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A Fair Price for Freedom
Commentators explain that this verse establishes a just and clear formula for redemption. The price was not arbitrary but was calculated proportionally to the number of years remaining until the Jubilee. As John Gill illustrates with an example, if half the time to the Jubilee had passed, the redemption price would be half the original purchase price, ensuring fairness for both the servant and the master.
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Leviticus
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Albert Barnes
On Leviticus 25:47–54
18th Century
Theologian
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
On Leviticus 25:50–52
19th Century
Bishop
And he shall reckon with him. —That is, either the man himself when he is able to redeem himself, or his relatives. The authoritie…
John Gill
On Leviticus 25:51
17th Century
Pastor
If [there be] yet many years behind
To the year of jubilee, and more than he had served: according unto …
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Matthew Henry
On Leviticus 25:39–55
17th Century
Minister
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…