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Leviticus 25:40-42
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Leviticus 25:40-42
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40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner;[a] he must serve with you until the Year of Jubilee, 41 but then[b] he may go free,[c] he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.[d] 42 Since the Israelites[e] are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.[f]
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- Leviticus 25:40 tn See the note on Lev 25:6 above.
- Leviticus 25:41 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.
- Leviticus 25:41 tn Heb “may go out from you.”
- Leviticus 25:41 tn Heb “fathers.”
- Leviticus 25:42 tn Heb “they”; the referent has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Leviticus 25:42 tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”
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