Then they and their children with them shall be free from your authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their ancestral property.
Leviticus 25:40 - New Revised Standard Version They shall remain with you as hired or bound laborers. They shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But as a hired servant and as a temporary resident he shall be with you; he shall serve you till the Year of Jubilee, American Standard Version (1901) As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee: Common English Bible Instead, they will be like a hired laborer or foreign guest to you. They will work for you until the Jubilee year, Catholic Public Domain Version But he shall be like a hired hand or a settler; he shall work with you, until the year of the Jubilee. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee. |
Then they and their children with them shall be free from your authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their ancestral property.
And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go free in the jubilee year.
If a member of your community, whether a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and works for you six years, in the seventh year you shall set that person free.