If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.
Leviticus 25:51 - English Standard Version 2016 If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If there remain many years [before the Year of Jubilee], in proportion to them he must refund [to the purchaser] for his release [the overpayment] for his acquisition. American Standard Version (1901) If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. Common English Bible If there are many years left before the Jubilee, the Israelite will pay for their purchase in proportion to their purchase price. Catholic Public Domain Version If there will have been many years which remain until the Jubilee, according to these shall he also repay the price. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price. |
If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.
And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.
He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.
If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.
but if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.