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Text -- Leviticus 25:29-55 (NET)
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Release of Houses
25:29 “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city , its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale ; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year .
25:30 If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended , the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations ; it will not revert in the jubilee .
25:31 The houses of villages , however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land ; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee .
25:32 As for the cities of the Levites , the houses in the cities which they possess , the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption .
25:33 Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem – the sale of a house which is his property in a city – must revert in the jubilee , because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites .
25:34 Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold , because that is their perpetual possession .
Debt and Slave Regulations
25:35 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you , you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident .
25:36 Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you.
25:37 You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit .
25:38 I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan – to be your God .
25:39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service .
25:40 He must be with you as a hired worker , as a resident foreigner ; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee ,
25:41 but then he may go free , he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors .
25:42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt , they must not be sold in a slave sale .
25:43 You must not rule over him harshly , but you must fear your God .
25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.
25:45 Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land , they may become your property .
25:46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property . You may enslave them perpetually . However, as for your brothers the Israelites , no man may rule over his brother harshly .
25:47 “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family ,
25:48 after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption . One of his brothers may redeem him,
25:49 or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives – his family – may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself .
25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year , and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years , according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.
25:51 If there are still many years , in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption ,
25:52 but if only a few years remain until the jubilee , he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption .
25:53 He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker . The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight .
25:54 If, however , he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year , he and his children with him,
25:55 because the Israelites are my own servants ; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt . I am the Lord your God .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Sabbath |
Jubilee |
Poor |
LEVITICUS, 1 |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
PENTATEUCH, 2B |
RANSOM |
Sabbatic Year |
AGRARIAN LAWS |
Israel |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
POVERTY |
Debtor |
Servant |
LOAN |
SLAVE |
LAW OF MOSES |
ODED |
SLAVE; SLAVERY |
Freedom |
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expand allCommentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes
NET Notes -> Lev 25:29; Lev 25:29; Lev 25:29; Lev 25:29; Lev 25:30; Lev 25:30; Lev 25:30; Lev 25:31; Lev 25:31; Lev 25:31; Lev 25:32; Lev 25:32; Lev 25:33; Lev 25:34; Lev 25:34; Lev 25:35; Lev 25:35; Lev 25:35; Lev 25:35; Lev 25:35; Lev 25:36; Lev 25:36; Lev 25:37; Lev 25:38; Lev 25:39; Lev 25:40; Lev 25:41; Lev 25:41; Lev 25:41; Lev 25:42; Lev 25:43; Lev 25:44; Lev 25:44; Lev 25:45; Lev 25:45; Lev 25:46; Lev 25:47; Lev 25:47; Lev 25:47; Lev 25:48; Lev 25:49; Lev 25:49; Lev 25:49; Lev 25:50; Lev 25:50; Lev 25:51; Lev 25:52; Lev 25:53; Lev 25:53; Lev 25:53; Lev 25:54; Lev 25:54; Lev 25:55
NET Notes: Lev 25:29 Heb “days its right of redemption shall be” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).
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NET Notes: Lev 25:33 Heb “And which he shall redeem from the Levites shall go out, sale of house and city, his property in the jubilee.” Although the end of th...
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NET Notes: Lev 25:34 This refers to the region of fields just outside and surrounding the city where cattle were kept and garden crops were grown (B. A. Levine, Leviticus ...
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NET Notes: Lev 25:35 Heb “a foreigner and resident,” which is probably to be combined (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71).
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NET Notes: Lev 25:36 In form the Hebrew term וְחֵי (vÿkhey, “shall live”) is the construct plural noun (i.e., “the lif...
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NET Notes: Lev 25:37 Heb “your money” and “your food.” With regard to “interest” and “profit” see the note on v. 36 above.
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NET Notes: Lev 25:39 Heb “you shall not serve against him service of a slave.” A distinction is being made here between the status of slave and indentured serv...
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NET Notes: Lev 25:42 Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”
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NET Notes: Lev 25:43 Heb “You shall not rule in him in violence”; cf. NASB “with severity”; NIV “ruthlessly.”
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NET Notes: Lev 25:44 Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”
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NET Notes: Lev 25:46 Heb “and your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man in his brother you shall not rule in him in violence.”
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NET Notes: Lev 25:50 Heb “as days of a hired worker he shall be with him.” For this and the following verses see the explanation in P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC...
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NET Notes: Lev 25:53 Heb “He”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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