Leviticus 25:6

25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce ¹  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ² 

Leviticus 25:40

25:40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; ³  he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

Leviticus 25:53

25:53 He must be with the one who bought him ⁴  like a yearly hired worker. ⁵  The one who bought him ⁶  must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

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¹ tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”

² tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.

³ tn See the note on Lev 25:6 above.

⁴ tn Heb “be with him”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Heb “As a hired worker year in year.”

⁶ tn Heb “He”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.