Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Or, if there is but a small remainder of years, until the year of the jubilee, then shall he reckon to himself, according to the years thereof, shall he return his price of redemption. 53 As a servant hired year by year, shall he be with him, he shall not rule over him with rigour, before thine eyes. 54 But if he be not redeemed in any of these ways, then shall he go out in the jubilee year, he, and his sons with him.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:43
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour, - so shalt thou stand in awe of thy God.
Leviticus 25:46
and ye may take them as an inheritance for your sons after you to inherit as a possession, unto times age-abiding, of them, may ye take to be bondmen, - but, over your brethren the sons of Israel - a man over his brother, ye shall not rule, over him with rigour.