Leviticus 25:48
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New International Version (©2011)
they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:

New Living Translation (©2007)
they still retain the right to be bought back, even after they have been purchased. They may be bought back by a brother,

English Standard Version (©2001)
then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
he has the right of redemption after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.

International Standard Version (©2012)
he has the right to be redeemed after he sells himself. One of his brothers may redeem him.

NET Bible (©2006)
after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
After he has sold himself, he has the right to be bought back. One of his brothers may buy him back.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
After he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

American King James Version
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brothers may redeem him:

American Standard Version
after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

Darby Bible Translation
after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.

English Revised Version
after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him:

Webster's Bible Translation
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

World English Bible
after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

Young's Literal Translation
after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth redeem him,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:39-55 A native Israelite, if sold for debt, or for a crime, was to serve but six years, and to go out the seventh. If he sold himself, through poverty, both his work and his usage must be such as were fitting for a son of Abraham. Masters are required to give to their servants that which is just and equal, Col 4:1. At the year of jubilee the servant should go out free, he and his children, and should return to his own family. This typified redemption from the service of sin and Satan, by the grace of God in Christ, whose truth makes us free, Joh 8:32. We cannot ransom our fellow-sinners, but we may point out Christ to them; while by his grace our lives may adorn his gospel, express our love, show our gratitude, and glorify his holy name.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again,.... Though an Heathen, sold to an Israelite, was to be a bondman for ever, and could not be released by the year of jubilee, yet an Israelite sold to an Heathen might be redeemed before, and if not, he was freed then. The Jewish writers understand this of an obligation upon the man, or his friends, or the congregation, to redeem him, and that immediately, as the Targum of Jonathan, and Jarchi, because of the danger he was in by being in the family of an idolater, lest he be polluted (c), that is, with idolatry; or be swallowed up among the Heathens, as Maimonides (d); but it is plain from Leviticus 25:54, that there was no obligation for an immediate redemption; nor was the person sold in such danger as suggested, since the sojourner, to whom he is supposed to be sold, was no idolater, whether a proselyte either of righteousness, or of the gate

one of his brethren may redeem him; which may be taken in a strict and proper sense, for any of his brethren who were in circumstances sufficient to redeem him, or for any near akin to him, as the following words seem to explain it. No mention is made of his father: the reason of which Abarbinel (e) says, because it cannot be thought that a father would suffer his son to be sold, if it was in his power to redeem him, since a father is pitiful to his son.

(c) Pesikta apud Drusium in loc. (d) Hilchot Abadim, c. 2. sect. 7. (e) Apud Muis. Varia Sacra, p. 373.

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Redemption of Servants
47And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him wax poor, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brothers may redeem him: 49Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. …

Leviticus 25:47 "'If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's clan,
Leviticus 25:49 An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.
2 Kings 4:1 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves."
Nehemiah 5:8 and said: "As far as possible, we have bought back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!" They kept quiet, because they could find nothing to say.