Leviticus 27:22

22 "'If someone gives to the Lord a field he has bought, which is not a part of his family land,

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 "'If the person does not buy back the field, or if it is sold to someone else, the first person cannot ever buy it back.

21 When the land is released at the year of Jubilee, it will become holy to the Lord, like land specially given to him. It will become the property of the priests.

22 "'If someone gives to the Lord a field he has bought, which is not a part of his family land,

23 the priest must count the years to the next Jubilee. He must decide the price for the land, and the price must be paid on that day. Then that land will be holy to the Lord.

24 At the year of Jubilee, the land will go back to its first owner, to the family who sold the land.