Leviticus 25:40

25:40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; ¹  he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

Leviticus 25:5

25:5 You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned ²  vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.

Leviticus 25:11

25:11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. ³ 

Leviticus 25:29

Release of Houses

25:29 “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, ⁴  its right of redemption must extend ⁵  until one full year from its sale; ⁶  its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year. ⁷ 

Leviticus 25:50

25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years ⁸  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. ⁹ 

Leviticus 25:52

25:52 but if only a few years remain ¹⁰  until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.

Leviticus 27:23

27:23 the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay ¹¹  the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the Lord.

Leviticus 25:10

25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, ¹²  and you must proclaim a release ¹³  in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; ¹⁴  each one of you must return ¹⁵  to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

Leviticus 25:28

25:28 If he has not prospered enough to refund ¹⁶  a balance to him, then what he sold ¹⁷  will belong to ¹⁸  the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert ¹⁹  in the jubilee and the original owner ²⁰  may return to his property.

Leviticus 27:18

27:18 but if ²¹  he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price ²²  for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

[25:40]  ¹ tn See the note on Lev 25:6 above.

[25:5]  ² tn Heb “consecrated, devoted, forbidden” (נָזִיר, nazir). The same term is used for the “consecration” of the “Nazirite” (and his hair, Num 6:2, 18, etc.), a designation which, in turn, derives from the very same root.

[25:11]  ³ tn Heb “you shall not sow and you shall not…and you shall not….”

[25:29]  ⁴ tn Heb “a house of a residence of a walled city.”

[25:29]  ⁵ tn Heb “shall be.”

[25:29]  ⁶ tn Heb “of its sale.”

[25:29]  ⁷ tn Heb “days its right of redemption shall be” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).

[25:50]  ⁵ tn Heb “the years.”

[25:50]  ⁶ 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.

[25:52]  ⁶ tn Heb “but if a little remains in the years.”

[27:23]  ⁷ tn Heb “give” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NLT).

[25:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).

[25:10]  ⁹ tn Cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “liberty”; TEV, CEV “freedom.” The characteristics of this “release” are detailed in the following verses. For substantial summaries and bibliography on the biblical and ancient Near Eastern material regarding such a “release” see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 427-34, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 270-74.

[25:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “A jubilee that shall be to you.” Although there has been some significant debate about the original meaning of the Hebrew word translated “jubilee” (יוֹבֵל, yovel; see the summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 434), the term most likely means “ram” and can refer also to a “ram’s horn.” The fiftieth year would, therefore, be called the “jubilee” because of the associated sounding of the “ram’s horn” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 172, and the literature cited there).

[25:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”

[25:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “And if his hand has not found sufficiency of returning.” Although some versions take this to mean that he has not made enough to regain the land (e.g., NASB, NRSV; see also B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176), the combination of terms in Hebrew corresponds to the portion of v. 27 that refers specifically to refunding the money (cf. v. 27; see NIV and G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 315).

[25:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “his sale.”

[25:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “will be in the hand of.” This refers to the temporary control of the one who purchased its produce until the next year of jubilee, at which time it would revert to the original owner.

[25:28]  ¹² tn Heb “it shall go out” (so KJV, ASV; see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).

[25:28]  ¹³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the original owner of the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And if.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.

[27:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the silver.”