Leviticus 25:13

13 In this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to its original owner.

Leviticus 25:13 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:13

In the year of this jubilee
In the beginning of it, as Aben Ezra, though not on the first day of Tisri, but the tenth day, the day of atonement, when the trumpet was blown: ye shall return every man unto his possession;
which is repeated from ( Leviticus 25:10 ) ; the reason of which, the Jews say, is to include gifts, and which, according to them, are like sales, and returned in the year of "jubilee"; that is, if a man gave his estate in possession to another, he returned to it, in the year of jubilee, equally as if he had sold it; and therefore they observe the same phrase is twice used by Moses, to include gifts F25: but perhaps the truer reason is, because this was a special business done at this time, and of great importance; the word "return" being so often used, may serve to confirm the sense of the word "jubilee", given previously, (See Gill on Leviticus 25:9).


FOOTNOTES:

F25 Misn. Becorot, c. 8. sect. 10. & Bartenora in ib.

Leviticus 25:13 In-Context

11 You shall not plant your fields or harvest the grain that grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards.
12 The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only what the fields produce of themselves.
13 In this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to its original owner.
14 So when you sell land to an Israelite or buy land, do not deal unfairly.
15 The price is to be set according to the number of years the land can produce crops before the next Year of Restoration.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.