Leviticus 25:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ If the years are more, you shall increase the price, and if the years are fewer, you shall diminish the price, for it is a certain number of harvests that are being sold to you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ according to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ If the years [to the next Jubilee] are many, you may increase the price, and if the years remaining are few, you shall diminish the price, for the number of the crops is what he is selling to you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You will raise the price if there are more years, or lower the price if there are less years because it is the number of harvests that are being sold to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ The more years that will remain after the Jubilee, the more the price shall increase, and the less the time is numbered, so much less shall the purchase price be. For he will sell to you the time for the produce.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.

Leviticus 25:16 Cross References

Leviticus 25:15

When you buy from your neighbor, you shall pay only for the number of years until the Jubilee; the seller shall charge you only for the remaining crop years.

Leviticus 25:27

the years since its sale shall be computed and the difference refunded to the person to whom it was sold, and the property shall be returned.

Leviticus 25:51

If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price,

Leviticus 27:18

but if the field is consecrated after the Jubilee, the priest shall compute the price for it according to the years that remain until the year of Jubilee, and the assessment shall be reduced.