Imamat 25:16-21

25:16 The more years there are, ¹  the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, ²  the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of ³  produce. 25:17 No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, ⁴  but you must fear your God, because I am the Lord your God. 25:18 You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them ⁵  so that you may live securely in the land. ⁶ 

25:19 “‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, ⁷  and you may live securely in the land. 25:20 If you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’ 25:21 I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield ⁸  the produce ⁹  for three years,

[25:16]  ¹ tn Heb “To the mouth of the many years.”

[25:16]  ² tn Heb “to the mouth of the few years.”

[25:16]  ³ tn Heb “a number of produce”; the words “years of” are implied. As an alternative this could be translated “a number of harvests” (cf. NRSV, NLT).

[25:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “And you shall not oppress a man his fellow citizen.”

[25:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “And you shall keep and do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 20:8, etc.).

[25:18]  ⁶ tn Heb “and you shall dwell on the land to security.”

[25:19]  ⁷ tn Heb “eat to satisfaction”; KJV, ASV “ye shall eat your fill.”

[25:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “and it [i.e., the land] shall make the produce.” The Hebrew term וְעָשָׂת (vÿ’asat, “and it shall make”) is probably an older third feminine singular form of the verb (GKC 210 §75.m). Smr has the normal form.

[25:21]  ⁹ tn Smr and LXX have “its produce” (cf. 25:3, 7, etc.) rather than “the produce.”