◄ Leviticus 25:48 ►
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Good News Translation
After they are sold, they still have the right to be bought back. A brother

New Revised Standard Version
after they have sold themselves they shall have the right of redemption; one of their brothers may redeem them,

Contemporary English Version
you still have the right to be set free by a relative, such as a brother

New American Bible
even after having sold themselves, they still may be redeemed by one of their kindred,

Douay-Rheims Bible
After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

Leviticus 25:25,35 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold. . . .

Nehemiah 5:5,8 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess. . . .

Galatians 4:4,5 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law: . . .

Hebrews 2:11-13 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying: . . .

Context
Redemption of Servants
47If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race: 48After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:49Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself:…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:47
If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:

Leviticus 25:49
Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself:

2 Kings 4:1
Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him.

Nehemiah 5:8
And I said to them: We, as you know, have redeemed according to our ability our brethren the Jews, that were sold to the Gentiles: and will you then sell your brethren, for us to redeem them? And they held their peace, and found not what to answer.

Leviticus 25:47
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