Text -- Leviticus 25:50-55 (NET)

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.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lev 25:50

¹ tn Heb “the years.”

² tn 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), 358-59.

NET Notes: Lev 25:51

¹ tn Heb “to the mouth of them.”

NET Notes: Lev 25:52

¹ tn Heb “but if a little remains in the years.”

NET Notes: Lev 25:53

¹ tn Heb “be with him”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “As a hired worker year in year.”

³ tn Heb “He”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

NET Notes: Lev 25:54

¹ tn Heb “And if.”

² tn Heb “go out.”

NET Notes: Lev 25:55

¹ tn Heb “because to me the sons of Israel are servants.”