Leviticus 25:24

24 People must always have the right to buy their property back.

Leviticus 25:24 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:24

And in all the land of your possession
Which they should possess in the land of Canaan, whatever part of it any of them should enjoy:

ye shall grant a redemption for the land;
that is, whenever any estate in it was sold through necessity, the buyer was obliged to grant a liberty to the seller to redeem it, when it was in his power to do it, or any or his relations, especially after two years; so Jarchi observes, he that sells his possession may redeem it after two years, either he himself or he that is near akin to him, nor can the buyer hinder it; (See Gill on Leviticus 25:15).

Leviticus 25:24 In-Context

22 You will plant [again] in the eighth year but live on what the land already produced. You will eat it, even in the ninth year, until the land produces more.

23 "Land must never be sold permanently, because the land is mine. To me you are strangers without permanent homes.

24 People must always have the right to buy their property back.

25 If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his property, then the one who can assume responsibility, his nearest relative, must buy back what he sold.

26 If a man doesn't have anyone to buy it back for him, but if he prospers and earns enough to buy it back himself,