Leviticus 27:22

22 And if he should consecrate to the Lord of a field which he has bought, which is not of the field 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 do not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not after redeem it.

21 But the field shall be holy to the Lord after the release, as separated land; the priest shall have possession of it.

22 And if he should consecrate to the Lord of a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession,

23 the priest shall reckon to him the full valuation from the year of release, and he shall pay the valuation in that day holy to the Lord.

24 And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was.