25:39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. 1 25:40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; 2 he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,
1 tn Heb “you shall not serve against him service of a slave.” A distinction is being made here between the status of slave and indentured servant.
2 tn See the note on Lev 25:6 above.
3 tn Heb “You shall not rule in him in violence”; cf. NASB “with severity”; NIV “ruthlessly.”