Imamat 25:2

25:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath ¹  to the Lord.

Imamat 25:6

25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce ²  of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, ³ 

Imamat 25:23

25:23 The land must not be sold without reclaim ⁴  because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me. ⁵ 

[25:2]  ¹ tn Heb “the land shall rest a Sabbath.”

[25:6]  ² tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”

[25:6]  ³ tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.

[25:23]  ⁴ tn The term rendered “without reclaim” means that the land has been bought for the full price and is, therefore, not subject to reclaim under any circumstances. This was not to be done with land in ancient Israel (contrast the final full sale of houses in v. 30; see the evidence cited in B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 174).

[25:23]  ⁵ tn That is, the Israelites were strangers and residents who were attached to the Lord’s household. They did not own the land. Note the parallel to the “priest’s lodger” in Lev 22:10.