⁵⁰ They shall compute with the purchaser the total from the year when they sold themselves to the alien until the Jubilee year; the price of the sale shall be applied to the number of years: the time they were with the owner shall be rated as the time of a hired laborer.^(A)

¹⁶ For thus the Lord said to me: “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end,^(A)

¹⁴ But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”^(A)

Job: My Suffering Is without End

¹⁸ “Do not consider it a hardship when you send them out from you free persons, because for six years they have given you services worth the wages of hired laborers, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.

⁵³ As a laborer hired by the year they shall be under the alien’s authority, who shall not, however, rule with harshness over them in your sight.

⁴⁰ They shall remain with you as hired or bound laborers. They shall serve with you until the year of the Jubilee.