What Does Leviticus 25:54 Mean in the King James?
And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
When no kinsman redeems him, the Jubilee still sets his exit, and his children leave with him.
THE MEANING
Even when no family redeemer claims you, the appointed release still brings you out of bondage. You go out with your children, so the freedom reaches the household with you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Freedom depends entirely on someone choosing to rescue me; if no rescuer comes, my bondage has no end.
THE ROOT
יִגָּאֵל
yigga’el
GROWS FROM
גאל
g-ʾ-l
To reclaim, including acting as a kinsman to recover one of one’s own.
“redeemed” in this verse is yigga’el. The word carries the sense of being reclaimed through kinship. Yet the verse names another way out when that reclaiming does not happen: the person still leaves at Jubilee, with his children.
ALSO GROWS
go’el: Kinsman-redeemer; one who reclaims a relative or what belongs to the family.
גֹּאֵל
This is the kinship dimension behind redemption in the verse.
ge’ullah: Redemption or reclaiming.
גְּאֻלָּה
It names the recovery that may happen before Jubilee, while the verse also makes room for release when it has not happened.
וְיָצָא
weyatsa
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ṣ-ʾ
To go out, come forth, or emerge.
“go out” in this verse is weyatsa. The verse describes release as a real departure: he goes out from bondage. The movement includes his children, so the exit carries the household with him.
ALSO GROWS
yotse: One who goes out or comes forth.
יוֹצֵא
It makes the root’s image of an actual person crossing out of a bound condition clear.
motsa: An exit, going out, or point of emergence.
מוֹצָא
It echoes the verse’s emphasis on an opening out of bondage, not merely a change of label.
THE PATTERN
God’s release is larger than one captive’s private rescue: it is proclaimed, promised, and reaches those still in bondage.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.THE THREAD
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.Isaiah uses the same root גאל (ga’al, reclaim), naming redemption even where no price is paid. Leviticus shows Jubilee opening that same release when no kinsman has redeemed the person in the meantime.
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