⁵⁰ They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee.^(A) The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker^(B) for that number of years.

¹⁶ This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract^(A) would count it, all the splendor^(B) of Kedar^(C) will come to an end.

¹⁴ But now the Lord says: “Within three years,^(A) as a servant bound by contract^(B) would count them,^(C) Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised,^(D) and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”^(E)

¹⁸ Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

⁵³ They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.^(A)

⁴⁰ They are to be treated as hired workers^(A) or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.