Leviticus 25:53

53 He is to be treated as a man hired from year to year. You must make sure that his owner does not tyrannize him.

Leviticus 25:53 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:53

[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him
Being redeemable every year, and upon his redemption might quit his master's service, as an hireling may; and the price of his redemption to be valued according to the years he served, and as if he had been hired for so much a year; as well as he was to be treated in a kind and gentle manner, not as a bondman, but as if he was an hired servant, as follows: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight;
the person he is sold unto, his master, a sojourner or stranger, he might not use an Hebrew he had bought with any severity; for if an Hebrew master might not use an Hebrew servant with rigour, it was not by any means to be admitted in the commonwealth of Israel for a proselyte to use one in such a manner, and that openly, in the sight of an Israelite his neighbour; he looking on and not remonstrating against it, or acquainting the civil magistrate with it, who had it in his power to redress such a grievance, and ought to do it.

Leviticus 25:53 In-Context

51 If many years remain before the Jubilee, he must pay back a larger share of his purchase price,

52 but if only a few years remain until the Jubilee, he is to calculate his redemption price accordingly.

53 He is to be treated as a man hired from year to year. You must make sure that his owner does not tyrannize him.

54 "If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he goes free in the year of Jubilee, he and his children,

55 because the People of Israel are my servants, my servants whom I brought out of Egypt. I am God, your God.