Leviticus 27:23

23 the priest must count the years to the next Jubilee. He must decide the price for the land, and the price must be paid on that day. Then that land will be holy to the Lord.

Leviticus 27:23 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 27:23

Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy
estimation, [even] unto the year of jubilee
The priest was to estimate the field of purchase sanctified, and set a price upon it according to the best of his judgment, and give it to the person that sanctified it, or whoever would redeem it; and this estimate was made, according to the number of years there were to the year of jubilee:

and he shall give thine estimation in that day;
the price set upon the field by the priest immediately, either the sanctifier, but without adding the fifth part, as in ( Leviticus 27:19 ) ; so Maimonides ^F7 observes, or any other purchaser:

[as] a holy thing unto the Lord;
to sacred uses, as the repairs of the temple to which the purchase money was appropriated.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Hilchot Eracin, c. 4. sect. 26.

Leviticus 27:23 In-Context

21 When the land is released at the year of Jubilee, it will become holy to the Lord, like land specially given to him. It will become the property of the priests.

22 "'If someone gives to the Lord a field he has bought, which is not a part of his family land,

23 the priest must count the years to the next Jubilee. He must decide the price for the land, and the price must be paid on that day. Then that land will be holy to the Lord.

24 At the year of Jubilee, the land will go back to its first owner, to the family who sold the land.

25 "'You must use the measure as set by the Holy Place in paying these prices; it weighs two-fifths of an ounce.