Leviticus 25:8

Regulations for the Jubilee Year of Release

25:8 “‘You must count off ¹  seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, ²  and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years. ³ 

Leviticus 25:6

25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce ⁴  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ⁵ 

Leviticus 25:15

25:15 You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since ⁶  the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. ⁷ 

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 9:2

9:2 and said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the Lord.

Leviticus 21:8

21:8 You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the Lord who sanctifies you all, ⁹  am holy.

Leviticus 25:16

25:16 The more years there are, ¹⁰  the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, ¹¹  the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of ¹²  produce.

Leviticus 25:44

25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves ¹³  who may belong to you – you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. ¹⁴ 

Leviticus 10:15

10:15 The thigh of the contribution offering and the breast of the wave offering they must bring in addition to the gifts of the fat parts to wave them as a wave offering before the Lord, and it will belong to you and your sons with you for a perpetual statute just as the Lord has commanded.”

¹ tn Heb “And you shall count off for yourself.”

² tn Heb “seven years seven times.”

³ tn Heb “and they shall be for you, the days of the seven Sabbaths of years, forty-nine years.”

⁴ tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”

⁵ tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.

⁷ tn Heb “in the number of years after.”

⁸ tn The words “that are left” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

¹⁰ tn 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.

¹³ tn The three previous second person references in this verse are all singular, but this reference is plural. By adding “all” this grammatical distinction is preserved in the translation.

¹⁶ tn Heb “To the mouth of the many years.”

¹⁷ tn Heb “to the mouth of the few years.”

¹⁸ tn 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).

¹⁹ tn Heb “And your male slave and your female slave.” Smr has these as plural terms, “slaves,” not singular.

²⁰ tn Heb “ from the nations which surround you, from them you shall buy male slave and female slave.”