'Servant' in the Bible

Instead, he is to serve with you like a hired servant or a traveler who lives with you, until the year of jubilee.

"He is to bring an accounting to the one who bought him, starting from the year he had sold himself until the year of jubilee. The price of his sale is to correspond to the number of years comparable to the time a hired servant stays with him.

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.