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Leviticus 25:53 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 53. 53And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
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Role in This Section
This verse forbids the outsider master from ruthless rule over the Israelite worker.
Read It With
- Leviticus 25:47-55
Place Leviticus 25:53 inside 25:47-55. This verse forbids the outsider master from ruthless rule over the Israelite worker. Its surrounding procedure or case makes the larger point: A poor Israelite under a resident outsider may be redeemed by kin or self according to years until Jubilee, must be treated as a yearly worker, and goes free because Israelites are the LORD's servants from Egypt.
Why It Needs Context
Leviticus 25:53 forbids the outsider master from ruthless rule over the Israelite worker; reading it alone would sever that detail from the actors, category, and outcome in Leviticus 25:47-55.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Leviticus 25:47-55 — An Israelite sold to a prosperous outsider remains redeemableSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Leviticus 25:47-55, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Leviticus
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, ritual and legal vocabulary, names, clause relationships, KJV language controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 25:47-55
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