Leviticus 25:28

28 However, if he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.

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

27 he must count the years from its sale. Then he will pay what is left to the man to whom he sold it, and it will be his property again.

28 However, if he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.

29 "If anyone sells a home in a walled city, for one year after selling it he has the right to buy it back. He may buy it back only within that time.

30 If he does not buy it back during that year, the house in the city belongs to the buyer for generations to come. It will not be released in the jubilee.