•The strong Greek word doulos cannot be accurately translated in English as servant or bond servant; the HCSB translates this word as slave, not out of insensitivity to the legitimate concerns of modern English speakers, but out of a commitment to accurately convey the brutal reality of the Roman empire’s inhumane institution as well as the ownership called for by Christ.

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In other versions

When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenants to collect from them some of the fruit of the vineyard.

At harvest time he sent a servant to the farmers to collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from them.

At the time of the grape harvest, he sent one of his servants to collect his share of the crop.

And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers.

And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

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