If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him.
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If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him.
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And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
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And if he be not redeemed by any of these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Leviticus 25:54 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Exodus 21:2-3 “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything. If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he is married, then his wife shall go out with him.
- Leviticus 25:40-41 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee. Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
- Isaiah 49:9 saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
- Isaiah 49:25 But Yahweh says, “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the plunder retrieved from the fierce, for I will contend with him who contends with you and I will save your children.
- Isaiah 52:3 For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And if he be not redeemed in these years,....…
And if he be not redeemed in these years,.... The Targum of Jonathan supplies the text as we do, in any of the years from the time of his sale to the year of jubilee; and so Aben Ezra interprets it, in the years that remain to the jubilee; but he observes there are others that say, by the means of those above mentioned, that is, by his nearest of kin, or by himself; for the word "years" is not in the text, which may be supplied, either with "years" or "relations"; and so the Vulgate Latin, Septuagint, and Oriental versions read, "by these" means, things or persons:
then he shall go out on the year of jubilee: out of the house and service of him that bought him, he shall go out free and freely, without paying anything for his freedom, having served his full time unto which he was bought:
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both he and his children with him; and his wife too, if he had any, who, was comprehended in himself, and whom, both wife and children, his master was obliged to maintain during his servitude.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 54. And his children — No child in the…
54. And his children — No child in the land of Judea, whether Hebrew or heathen, was born to involuntary servitude because the father, or mother, or both, were servants; but every child of the house was born a member of the family, dependent on the master (not owner) for education and subsistence.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (54) If he be not redeemed in these years.—Better,…
(54) If he be not redeemed in these years.—Better, If he be not redeemed by these, that is, by the relations or the means indicated in Lev_25:48-49, he is to go out free in the year of jubile. (See Lev_25:41.) The heathen is to submit to the laws of jubile as much as the Hebrew.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Heb. "goel," Redemp. (Kinsman type).
redeemed
Heb. "goel," Redemp. (Kinsman type).
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(See Scofield "Isa 59:20").
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