[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.