Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
Shaneh (in pl. only),
Radah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 25:53
Verse Info
Context Readings
Redeeming A Poor Man
52 And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him. He shall give back the price of his redemption according to his years. 53 He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight. 54 And if he is not redeemed by these [means], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his sons with him.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:43
Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.
Leviticus 25:46
And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take them your bondmen forever, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.