Verse 50
He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.
Referenced Verses
- Isa 16:14 : 14 Now the LORD makes this announcement:“Within exactly three years Moab’s splendor will disappear, along with all her many people; there will be just a few, insignificant survivors left.”
- Isa 21:16 : 16 For this is what the Lord has told me:“Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.
- Lev 25:40 : 40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,
- Lev 25:53 : 53 He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
- Deut 15:18 : 18 You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
- Job 7:1-2 : 1 The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man? 2 Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,
- Job 14:6 : 6 Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.