Levítico 25:40

40 "Estará contigo como jornalero, como si fuera un peregrino; él servirá contigo hasta el año de jubileo.

Levítico 25:40 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:40

[But] as an hired servant
Who is hired by the day, or month, or year; and, when his time is up, receives his wages and goes where he pleases, and while a servant is not under such despotic power and government as a slave is: [and] as a sojourner;
an inmate, one that dwells in part of a man's house, or boards and lodges with him, and whom he treats in a kind and familiar manner, rather like one of his own family than otherwise: he shall be with thee;
as under the above characters, and used as such: this the Jews refer to food and drink, and other things, as they do, ( Deuteronomy 15:16 ) ; and say ^F17 that a master might not eat fine bread, and his servant bread of bran; nor drink old wine, and his servant new; nor sleep on soft pillows and bedding, and his servant on straw: hence, they say ^F18, he that gets himself an Hebrew servant is as if he got himself a master: [and] shall serve thee unto the year of the jubilee;
and no longer; for if the year of jubilee came before the six years were expired for which he sold himself, the jubilee set him free, as Jarchi observes; nay, if be sold himself for ten or twenty years, and that but one year before the jubilee, it set him free, as Maimonides says ^F19.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Maimon. in Misn. Kiddushin, c. 1. sect. 2.
F18 Ibid.
F19 Hilchot Abadim, c. 2. sect. 3.

Levítico 25:40 In-Context

38 "Yo soy el SEÑOR vuestro Dios, que os saqué de la tierra de Egipto para daros la tierra de Canaán y para ser vuestro Dios.

39 "Y si un hermano tuyo llega a ser tan pobre para contigo que se vende a ti, no lo someterás a trabajo de esclavo.

40 "Estará contigo como jornalero, como si fuera un peregrino; él servirá contigo hasta el año de jubileo.

41 "Entonces saldrá libre de ti, él y sus hijos con él, y volverá a su familia, para que pueda regresar a la propiedad de sus padres.

42 "Porque ellos son mis siervos, los cuales saqué de la tierra de Egipto; no serán vendidos en venta de esclavos.