They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. The Israelite debt-slave is treated as a hired worker or temporary resident — not as a permanent slave. The work-until-the-Jubilee provision makes the Jubilee the maximum period of Israelite debt-service: no Israelite can be held in debt-slavery beyond the Jubilee year, regardless of the debt amount or the length of service.

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