Leviticus 25:52

New Century Version

If there are only a few years left until Jubilee, the person must pay a small part of the first price.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

King James Version
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

Lexham English Bible
And if there are a few years left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate for himself; he shall restore his redemption according to the number of his years.

New English Translation
but if only a few years remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.

Amplified Bible
'And if only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he shall so calculate it with him. He is to refund the proportionate amount for his release.

New American Standard Bible
but if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.

Geneva Bible (1587)
If there remaine but fewe yeeres vnto the yeere of Iubile, then he shall count with him, and according to his yeeres giue againe for his redemption.

Legacy Standard Bible
and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he shall return the amount for his redemption.

Complete Jewish Bible
If there remain only a few years until the year of yovel, then he will calculate with him; according to his years will he refund the amount for his redemption.

Darby Translation
and if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his [remaining] years [of service] shall he give him back his redemption [money].

Easy-to-Read Version
If only a few years are left until the year of Jubilee, the one who was sold must pay a small part of the original price.

English Standard Version
If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.

George Lamsa Translation
And if there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

Christian Standard Bible®
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he will calculate and pay the price of his redemption in proportion to his remaining years.

Literal Translation
And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him according to his years he shall give back his redemption price.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf there remayne but few yeares vnto the yeare of Iubilye, then shall he geue agayne therafter for his redempcion.

American Standard Version
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

Bible in Basic English
And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If there remayne but fewe yeres vnto the yere of Iubilee, let hym count with hym agayne: and accordyng vnto his yeres, geue hym agayne for his redemption.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

King James Version (1611)
And if there remaine but few yeeres vnto the yeere of Iubile, then he shall count with him, and according vnto his yeeres shall he giue him againe the price of his redemption.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom

English Revised Version
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

Berean Standard Bible
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he schal sette rikenyng with hym bi the noumbre of yeeris;

Young's Literal Translation
`And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he hath reckoned with him, according to his years he doth give back his redemption [money];

Update Bible Version
And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years he shall give back the price of his redemption.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if there shall remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

World English Bible
If there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

New King James Version
And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption.

New Living Translation
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they will repay a small amount for their redemption.

New Life Bible
If there is only a few years until the Year of Jubilee, he will decide upon the amount of money with his owner. He should pay the price to be set free, decided upon by the number of years.

New Revised Standard
and if few years remain until the jubilee year, they shall compute thus: according to the years involved they shall make payment for their redemption.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Or, if there is but a small remainder of years, until the year of the jubilee, then shall he reckon to himself, according to the years thereof, shall he return his price of redemption.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years.

Revised Standard Version
If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.

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

jubilee: The jubilee was a wonderful institution, and of great service to the religion, freedom, and independence of the Hebrews. It was calculated to prevent the rich from oppressing the poor, and reducing them to perpetual slavery; and to hinder their obtaining possession of all the lands by purchase, mortgage, or usurpation. It was further intended, that debts should not be multiplied too much, lest the poor should be entirely ruined; that slaves should not always continue in servitude; that personal liberty, equality of property, and the regular order of families might, as much as possible, be preserved; and that the people might thus be strongly attached to their country, lands, and inheritances.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 27:18 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee,.... Fewer than what he has served, then the less is given for his redemption: thus, for instance, in the above supposed case, if he has served fifteen years, and there remain but five to the year of jubilee:

then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption; as in the fore mentioned case, he shall give him five pieces of money; and thus the law of justice and equity was maintained between the buyer and seller, the purchaser and the redeemer: in a like righteous manner the people of God are redeemed by Christ.

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.