Leviticus 25:24

24 'Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

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Leviticus 25:24 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:24

And in all the land of your possession
Which they should possess in the land of Canaan, whatever part of it any of them should enjoy:

ye shall grant a redemption for the land;
that is, whenever any estate in it was sold through necessity, the buyer was obliged to grant a liberty to the seller to redeem it, when it was in his power to do it, or any or his relations, especially after two years; so Jarchi observes, he that sells his possession may redeem it after two years, either he himself or he that is near akin to him, nor can the buyer hinder it; (See Gill on Leviticus 25:15).

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Leviticus 25:24 In-Context

22 'When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.

23 'The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

24 'Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

25 'If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

26 'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

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[a]. Lit "land"

Leviticus 25:24

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Leviticus 25:24 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:24 In-Context

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