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Leviticus 25:39-41
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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.[a] 40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner;[b] he must serve with you until the Year of Jubilee, 41 but then[c] he may go free,[d] he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.[e]

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  1. Leviticus 25:39 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. Leviticus 25:40 tn See the note on Lev 25:6 above.
  3. Leviticus 25:41 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.
  4. Leviticus 25:41 tn Heb “may go out from you.”
  5. Leviticus 25:41 tn Heb “fathers.”
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