Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity.
New American Standard Bible
Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him;
King James Version
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
Holman Bible
He will stay with him like a man hired year by year. A foreign owner is not to rule over him harshly in your sight.
A Conservative Version
He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
American Standard Version
As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
Amplified
Like a man hired year by year he shall deal with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness in your sight.
Bible in Basic English
And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.
Darby Translation
As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; his master shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes.
Julia Smith Translation
As the hireling of the year by the year shall he be with him: he shall not rule him by crushing to thine eyes.
King James 2000
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
Lexham Expanded Bible
He shall be with him {as a yearly hired worker}; he shall not rule over him with ruthlessness {in your sight}.
Modern King James verseion
As a yearly hired servant he shall be with him; he shall not rule with harshness in your sight.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and shall be with him year by year as a hired servant, and the other shall not reign cruelly over him in thy sight.
NET Bible
He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
New Heart English Bible
As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
The Emphasized Bible
As a servant hired year by year, shall he be with him, he shall not rule over him with rigour, before thine eyes.
Webster
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
World English Bible
As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
Youngs Literal Translation
as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.
Themes
Redemption » Typified » Bond-servant
Servant » Bond » Laws of moses concerning
Servant » Hired » Treatment of, more considerate than that of slaves
Servants » Hired » Hebrew slaves serving strangers to be treated as
Interlinear
Radah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 25:53
Verse Info
Context Readings
Redeeming A Poor Man
52 But if only a few years are left until the year of jubilee, he is to bring an accounting of the years that he is to refund for his redemption. 53 Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity. 54 If he isn't redeemed by these, then he is to be set free in the year of jubilee he and his children with him
Cross References
Leviticus 25:43
You are not to rule over them with harshness. You are to fear your God."
Leviticus 25:46
You may give them as inherited property to your children after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israeli with harshness.