Leviticus 25:48

Easy To Read Version

That person will have the right to be bought back {and become free}. One of his brothers [437] can buy him back.

Cross References

2 Kings 4:1

A man from the group of prophets [22] had a wife. {This man died.} His wife cried out to Elisha, “My husband was like a servant to you. Now my husband is dead! You know he honored the Lord. But he owed money to a man. And now that man is coming to take my two boys and make them his slaves!”

Nehemiah 5:5

\{Look at those rich people!\} We are as good as they are. Our sons are as good as their sons. But we will have to sell our sons and daughters as slaves. Some of us have already had to sell our daughters as slaves! There is nothing we can do! We already lost our fields and vineyards! Other people own them now!”

Nehemiah 5:8

And I said to those people, “Our Jewish brothers were sold as slaves to people in other countries. We did our best to buy them back and make them free. And now, you are selling them like slaves again!”

Leviticus 25:25

A person in your country might become very poor. He might be so poor that he must sell his property. So his close relative must come and buy back the property for his relative.

Leviticus 25:35

“Maybe a person from your own country [431] will become too poor to support himself. You must let him live with you like a visitor.

Leviticus 25:47

“Maybe a foreigner or visitor among you will become rich. Maybe a person from your own country [436] will become poor, so that he sells himself as a slave to a foreigner living among you or to a member of a foreigner’s family.

Leviticus 25:49

Or his uncle or his cousin can buy him back. Or one of his close relatives from his family can buy him back. Or if the person gets enough money, he can pay the money himself {and become free again}.