Leviticus 25:41
וְיָצָא מֵֽעִמָּךְ הוּא וּבָנָיו עִמּוֹ וְשָׁב אֶל־מִשְׁפַּחְתּוֹ וְאֶל־אֲחֻזַּת אֲבֹתָיו יָשֽׁוּב׃
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וְיָצָא֙ מֵֽעִמָּ֔ךְ ה֖וּא וּבָנָ֣יו עִמּ֑וֹ וְשָׁב֙ אֶל־מִשְׁפַּחְתּ֔וֹ וְאֶל־אֲחֻזַּ֥ת אֲבֹתָ֖יו יָשֽׁוּב׃
καὶ ἐξελεύσεται τῇ ἀφέσει καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ μετ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπελεύσεται εἰς τὴν γενεὰν αὐτοῦ· εἰς τὴν κατάσχεσιν τὴν πατρικὴν ἀποδραμεῖται.
Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0
Latin (Vulgate)
et postea egredietur cum liberis suis, et revertetur ad cognationem, ad possessionem patrum suorum.
En ese año quedará libre de ti, él y sus hijos, y volverá a su propia familia y a la propiedad de sus antepasados.
Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)
Entonces saldrá de contigo, él y sus hijos consigo, y volverá á su familia, y á la posesión de sus padres se restituirá.
Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
✦ What the text says
Summary
Leviticus 25:41 describes the release of a person (previously indentured) from their master's household, stating that both he and his children will depart, returning to his clan and to his ancestral landholding.
Key words
- ya.Tza' ("he will go out", H3318G) — qal sequential perfect, continuing the narrative chain of actions that occur at release.
- va.Na ("sons", H1121A) — masculine plural construct, linked to a possessive suffix ("his sons"), indicating the children depart together with him.
- Shav ("he will return", H7725G) — qal sequential perfect, paired with mish.pach.T ("clan", H4940) via the preposition 'el ("to", H0413).
- 'a.chu.Zat ("[the] possession of", H0272) — feminine singular construct, joined to 'a.vo.Ta ("ancestors", H0001G), forming the phrase "possession of his ancestors."
- ya.Shuv ("he will return", H7725G) — qal imperfect, repeating the root of Shav but in a different aspect, closing the verse with emphasis on return to ancestral land.
What the text says
The verse is built as a chain of three verbal clauses connected by the narrative vav (H9001/H9002): ya.Tza' ("he will go out"), Shav ("he will return"), and ya.Shuv ("he will return"). The first two verbs are qal sequential perfects, which continue a sequence of actions in the narrative flow — a common construction in legal/narrative Hebrew describing what happens next in a series of stipulated events. The final verb, ya.Shuv, shifts to a qal imperfect, marking either ongoing or future aspect, and shares the same root (H7725) as Shav.
The repetition of the root sh-w-v ("to return") in both Shav and ya.Shuv creates a structural frame: the person returns first "to his clan" (mish.pach.T, H4940) and then, in a separate final clause, "to the possession of his ancestors" ('a.chu.Zat 'a.vo.Ta, H0272 + H0001G) he "will return" (ya.Shuv). This double statement of return, using the same verb twice, places emphasis on the ancestral property as the endpoint of the action, restated after already being introduced by 'el ("to", H0413) in the preceding clause.
The phrase me.'i.Ma-kh ("from with you", H9006 + H5973B + H9032) specifies departure from the addressee's household, while 'i.M-o ("with him", H5973A + H9033) indicates the children accompany the person leaving.
Differences between versions
The LXX renders the departure with τῇ ἀφέσει ("by/at the release"), introducing the noun "release" not explicitly present as a separate lexical item in the Hebrew text, which instead uses the verb ya.Tza' ("he will go out"). The Vulgate's egredietur ("he will go out") aligns more closely with the Hebrew verb. The LXX also uses τὰ τέκνα ("the children") for va.Na ("sons", H1121A), a more general term than the Hebrew's specifically masculine plural noun. Where the Hebrew states the return "to his clan" (mish.pach.T, H4940), the LXX has εἰς τὴν γενεὰν αὐτοῦ ("to his generation/kin"), a related but distinct semantic domain.
This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.