Leviticus 25:26

26 If the seller has no one to redeem it but becomes rich enough to redeem it himself,

Leviticus 25:26 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:26

And if the man have none to redeem it
That is, none of kin that was able or willing to redeem it; otherwise no doubt there were persons in the land able to do it at any time, but none he was in connection with, or from whom he could expect such a favour:

and himself be able to redeem it;
or if his hand has got, and he has found a sufficiency for his redemption, as the Targum of Jonathan; not that he has found anything that was lost, as Chaskuni glosses it, but by one providence or another, by the blessing of God on his trade and business, is become rich, and it is in the power of his hand to redeem the possession he had sold, he might do it; but, as the same writer observes, he might not borrow and redeem, but must do it with what he had got of his own since the time of sale, and which is also the sense of others F4.


FOOTNOTES:

F4 Misn. Eracin, c. 9. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Leviticus 25:26 In-Context

24 Therefore, when you sell your property, you must include the right of redemption.
25 That is, if one of you becomes poor and sells some of his property, his next-of-kin can come and buy back what his relative sold.
26 If the seller has no one to redeem it but becomes rich enough to redeem it himself,
27 he will calculate the number of years the land was sold for, refund the excess to its buyer, and return to his property.
28 If he hasn't sufficient means to get it back himself, then what he sold will remain in the hands of the buyer until the year of yovel; in the yovel the buyer will vacate it and the seller return to his property.
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