A sojourner or stranger — Rather, a foreigner who has settled among you. See Leviticus 16:29, note; Exodus 20:10, note.

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And he shall reckon with him. —That is, either the man himself when he is able to redeem himself, or his relatives. The authoritie…

And if there remain but few years until the year of jubilee ,
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A native Israelite, if sold for debt or for a crime, was to serve only six years and to go out free in the seventh. If he sold himself because of p…