◄ Leviticus 25:53 ►
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Good News Translation
as if they had been hired on an annual basis. Their master must not treat them harshly.

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.

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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.

Leviticus 25:43 Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.

Context
Redemption of Servants
…52If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years. 53His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.54And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.…
Cross References
Exodus 1:13
And the Egyptians hated the children of Israel, and afflicted them and mocked them:

Leviticus 25:43
Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.

Leviticus 25:52
If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years.

Leviticus 25:52
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