^25:47“ ‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers⁸⁷ and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that⁸⁸ he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member⁸⁹ of a foreigner’s family, ^25:48after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption.⁹⁰ One of his brothers may redeem him, ^25:49or his uncle or his cousin⁹¹ may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives—his family⁹²—may redeem him, or if⁹³ he prospers he may redeem himself. ^25:50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years⁹⁴ 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.⁹⁵^25:51If there are still many years, in keeping with them⁹⁶ he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption, ^25:52but if only a few years remain⁹⁷ until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption. ^25:53He must be with the one who bought him⁹⁸ like a yearly hired worker.⁹⁹ The one who bought him¹⁰⁰ must not rule over him harshly in your sight. ^25:54If, however,¹⁰¹ he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free¹⁰² in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

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Footnotes

87 Heb “And if the hand of a foreigner and resident with you reaches” (cf. v. 26 for this idiom).
88 Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
89 Heb “offshoot, descendant.”
90 Heb “right of redemption shall be to him.”
91 Heb “the son of his uncle.”
92 Heb “or from the remainder of his flesh from his family.”
93 The , followed by the , actually has “if,” which is not in the .
94 Heb “the years.”
95 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 (), 358–59.
96 Heb “to the mouth of them.”
97 Heb “but if a little remains in the years.”
98 Heb “be with him”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
99 Heb “As a hired worker year in year.”
100 Heb “He”; the referent (the one who bought him) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
101 Heb “And if.”
102 Heb “go out.”