Leviticus 25:26

26 If you have no relative to buy it back, you may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back yourself.

Leviticus 25:26 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:26

And if the man have none to redeem it
That is, none of kin that was able or willing to redeem it; otherwise no doubt there were persons in the land able to do it at any time, but none he was in connection with, or from whom he could expect such a favour:

and himself be able to redeem it;
or if his hand has got, and he has found a sufficiency for his redemption, as the Targum of Jonathan; not that he has found anything that was lost, as Chaskuni glosses it, but by one providence or another, by the blessing of God on his trade and business, is become rich, and it is in the power of his hand to redeem the possession he had sold, he might do it; but, as the same writer observes, he might not borrow and redeem, but must do it with what he had got of his own since the time of sale, and which is also the sense of others F4.


FOOTNOTES:

F4 Misn. Eracin, c. 9. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Leviticus 25:26 In-Context

24 When land is sold, the right of the original owner to buy it back must be recognized.
25 If any of you Israelites become poor and are forced to sell your land, your closest relative is to buy it back.
26 If you have no relative to buy it back, you may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back yourself.
27 In that case you must pay to the one who bought it a sum that will make up for the years remaining until the next Year of Restoration, when you would in any event recover your land.
28 But if you do not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the one who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.