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Leviticus 25:47

in Leviticus 25

If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family;

KJV

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:

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This verse in Leviticus 25

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
A sojourner or stranger - Rather, a foreigner who has settled among you. See Lev 16:29, note; Exo 20:10, note. Lev 25:54 In these years - More properly, by one of these means. The extreme period of servitude in this case was six years, as when the master was a Hebrew Exo 21:2. Looking at the law of the Jubilee from a simply practical point of view, its operation must have tended to remedy those evils which are always growing up in the ordinary conditions of human society.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

So the word root is elsewhere used for the branch or progeny growing from it. He seems to note one of a foreign race and country, transplanted into the land of Israel, and there having taken root amongst the people of God, yet even such an one, though he hath some privilege by it, shall not have power to keep an Hebrew servant from the benefit of redemption.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

1 And the L ORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the L ORD .

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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee,....

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְכִ֣יand if

    vekhiH3588 →4482 times

  • תַשִּׂ֗יגit will reach

    tasigH5381 →50 times

  • יַ֣ד[the] hand of

    yadH3027 →1618 times

  • גֵּ֤רa sojourner

    gerH1616 →92 times

  • וְתוֹשָׁב֙and a resident alien

    vetoshavH8453 →14 times

  • עִמָּ֔ךְwith you

    ʾimakhH5973 →1050 times

  • וּמָ֥ךְand he will become impoverished

    umakhH4134 →5 times

  • אָחִ֖יךָbrother your

    ʾachikhaH251 →630 times

  • עִמּ֑וֹwith him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • וְנִמְכַּ֗רand he will sell himself

    venimkarH4376 →80 times

  • לְגֵ֤רto a sojourner

    legerH1616 →92 times

  • תּוֹשָׁב֙a resident alien

    toshavH8453 →14 times

  • עִמָּ֔ךְwith you

    ʾimakhH5973 →1050 times

  • א֥וֹor

    ʾoH176 →321 times

  • לְעֵ֖קֶרto a member of

    leekerH6133 →

  • מִשְׁפַּ֥חַת[the] clan of

    mishpachatH4940 →303 times

  • גֵּֽר׃a sojourner

    gerH1616 →92 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

6 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    James 2:5

    Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?

    it leads to

    • Matthew 5:3

      “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

    • Luke 6:20

      Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

    • Revelation 2:9

      I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

    • 1 Corinthians 1:26–28

      Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth.

    • 2 Corinthians 8:9

      For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

  • Through

    Leviticus 25:26

    Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 5:7

      If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt…

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
The Scapegoat, William Holman Hunt, 1854. Public domain.
Leviticus: the study guide →Read Leviticus 25 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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