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Leviticus 25:50

in Leviticus 25

He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.

KJV

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

This verse in Leviticus 25

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The ransom money was determined on a most equitable principle. Taking account of the number of years from the proposal to redeem and the Jubilee, of the current wages of labor for that time, and multiplying the remaining years by that sum, the amount was to be paid to the master for his redemption.

This site's exposition

he shall reckon with him that bought him

on Leviticus 25:50-52

The ransom is arithmetic. Years are counted from the sale to the jubile and priced at the wage of a hired servant, so what changes hands is the value of the work left in him. It is the calculation the chapter used on a field at verses 15 and 16, applied to a person, and it protects the buyer as well as the man being redeemed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

According to the time of an hired servant - Allowance shall be made for the time wherein he hath served, proportionable to that which is given to an hired servant for so long service, because his condition is in this like theirs; it is not properly his person, but his work and labour that was sold.

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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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The price of his sale shall be, etc. - This was a very equitable law, both for the sojourner to whom the man was sold, and to the Israelite who had been thus sold. The Israelite might redeem himself, or one of his kindred might redeem him; but this must not be done to the prejudice of his master, the sojourner.

The words behind it

18 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.

  • וְחִשַּׁב֙and he will calculate

    vechishavH2803124 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H59731050 times

  • קֹנֵ֔הוּ[the] [one who] bought him

    konehuH706984 times

  • מִשְּׁנַת֙from [the] year

    mishenatH8141877 times

  • הִמָּ֣כְרוֹhe sold himself

    himakherovH437680 times

  • ל֔וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • עַ֖דuntil

    ʾadH57041261 times

  • שְׁנַ֣ת[the] year of

    shenatH8141877 times

  • הַיֹּבֵ֑לthe jubilee

    haiyovelH310427 times

  • וְהָיָ֞הand it will be

    vehayahH19613559 times

  • כֶּ֤סֶף[the] silver of

    kesefH3701403 times

  • מִמְכָּרוֹ֙sale his

    mikaroH446510 times

  • בְּמִסְפַּ֣רby [the] number of

    bemisparH4557134 times

  • שָׁנִ֔יםyears

    shanimH8141877 times

  • כִּימֵ֥יaccording to [the] days of

    kimeiH31172304 times

  • שָׂכִ֖ירa hired laborer

    sakhirH791617 times

  • יִהְיֶ֥הhe will be

    yihyehH19613559 times

  • עִמּֽוֹ׃with him

    imoH59731050 times

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

The walk

8 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

    Isaiah 21:16

    For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 16:14

      And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 60:7

      All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will serve you and go up on My altar with acceptance; I will adorn My glorious house.

    • Psalms 120:5

      Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

    • Song of Solomon 1:5

      I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

    • Ezekiel 27:21

      Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.

  • Through

    Isaiah 16:14

    And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 21:16

      For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 48:46–47

      Woe to you, O Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished; for your sons have been taken into exile and your daughters have gone into captivity.

  • Through

    Leviticus 25:40

    Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 21:2–3

      If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

Where this verse is studied

About Leviticus

Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.