Leviticus 27:22

22 If someone consecrates to the Lord a field that has been purchased, which is not a part of the inherited landholding,

Leviticus 27:22 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 27:22

And if [a man] sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath
bought
With his own money, of some person in poverty and distress, who was obliged to sell it, and which, according to a former law, returned to the original proprietor in the year of jubilee:

which [is] not of the fields of his possession;
which he has not by inheritance from his fathers. Jarchi observes, there is a difference between a field bought, and a field possessed; for a field bought is not divided to the priests in the year of jubilee, because a man cannot sanctify it but until the year of jubilee; for in the year of jubilee it would go out of his hands, and return to the owner; wherefore if he comes to redeem it, he must redeem it with the price fixed for the field of possession: the Jewish doctors are divided about a field bought of a father by a son, whether it is a field of purchase or of possession ^F6.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Misn. Eracin, c. 7. sect. 5.

Leviticus 27:22 In-Context

20 but if the field is not redeemed, or if it has been sold to someone else, it shall no longer be redeemable.

21 But when the field is released in the jubilee, it shall be holy to the Lord as a devoted field; it becomes the priest's holding.

22 If someone consecrates to the Lord a field that has been purchased, which is not a part of the inherited landholding,

23 the priest shall compute for it the proportionate assessment up to the year of jubilee, and the assessment shall be paid as of that day, a sacred donation to the Lord.

24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, whose holding the land is.