Leviticus 25:26

26 But if a man {does not have} a redeemer, then {he prospers} and he finds enough for his redemption,

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 And in all your property's land you must provide redemption for the land.
25 " 'When your brother becomes poor and he sells part of his property, then {his nearest redeemer} shall come, and he shall redeem the thing sold by his brother.
26 But if a man {does not have} a redeemer, then {he prospers} and he finds enough for his redemption,
27 then he shall calculate the years of its selling, and he shall refund the balance to the man to whom he sold [it], and he shall return to his property.
28 But if his hand does not find enough to refund to him, then {what he has sold} shall be in the buyer's hand until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall go out [of the buyer's hand] in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his property.

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