25:25 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold. 2
25:47 “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers 3 and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that 4 he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member 5 of a foreigner’s family,
1 tn Heb “and you will not lift up on him sin.” The meaning of the line is somewhat obscure. It means either (1) that one should rebuke one’s neighbor when he sins lest one also becomes guilty, which is the way it is rendered here (see NIV, NRSV, NEB, JB; see also B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 129-30, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 303, and the discussion on pp. 316-17), or (2) one may rebuke one’s neighbor without incurring sin just as long as he does not hate him in his heart (see the first part of the verse; cf. NASB, NAB).
2 tn Heb “the sale of his brother.”
3 tn Heb “And if the hand of a foreigner and resident with you reaches” (cf. v. 26 for this idiom).
4 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
5 tn Heb “offshoot, descendant.”