New American Bible The tenant alien shall treat those who sold themselves as laborers hired on an annual basis, and the alien shall not lord it over them harshly before your very eyes. New Revised Standard Version As a laborer hired by the year they shall be under the alien’s authority, who shall not, however, rule with harshness over them in your sight. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAs a yearly hired servant shall he be with him; and he shall not subject him to hard labor in your sight. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated As a hired man, year by year he shall be with him; he shall not force him to labor severely before your eyes. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. Brenton Septuagint Translation as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; thou shalt not oppress him with labour before thee. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Redemption of Servants…52If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years. 53He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight. 54Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.… Cross References Exodus 21:2-6 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. / If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him. / If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free. ... Deuteronomy 15:12-18 If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free. / And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed. / You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you. ... Jeremiah 34:14 Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear. Nehemiah 5:8-13 and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say. / So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies? / I, as well as my brothers and my servants, have been lending the people money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury. ... Isaiah 58:6 Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke? Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery. 1 Corinthians 7:21-23 Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let it concern you—but if you can gain your freedom, take the opportunity. / For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave. / You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. Ephesians 6:5-9 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. / And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. / Serve with good will, as to the Lord and not to men, ... Colossians 4:1 Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you also have a Master in heaven. Philemon 1:15-16 For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good— / no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord. Matthew 18:23-35 Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. / As he began the settlements, a debtor owing ten thousand talents was brought to him. / Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned. ... Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, Romans 6:18-22 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. / I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. / For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness. ... 1 Peter 2:16 Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God. James 2:13 For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment. Treasury of Scripture And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight. Leviticus 25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. Jump to Previous Cruel Eyes Harshness Hired Hireling Master Owner Payment Rigor Rigour Rule Ruthlessly Servant Severity Sight Treated Working YearlyJump to Next Cruel Eyes Harshness Hired Hireling Master Owner Payment Rigor Rigour Rule Ruthlessly Servant Severity Sight Treated Working YearlyLeviticus 25 1. the Sabbath of the seventh year8. The jubilee in the fiftieth year 14. Of oppression 18. A blessing of obedience 23. The redemption of land 29. Of houses 35. Compassion to the poor 39. The usage of bondmen 47. The redemption of servants He shall stay with him This phrase indicates a temporary arrangement rather than permanent ownership, reflecting the Hebrew word "gûr," which means to sojourn or dwell temporarily. In the context of ancient Israel, this highlights the importance of community and the protection of individuals from becoming permanent slaves. It underscores the value of freedom and the dignity of every person, reminding us that all are ultimately sojourners under God's sovereignty. as a hired worker year by year but a slave shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight And the other shall not rule with rigour over him.--Better, he shall not rule, &c, that is, the heathen master. The words "and the other" are not in the original, and the sense of the passage is quite plain without them. In thy sight.--The Israelite is here admonished not to be a tacit spectator of the cruel treatment of his brother Israelite by a heathen master, and though he is not to resent in the same way in which the Lawgiver himself resented it (Exodus 2:11-12), still he is to remonstrate with the cruel Gentile, and invoke the protection of the powers that be. Hebrew Like a man hiredכִּשְׂכִ֥יר (kiś·ḵîr) Preposition-k | Adjective - masculine singular construct Strong's 7916: A man at wages from year שָׁנָ֛ה (šā·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8141: A year to year, בְּשָׁנָ֖ה (bə·šā·nāh) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8141: A year he will stay יִהְיֶ֣ה (yih·yeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be with him, עִמּ֑וֹ (‘im·mōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular Strong's 5973: With, equally with but a foreign owner must not לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no rule יִרְדֶּ֥נּֽוּ (yir·den·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine singular Strong's 7287: To tread down, subjugate, to crumble off over him harshly בְּפֶ֖רֶךְ (bə·p̄e·reḵ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6531: Harshness, severity in your sight. לְעֵינֶֽיךָ׃ (lə·‘ê·ne·ḵā) Preposition-l | Noun - cdc | second person masculine singular Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain Links Leviticus 25:53 NIVLeviticus 25:53 NLT Leviticus 25:53 ESV Leviticus 25:53 NASB Leviticus 25:53 KJV Leviticus 25:53 BibleApps.com Leviticus 25:53 Biblia Paralela Leviticus 25:53 Chinese Bible Leviticus 25:53 French Bible Leviticus 25:53 Catholic Bible OT Law: Leviticus 25:53 As a servant hired year by year (Le Lv Lev.) |
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