Leviticus 27:24

24 In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

Leviticus 27:24 in Other Translations

24 In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.

24 In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property.

24 In the year of Jubilee it goes back to its original owner, the man from whom he bought it.

24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.

24 In the jubilee year the field will go back to the person from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as family property.

24 In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.

24 " 'In the Year of Jubilee the field will go back to the person the man bought it from. That person is the one who had owned the land before.

Leviticus 27:24 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 27:24

In the year of jubilee, the field shall return unto him of
whom it was bought
Not to him that sanctified it, whether he redeemed it or not; nor to him that bought it of the treasurer of the temple after it was sanctified; but to the original proprietor and owner of it, of whom he bought it that sanctified it, for so it follows:

[even] to him to whom the possession of the land [did belong];
which was a possession of his he had by inheritance from his fathers, and therefore, according to the law of the year of jubilee, was then to return to him, and could be retained no longer, nor even converted to holy uses; for as it is said in the Misnah ^F8,

``a field of purchase goes not out to the priests in the year of jubilee; for no man can sanctify a thing which is not his own;''

as what he had purchased was no longer his than to the year of jubilee, and therefore could not devote it to sacred uses for any longer time.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Ut supra. (Hilchot Eracin, c. 4. sect. 26.)

Leviticus 27:24 In-Context

22 “ ‘If anyone dedicates to the LORD a field they have bought, which is not part of their family land,

23 the priest will determine its value up to the Year of Jubilee, and the owner must pay its value on that day as something holy to the LORD.

24 In the Year of Jubilee the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, the one whose land it was.

25 Every value is to be set according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.

26 “ ‘No one, however, may dedicate the firstborn of an animal, since the firstborn already belongs to the LORD; whether an ox or a sheep, it is the LORD’s.

Cross References

• 1. Leviticus 25:28