Leviticus 25:28

28 'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that ¹he may return to his property.

Leviticus 25:28 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:28

But if he be not able to restore it to him
The overplus, or give him what is in proportion to the time he has had it, and yet to come:

then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that bought it
until the year of the jubilee;
continue in his possession, and he shall enjoy all the benefit of it till that year comes:

and in the jubilee it shall go out:
out of his hands or possession; or "he shall go out" ^F7, the purchaser shall go out of what he has bought, and shall have no more possession of it, but it shall come into the hands of the seller, and that without money, as the Targum of Jonathan adds:

and he shall return unto his possession;
the seller, and enter upon it and enjoy it as his own property, as before he sold it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (auyw) "discedet emptor", Junius & Tremellius.

Leviticus 25:28 In-Context

26 'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

27 then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.

28 'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.

29 'Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

30 'But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.

Cross References

• 1. Leviticus 25:10, 13

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "his hand has not found sufficient to"
• [b]. Lit "go out"