Bible verse
Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
Leviticus 25:40 · BSB
The verses around it, from Leviticus 25.
36 Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
37 You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
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.
43 You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
44 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
KJV
[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
ASV
As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:
ERV
as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubile:
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