Leviticus 25:51

New American Standard Bible (1995)

'If there are still many years, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

King James Version
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

Lexham English Bible
If there are still many years, in keeping with them he shall restore his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

New Century Version
If there are still many years before the year of Jubilee, the person must pay back a large part of the price.

New English Translation
If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,

Amplified Bible
'If there are still many years [before the Year of Jubilee], in proportion to them he must refund [to the purchaser] part of the price of his sale for his redemption and release.

New American Standard Bible
'If there are still many years remaining, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

Geneva Bible (1587)
If there be many yeeres behind, according to them he shall giue againe for his deliuerance, of the money that he was bought for.

Legacy Standard Bible
If there are still many years, he shall return part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

Contemporary English Version
The longer the time until then, the more you will have to pay.

Complete Jewish Bible
If many years remain, according to them will he refund the amount for his redemption from the amount he was bought for.

Darby Translation
If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption [money] out of the money that he was bought for;

Easy-to-Read Version
If there are still many years before the year of Jubilee, the one sold must give back a large part of the price. It all depends on the number of years.

English Standard Version
If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.

George Lamsa Translation
If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

Good News Translation
They must refund a part of the purchase price according to the number of years left,

Christian Standard Bible®
If many years are still left, he must pay his redemption price in proportion to them based on his purchase price.

Literal Translation
If there are yet many years, by mouth he shall give back his redemption, from the silver of his purchase.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf there be yet many yeares vnto ye yeare of Iubilye, then shal he (acordinge to the same) geue the more for his delyueraunce, therafter as he is solde.

American Standard Version
If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

Bible in Basic English
If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If there be yet many yeres behynde, accordyng vnto them let hym geue againe for his deliueraunce, of the money that he was bought for.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

King James Version (1611)
If there be yet many yeeres behinde, according vnto them hee shall giue againe the price of his redemption, out of the money that hee was bought for.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if any have a greater number of years than enough, according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money.

English Revised Version
If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

Berean Standard Bible
If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If mo yeeris ben that dwellen `til to the iubilee, bi these yeeris he schal yelde also the prijs; if fewe yeeris ben,

Young's Literal Translation
`If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption [money], from the money of his purchase.

Update Bible Version
If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

Webster's Bible Translation
If [there shall be] yet many years [behind], according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

World English Bible
If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

New King James Version
If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought.

New Living Translation
If many years still remain until the jubilee, they will repay the proper proportion of what they received when they sold themselves.

New Life Bible
If there are still many years, he will return a part of the price which was given for him.

New Revised Standard
If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If there is yet a multitude of years, according to them, shall he return, as his redemption price, of the silver of him that bought him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.

Revised Standard Version
If there are still many years, according to them he shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption.

Contextual Overview

³⁹ 'If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service. ⁴⁰ 'He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. ⁴¹ 'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers. ⁴² 'For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale. ⁴³ 'You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God. ⁴⁴ 'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. ⁴⁵ 'Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession. ⁴⁶ 'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another. ⁴⁷ 'Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger's family, ⁴⁸ then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:24 - redemption Leviticus 27:18 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If [there be] yet many years behind,.... To the year of jubilee, and more than he had served:

according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption, out of the money that he was bought for; suppose, for instance, when a man sold himself, there were twenty years to the year of jubilee, and he sold himself for twenty pieces of money, gold or silver, be the value what it will; and when he comes to treat with his master about his redemption, or a relation for him, and he has served just as many years as there are to the year of jubilee, ten years, then his master must be paid for the price of his redemption ten pieces of money; but if he has served but five years, and there are fifteen to come, he must give him fifteen pieces; and so in proportion, be the years more or fewer, as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A sojourner or stranger - Rather, a foreigner who has settled among you. See Leviticus 16:29, note; Exodus 20:10, note.

Leviticus 25:54

In these years - More properly, by one of these means. The extreme period of servitude in this case was six years, as when the master was a Hebrew Exodus 21:2.

Looking at the law of the Jubilee from a simply practical point of view, its operation must have tended to remedy those evils which are always growing up in the ordinary conditions of human society. It prevented the permanent accumulation of land in the hands of a few, and periodically raised those whom fault or misfortune had sunk into poverty to a position of competency. It must also have tended to keep alive family feeling, and helped to preserve the family genealogies.

But in its more special character, as a law given by Yahweh to His special people, it was a standing lesson to those who would rightly regard it, on the terms upon which the enjoyment of the land of promise had been conferred upon them. All the land belonged to Yahweh as its supreme Lord, every Israelite as His vassal belonged to Him. The voice of the Jubilee horns, twice in every century, proclaimed the equitable and beneficent social order appointed for the people; they sounded that acceptable year of Yahweh which was to bring comfort to all that mourned, in which the slavery of sin was to be abolished, and the true liberty of God’s children was to be proclaimed Luke 2:25; Isaiah 61:2; Luke 4:19; Acts 3:21; Romans 8:19-23; 1 Peter 1:3-4.