Leviticus 25:48

New Century Version

the poor person has the right to be bought back and become free. One of his relatives may buy him back:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brothers may redeem him;

King James Version
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

Lexham English Bible
after he is sold redemption shall be for him; one of his brothers may redeem him,

New English Translation
after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,

Amplified Bible
then after he is sold he shall have the right of redemption. One of his relatives may redeem him:

New American Standard Bible
then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

Geneva Bible (1587)
After that he is solde, he may be bought out: one of his brethren may bye him out,

Legacy Standard Bible
then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

Contemporary English Version
you still have the right to be set free by a relative, such as a brother

Complete Jewish Bible
he may be redeemed after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him;

Darby Translation
after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.

Easy-to-Read Version
These people have the right to be bought back and become free. Someone from their own country can buy them back.

English Standard Version
then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,

George Lamsa Translation
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him;

Good News Translation
After they are sold, they still have the right to be bought back. A brother

Christian Standard Bible®
he has the right of redemption after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.

Literal Translation
after he has been sold, there is a redemption to him; one of his brothers may redeem him,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
(after that he is solde) to be redemed agayne. And eny of his brethren maye lowse him out:

American Standard Version
after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him;

Bible in Basic English
After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
After that he is solde, he may be redeemed agayne: one of his brethren may redeeme hym:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him;

King James Version (1611)
After that he is sold, hee may be redeemed againe: one of his brethren may redeeme him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his brethren shall redeem him.

English Revised Version
after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him:

Berean Standard Bible
he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ether to ony of his kyn, he may be ayenbouyt aftir the sillyng; he that wole of hise britheren, ayenbie hym; bothe `the brother of fadir,

Young's Literal Translation
after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth redeem him,

Update Bible Version
after he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brothers may redeem him;

Webster's Bible Translation
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

World English Bible
after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brothers may redeem him;

New King James Version
after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him;

New Living Translation
they still retain the right to be bought back, even after they have been purchased. They may be bought back by a brother,

New Life Bible
Then he may be made free after he has been sold. One of his brothers may pay the price to free him.

New Revised Standard
after they have sold themselves they shall have the right of redemption; one of their brothers may redeem them,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
after that he hath sold himself, a right of redemption, pertaineth to him, - one of his brethren, may redeem him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

Revised Standard Version
then after he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brothers may redeem him,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

Contextual Overview

³⁹ "‘If anyone from your country becomes very poor and sells himself as a slave to you, you must not make him work like a slave. ⁴⁰ He will be like a hired worker and a visitor with you until the year of Jubilee. ⁴¹ Then he may leave you, take his children, and go back to his family and the land of his ancestors. ⁴² This is because the Israelites are my servants, and I brought them out of slavery in Egypt. They must not become slaves again. ⁴³ You must not rule this person cruelly, but you must respect your God. ⁴⁴ "‘Your men and women slaves must come from other nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. ⁴⁵ Also you may buy as slaves children from the families of foreigners living in your land. These child slaves will belong to you, ⁴⁶ and you may even pass them on to your children after you die; you can make them slaves forever. But you must not rule cruelly over your own people, the Israelites. ⁴⁷ "‘Suppose a foreigner or visitor among you becomes rich. If someone in your country becomes so poor that he has to sell himself as a slave to the foreigner living among you or to a member of the foreigner's family, ⁴⁸ the poor person has the right to be bought back and become free. One of his relatives may buy him back:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 25:25, Leviticus 25:35, Nehemiah 5:5, Nehemiah 5:8, Galatians 4:4, Galatians 4:5, Hebrews 2:11-13

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:1 - the creditor Job 6:23 - Redeem Psalms 31:5 - thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again,.... Though an Heathen, sold to an Israelite, was to be a bondman for ever, and could not be released by the year of jubilee, yet an Israelite sold to an Heathen might be redeemed before, and if not, he was freed then. The Jewish writers understand this of an obligation upon the man, or his friends, or the congregation, to redeem him, and that immediately, as the Targum of Jonathan, and Jarchi, because of the danger he was in by being in the family of an idolater, lest he be polluted c, that is, with idolatry; or be swallowed up among the Heathens, as Maimonides d; but it is plain from Leviticus 25:54, that there was no obligation for an immediate redemption; nor was the person sold in such danger as suggested, since the sojourner, to whom he is supposed to be sold, was no idolater, whether a proselyte either of righteousness, or of the gate

one of his brethren may redeem him; which may be taken in a strict and proper sense, for any of his brethren who were in circumstances sufficient to redeem him, or for any near akin to him, as the following words seem to explain it. No mention is made of his father: the reason of which Abarbinel e says, because it cannot be thought that a father would suffer his son to be sold, if it was in his power to redeem him, since a father is pitiful to his son.

c Pesikta apud Drusium in loc. d Hilchot Abadim, c. 2. sect. 7. e Apud Muis. Varia Sacra, p. 373.

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.