Leviticus 27:22

22 And if [a man] shall sanctify to the LORD a field which he hath bought, which [is] not of the fields of his possession;

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 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he shall have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy to the LORD, as a field devoted: the possession of it shall be the priest's.

22 And if [a man] shall sanctify to the LORD a field which he hath bought, which [is] not of the fields of his possession;

23 Then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of thy estimation, [even] to the year of the jubilee, and he shall give thy estimation in that day, [as] a holy thing to the LORD.

24 In the year of the jubilee, the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, [even] to him to whom the possession of the land [belonged].