^25:16The more years there are,²⁶ the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are,²⁷ the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of²⁸ produce.

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Footnotes

26 Heb “To the mouth of the many years.”
27 Heb “to the mouth of the few years.”
28 Heb “a number of produce”; the words “years of” are implied. As an alternative this could be translated “a number of harvests” (cf. , ).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests.

NLTNew Living Translation

The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You must increase its price according to a greater number of years, but you must decrease its price according to a lesser number of years, because he is selling its yields to you.

KJV 1900King James Version

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

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