Leviticus 25:52

52 and if few years remain until the jubilee year, they shall compute thus: according to the years involved they shall make payment for their redemption.

Leviticus 25:52 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:52

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee,
&c.] Fewer than what he has served, then the less is given for his redemption: thus, for instance, in the above supposed case, if he has served fifteen years, and there remain but five to the year of jubilee: then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he
give him again the price of his redemption;
as in the fore mentioned case, he shall give him five pieces of money; and thus the law of justice and equity was maintained between the buyer and seller, the purchaser and the redeemer: in a like righteous manner the people of God are redeemed by Christ.

Leviticus 25:52 In-Context

50 They shall compute with the purchaser the total from the year when they sold themselves to the alien until the jubilee year; the price of the sale shall be applied to the number of years: the time they were with the owner shall be rated as the time of a hired laborer.

51 If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price;

52 and if few years remain until the jubilee year, they shall compute thus: according to the years involved they shall make payment for their redemption.

53 As a laborer hired by the year they shall be under the alien's authority, who shall not, however, rule with harshness over them in your sight.

54 And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go free in the jubilee year.