Leviticus 25:45
Context25:45 Also you may buy slaves 1 from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are 2 with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
Leviticus 25:50
Context25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years 3 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. 4


[25:45] 1 tn The word “slaves” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied here.
[25:45] 2 tn Heb “family which is” (i.e., singular rather than plural).
[25:50] 4 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.