Leviticus 25:28

28 But if you do not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the one who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.

Leviticus 25:28 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:28

But if he be not able to restore it to him
The overplus, or give him what is in proportion to the time he has had it, and yet to come:

then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that bought it
until the year of the jubilee;
continue in his possession, and he shall enjoy all the benefit of it till that year comes:

and in the jubilee it shall go out:
out of his hands or possession; or "he shall go out" ^F7, the purchaser shall go out of what he has bought, and shall have no more possession of it, but it shall come into the hands of the seller, and that without money, as the Targum of Jonathan adds:

and he shall return unto his possession;
the seller, and enter upon it and enjoy it as his own property, as before he sold it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (auyw) "discedet emptor", Junius & Tremellius.

Leviticus 25:28 In-Context

26 If you have no relative to buy it back, you may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back yourself.

27 In that case you must pay to the one who bought it a sum that will make up for the years remaining until the next Year of Restoration, when you would in any event recover your land.

28 But if you do not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the one who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.

29 If you sell a house in a walled city, you have the right to buy it back during the first full year from the date of sale.

30 But if you do not buy it back within the year, you lose the right of repurchase, and the house becomes the permanent property of the purchasers and their descendants; it will not be returned in the Year of Restoration.