Discovery BoxLeviticus 25:6 
Context25:6 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
Context25:40 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
Context25:53 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.
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.
