Leviticus 25:50

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 16:14 : 14 Now the LORD makes this announcement:“Within exactly three years Moab’s splendor will disappear, along with all her many people; there will be just a few, insignificant survivors left.”
  • Isa 21:16 : 16 For this is what the Lord has told me:“Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.
  • Lev 25:40 : 40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,
  • Lev 25:53 : 53 He 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.
  • Deut 15:18 : 18 You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
  • Job 7:1-2 : 1 The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man? 2 Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,
  • Job 14:6 : 6 Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 25:51-54
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    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 25:39-42
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    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.

  • Lev 25:24-31
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    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.

  • Lev 25:10-16
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    10So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

    11That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

    12Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you– you may eat its produce from the field.

    13Release of Landed Property“‘In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

    14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

    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.

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

  • Lev 25:44-49
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    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,

    48after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,

    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.

  • 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.

  • Lev 27:23-24
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    23the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the LORD.

    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.

  • Lev 27:17-20
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    17If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, the conversion value will stand,

    18but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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    17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently(this applies to your female servant as well).

    18You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.

  • 13If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, he must add one fifth to its conversion value.

  • 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.

  • 8Regulations for the Jubilee Year of Release“‘You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.

  • 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.

  • 25Because he was not able to repay it, the lord ordered him to be sold, along with his wife, children, and whatever he possessed, and repayment to be made.

  • 30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

  • 19After a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled his accounts with them.

  • 44But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.

  • 15If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.