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As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.
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Verse 40. Hireling, who has engaged to work for a term of years, either of six, or at most 49. After the year of the jubilee, he might enter into fresh engagements with his late master. Bible.—The Hebrews have always hated slavery. We have never been slaves to any. John 8:33. They were not allowed to part with their liberty, except from absolute distress; (Maimonides) and then they do not submit to what they call intrinsical slavery.—Children. His wife and children were not made slaves of him. But if his master gave him a second wife, her children belonged to their common master. Seld. Jur. vi. 1.
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