3 Mose 25:47

Elberfelder Bibel

Und wenn die Hand eines Fremdlings oder eines Beisassen bei dir etwas erwirbt, und dein Bruder bei ihm verarmt und sich dem Fremdling, dem Beisassen bei dir, oder einem Sprößling aus dem Geschlecht des Fremdlings verkauft,

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Wenn die Hand eines Fremdlings oder Beisaßen bei dir etwas erwirbt, und dein Bruder neben ihm verarmt und sich dem Fremdling, welcher ein Beisaße bei dir ist, oder einem Abkömmling von seinem Stamm verkauft,

Lutherbible (1912)
Wenn irgend ein Fremdling oder Gast bei dir zunimmt und dein Bruder neben ihm verarmt und sich dem Fremdling oder Gast bei dir oder jemand von seinem Stamm verkauft,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sojourner or stranger wax rich: Heb. the hand of a stranger, etc. obtain, etc. Leviticus 25:26, 1 Samuel 2:7, 1 Samuel 2:8, James 2:5

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:8 - redeemed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee,.... An uncircumcised one, as the Targums, a proselyte of the gate, who by living among and trading with the Israelites, might grow rich and wealthy in money, at least so as to be able to purchase an Hebrew servant, though not his lands, which he might not buy:

and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor; comes into low circumstances, and is reduced to great poverty, even extreme poverty; for only in such a case might he sell himself to an Israelite, and much less to a stranger, if this was not the case. Jarchi suggests, as in the phrase, "by thee", points at the cause or occasion of the sojourner or stranger becoming rich, his nearness unto, or cleaving to all Israelite; and so here the phrase, "by him", directs to the cause or occasion of the Israelite's becoming poor, his being near and cleaving to the sojourner or stranger: but they seem rather to be used, to show the reason of the poor Israelite falling into the hands of a rich sojourner; they being near neighbours to one another, and having a familiarity, the following bargain is struck between them:

and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner thee; the uncircumcised sojourner, as the Targum of Jonathan:

or to the stock of a stranger's family; or "root" a, one that sprung from a family, originally proselytes; which some understand of one, who though he be descended from such a family, was now rooted among the people of God, and incorporated into the commonwealth of Israel; and yet such an one could not detain an Hebrew servant longer than the year of jubilee: but the Jewish writers generally interpret it of an idolater b.

a לעקר "radici", Vatablus, Piscator. b Targum Onk. Jon. Jarchi & Ben Melech, in loc. Kimchi in Sepher Shorash, rad. עקר.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A sojourner or stranger - Rather, a foreigner who has settled among you. See Leviticus 16:29, note; Exodus 20:10, note.

Leviticus 25:54

In these years - More properly, by one of these means. The extreme period of servitude in this case was six years, as when the master was a Hebrew Exodus 21:2.

Looking at the law of the Jubilee from a simply practical point of view, its operation must have tended to remedy those evils which are always growing up in the ordinary conditions of human society. It prevented the permanent accumulation of land in the hands of a few, and periodically raised those whom fault or misfortune had sunk into poverty to a position of competency. It must also have tended to keep alive family feeling, and helped to preserve the family genealogies.

But in its more special character, as a law given by Yahweh to His special people, it was a standing lesson to those who would rightly regard it, on the terms upon which the enjoyment of the land of promise had been conferred upon them. All the land belonged to Yahweh as its supreme Lord, every Israelite as His vassal belonged to Him. The voice of the Jubilee horns, twice in every century, proclaimed the equitable and beneficent social order appointed for the people; they sounded that acceptable year of Yahweh which was to bring comfort to all that mourned, in which the slavery of sin was to be abolished, and the true liberty of God’s children was to be proclaimed Luke 2:25; Isaiah 61:2; Luke 4:19; Acts 3:21; Romans 8:19-23; 1 Peter 1:3-4.