THEOSISLeviticus 25:50Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant.
וְחִשַּׁב֙ עִם־קֹנֵ֔הוּ מִשְּׁנַת֙ הִמָּ֣כְרוֹ ל֔וֹ עַ֖ד שְׁנַ֣ת הַיֹּבֵ֑ל וְהָיָ֞ה כֶּ֤סֶף מִמְכָּרוֹ֙ בְּמִסְפַּ֣ר שָׁנִ֔ים כִּימֵ֥י שָׂכִ֖יר יִהְיֶ֥ה עִמּֽוֹ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Isa 16:14And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not many.
- Isa 21:16For thus saith the Lord to me: Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Cedar shall be taken away.
- Deut 15:18Turn not away thy eyes from them when thou makest them free: because he hath served thee six years according to the wages of a hireling: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works that thou dost.
- Lev 25:53His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.
- Lev 25:40But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.
- Job 7:1The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
- Job 7:2As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;
- Job 14:6Depart a little from him, that he may rest until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.