Leviticus 25:50

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They shall compute with the purchaser the total from the year when they sold themselves to the alien until the Jubilee year; the price of the sale shall be applied to the number of years: the time they were with the owner shall be rated as the time of a hired laborer.

Cross References

Job 14:6

look away from them and desist, that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.

Isaiah 16:14

But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”

Isaiah 21:16

For thus the Lord said to me: “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end,

Leviticus 25:28

But if there are not sufficient means to recover it, what was sold shall remain with the purchaser until the year of Jubilee; in the Jubilee it shall be released, and the property shall be returned.

Leviticus 25:40

They shall remain with you as hired or bound laborers. They shall serve with you until the year of the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:49

or their uncle or their uncle’s son may redeem them, or anyone of their family who is of their own flesh may redeem them, or if they prosper they may redeem themselves.

Leviticus 25:51

If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price,

Leviticus 25:53

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.

Deuteronomy 15:18

“Do not consider it a hardship when you send them out from you free persons, because for six years they have given you services worth the wages of hired laborers, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.