Leviticus 25:41

25:41 but then ¹  he may go free, ²  he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors. ³ 

Leviticus 20:5

20:5 I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, ⁴  to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech. ⁵ 

Leviticus 25:45

25:45 Also you may buy slaves ⁶  from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are ⁷  with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

Leviticus 25:47

25:47 “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers ⁸  and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that ⁹  he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member ¹⁰  of a foreigner’s family,

Leviticus 25:49

25:49 or his uncle or his cousin ¹¹  may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives – his family ¹²  – may redeem him, or if ¹³  he prospers he may redeem himself.

Leviticus 25:10

25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, ¹⁴  and you must proclaim a release ¹⁵  in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; ¹⁶  each one of you must return ¹⁷  to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

[25:41]  ¹ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.

[25:41]  ² tn Heb “may go out from you.”

[25:41]  ³ tn Heb “fathers.”

[20:5]  ⁴ tn The adjective “spiritual” has been supplied in the translation to clarify that this is not a reference to literal prostitution, but figuratively compares idolatry to prostitution.

[20:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “to commit harlotry after Molech.” The translation employs “worshiping” here for clarity (cf. NAB, NCV, TEV, CEV, NLT). On the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.

[25:45]  ⁷ tn The word “slaves” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied here.

[25:45]  ⁸ tn Heb “family which is” (i.e., singular rather than plural).

[25:47]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “And if the hand of a foreigner and resident with you reaches” (cf. v. 26 for this idiom).

[25:47]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.

[25:47]  ¹² tn Heb “offshoot, descendant.”

[25:49]  ¹³ tn Heb “the son of his uncle.”

[25:49]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “or from the remainder of his flesh from his family.”

[25:49]  ¹⁵ tc The LXX, followed by the Syriac, actually has “if,” which is not in the MT.

[25:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).

[25:10]  ¹⁷ 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]  ¹⁸ 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]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”