Leviticus 25:26

26 If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers[a] and obtains enough to redeem his land,

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 You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.
25 If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
26 If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land,
27 he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.
28 But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit but his hand reaches
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