Leviticus 25:27
25:27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, 1 refund the balance 2 to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
Leviticus 25:45
25:45 Also you may buy slaves 3 from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are 4 with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.
Leviticus 26:45
26:45 I will remember for them the covenant with their ancestors 5 whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord.’”
1 tn Heb “and he shall calculate its years of sale.”
2 tn Heb “and return the excess.”
3 tn The word “slaves” is not in the Hebrew text, but is implied here.
4 tn Heb “family which is” (i.e., singular rather than plural).
5 tn Heb “covenant of former ones.”
sn For similar expressions referring back to the ancestors who refused to follow the stipulations of the Mosaic covenant see, for example, Deut 19:14, Jer 11:10, and Ps 79:8 (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 192, and J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 471).