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40 [1] AS A HIRED SERVANT, AND AS A SETTLER, HE SHALL BE WITH THEE. The meaning of this is that he [your brother who sold himself to you] shall not be with you in your house as a bondservant, but *as a laborer hired year by year* who hires himself out to do work as a freeman, and who is not subjected to heavy work; or [he is to be in your house] *as a settler*, for it is customary that settlers who come to sojourn in [another] land work for the head of the household with whom they reside to their satisfaction, similar to the case of Jacob with Laban, where [Laban] said [to Jacob], *Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?* And in the Torath Kohanim it is written: “*As a hired servant* — just as [in the case of] a hired servant *in the same day thou shalt give him his hire*, so too, this one must be given his hire in the same day. *As a settler* — just as [in the case of] a settler *he shall dwell with thee … where it liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him*, this one also *where it liketh him best; thou shalt not wrong him. — He shall be with thee*, with thee concerning [the same kind of] food, with thee concerning [the same kind of] drink, with thee concerning [the same kind of] clean garment, etc.”
Version: Commentary on the Torah by Ramban (Nachmanides). Translated and annotated by Charles B. Chavel. New York, Shilo Pub. House, 1971-1976
Source: https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002108945/NLI
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