Leviticus 25:28

28 But if he is not able to stretch forth his hand and find enough to return unto it, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the one that has bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee the land shall go out free, and he shall return unto his possession.

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 And when the man has no redeemer and is able to stretch forth his hand and find enough for his redemption,

27 then he shall count the years from the sale thereof and pay that which remains unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

28 But if he is not able to stretch forth his hand and find enough to return unto it, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the one that has bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee the land shall go out free, and he shall return unto his possession.

29 And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

30 And if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to the one that bought it for his descendants; it shall not go out in the jubilee.