To Redeem (Liberate)

Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

With loving devotion You will lead the people You have redeemed; with Your strength You will guide them to Your holy dwelling.

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.

So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.

he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:

either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.

If, however, the owner decides to redeem the animal, he must add a fifth to its value.

But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.

And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.

If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.

But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.

Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.

If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.

He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”

Stay here tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good. Let him redeem you. But if he does not want to redeem you, as surely as the LORD lives, I will. Now lie here until morning.”

I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied.

The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.”

May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance—Mount Zion, where You dwell.

The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.

who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,

He saved them from the hand that hated them; He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy

Defend my cause and redeem me; revive me according to Your word.

No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.

But now, this is what the LORD says—He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine!

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans! Declare it with a shout of joy, proclaim it, let it go out to the ends of the earth, saying, “The LORD has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?

For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

And they will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of The LORD; and you will be called Sought Out, A City Not Forsaken.

In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him.

You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

Writhe in agony, O Daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will leave the city and camp in the open fields. You will go to Babylon; there you will be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from the hand of your enemies!