But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
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Gill's Exposition
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…
The law here appears harmoniously to supplement the earlier one in Exo 21:1-6. It was another check applied periodically to the tyranny of the rich. Compare Jer 34:8-17.
We have here the laws concerning servitude, designed to preserve the honour of the Jewish nation as a free people, and rescued by a divine power out of the house of bondage, into the glorious liberty…
Prohibition of permanent servitude of one Israelite to another(H and P mixed, the former probably preponderating)
This case was to be subject to the operation of the law of Jubile, Moreover, the…