Leviticus 25:47 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | WEB

If a stranger or sojourner with you has grown rich, and your brother has grown poor beside him, and sell himself to the stranger [or] sojourner with you, or to the stock of the stranger`s family;

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

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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Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee. —A better rendering is: And if the hand of a stranger, and that a so…

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century

Protestant

16th Century

And if a sojourner or a stranger. A caution is here introduced regarding the Israelites who had enslaved themselves to strangers. But by "…

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by you
An uncircumcised one, as the Targums, a proselyte of the gate, who by…

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

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…

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