Leviticus 25:13

13 " 'In this Year of Jubilee {each of you shall return} to his property.

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 have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee}; you must not reap its aftergrowth, and you must not harvest its unpruned vines.
12 Because it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy to you. You must eat its produce from the field.
13 " 'In this Year of Jubilee {each of you shall return} to his property.
14 And when you sell something to your fellow citizen or [you] buy from your neighbor's hand, you must not oppress {one another}.
15 You must buy from your fellow citizen according to [the] number of years after the Jubilee; he must sell to you according to [the] number of years of yield.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Plural
  • [b]. Literally "you shall return a man" or "you shall return everyone"
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