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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 after that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition After he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brethren may redeem him: American Standard Version (1901) after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him; Common English Bible the Israelite will have the right to be bought back after they sold themselves. One of their relatives can buy them back: Catholic Public Domain Version after the sale, he is able to be redeemed. Whoever is willing among his brothers shall redeem him: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him: |
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!”
\{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!”
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!”
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.
“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.
“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.
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}.