Leviticus 25:48
after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,
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- Neh 5:5 : 5 And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
- Neh 5:8 : 8 I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.
- Gal 4:4-5 : 4 But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.
- Heb 2:11-13 : 11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, 12 saying,“I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you.” 13 Again he says,“I will be confident in him,” and again,“Here I am, with the children God has given me.”
- Lev 25:25 : 25 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.
- Lev 25:35 : 35 Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.
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- Lev 25:49-546 verses88%
49or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives– his family– may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself.
50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years 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.
51If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,
52but 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.
53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,
- Lev 25:24-3310 verses86%
24In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.
25“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.
26If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,
27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.
29Release of Houses“‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.
30If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.
31The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.
32As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.
33Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem– the sale of a house which is his property in a city– must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.
- Lev 25:44-474 verses82%
44“‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you– you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.
45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.
47“‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,
- Lev 25:39-424 verses77%
39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.
40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,
41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.
- Deut 15:2-32 verses74%
2This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as“the LORD’s cancellation of debts.”
3You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.
- Deut 15:12-132 verses74%
12Release of Debt Slaves If your fellow Hebrew– whether male or female– is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.
13If you set them free, you must not send them away empty-handed.
- Ps 49:7-82 verses73%
7Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price
8(the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),
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35Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.
- Lev 27:19-202 verses71%
19If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price and it will belong to him.
20If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.
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15You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.
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14“Every seven years each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you for six years, you shall set them free.” But your ancestors did not obey me or pay any attention to me.
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27If, however, it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value.
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10and if he has no brothers, then you are to give his inheritance to his father’s brothers;
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8If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.
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6The guardian said,“Then I am unable to redeem it, for I would ruin my own inheritance in that case. You may exercise my redemption option, for I am unable to redeem it.”
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2Hebrew Servants“If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.
- Ruth 4:3-42 verses69%
3Then Boaz said to the guardian,“Naomi, who has returned from the region of Moab, is selling the portion of land that belongs to our relative Elimelech.
4So I am legally informing you: Acquire it before those sitting here and before the leaders of my people! If you want to exercise your right to redeem it, then do so. But if not, then tell me so I will know. For you possess the first option to redeem it; I am next in line after you.” He replied,“I will redeem it.”
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48And give the money for the redemption of the excess number of them to Aaron and his sons.”
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5Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
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5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
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8I said to them,“To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!” They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.
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11For the LORD will rescue the descendants of Jacob. He will secure their release from those who had overpowered them.
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2If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.
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24In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.
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15If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.