Leviticus 25:48

25:48 after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption.¹ One of his brothers may redeem him,

Leviticus 25:15

25:15 You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since² the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.³

Leviticus 25:23

25:23 The land must not be sold without reclaim⁴ because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.⁵

Leviticus 25:34

25:34 Moreover,⁶ the open field areas of their cities⁷ must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

Leviticus 25:39

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.⁸

Leviticus 25:42

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.⁹

Leviticus 25:14

25:14 If you make a sale¹⁰ to your fellow citizen¹¹ or buy¹² from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.¹³

Leviticus 25:16

25:16 The more years there are,¹⁴ the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are,¹⁵ the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of¹⁶ produce.

Leviticus 25:25

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.¹⁷

Leviticus 25:27

25:27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold,¹⁸ refund the balance¹⁹ to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

Leviticus 25:29

Release of Houses

25:29 “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city,²⁰ its right of redemption must extend²¹ until one full year from its sale;²² its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.²³

Leviticus 25:47

25:47 “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers²⁴ and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that²⁵ he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member²⁶ of a foreigner’s family,

Leviticus 25:50

25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years²⁷ 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.²⁸

Leviticus 27:20

27:20 If he does not redeem the field, but sells²⁹ the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.

Leviticus 27:27-28

27:27 If, however,³⁰ it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to³¹ its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value.

Things Permanently Dedicated to the Lord

27:28 “‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord³² from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord.

¹tn Heb “right of redemption shall be to him.”

²tn Heb “in the number of years after.”

³tn The words “that are left” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

³tn The term rendered “without reclaim” means that the land has been bought for the full price and is, therefore, not subject to reclaim under any circumstances. This was not to be done with land in ancient Israel (contrast the final full sale of houses in v. 30; see the evidence cited in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 174).

⁴tn That is, the Israelites were strangers and residents who were attached to the Lord’s household. They did not own the land. Note the parallel to the “priest’s lodger” in Lev 22:10.

⁴tn Heb “And.”

⁵sn 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 [JPSTC], 177).

⁵tn Heb “you shall not serve against him service of a slave.” A distinction is being made here between the status of slave and indentured servant.

⁶tn Or perhaps reflexive Niphal rather than passive, “they shall not sell themselves [as in] a slave sale.”

⁷tn Heb “sell a sale.”

⁸tn Or “to one of your countrymen” (NIV); NASB “to your friend.”

⁹tn The Hebrew infinitive absolute קָנֹה (qanoh, “buying”) substitutes for the finite verb here in sequence with the previous finite verb “sell” at the beginning of the verse (see GKC 345 §113.z).

¹⁰tn Heb “do not oppress a man his brother.” Here “brother” does not refer only to a sibling, but to a fellow Israelite.

⁸tn Heb “To the mouth of the many years.”

⁹tn Heb “to the mouth of the few years.”

¹⁰tn Heb “a number of produce”; the words “years of” are implied. As an alternative this could be translated “a number of harvests” (cf. NRSV, NLT).

⁹tn Heb “the sale of his brother.”

¹⁰tn Heb “and he shall calculate its years of sale.”

¹¹tn Heb “and return the excess.”

¹¹tn Heb “a house of a residence of a walled city.”

¹²tn Heb “shall be.”

¹³tn Heb “of its sale.”

¹⁴tn Heb “days its right of redemption shall be” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).

¹²tn Heb “And if the hand of a foreigner and resident with you reaches” (cf. v. 26 for this idiom).

¹³tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

¹⁴tn Heb “offshoot, descendant.”

¹³tn Heb “the years.”

¹⁴tn 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.

¹⁴tn Heb “and if he sells.”

¹⁵tn Heb “And if.”

¹⁶tn Heb “in” or “by.”

¹⁶tn Heb “Surely, any permanently dedicated [thing] which a man shall permanently dedicate to the Lord.” The Hebrew term חֵרֶם (kherem) refers to things that are devoted permanently to the Lord (see the note on v. 21 above).