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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…

If [there be] yet many years behind
To the year of jubilee, and more than he had served: according unto …

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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