Leviticus 25:26

26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

Leviticus 25:26 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:26

And if the man have none to redeem it
That is, none of kin that was able or willing to redeem it; otherwise no doubt there were persons in the land able to do it at any time, but none he was in connection with, or from whom he could expect such a favour:

and himself be able to redeem it;
or if his hand has got, and he has found a sufficiency for his redemption, as the Targum of Jonathan; not that he has found anything that was lost, as Chaskuni glosses it, but by one providence or another, by the blessing of God on his trade and business, is become rich, and it is in the power of his hand to redeem the possession he had sold, he might do it; but, as the same writer observes, he might not borrow and redeem, but must do it with what he had got of his own since the time of sale, and which is also the sense of others ^F4.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Misn. Eracin, c. 9. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Leviticus 25:26 In-Context

24 And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.

25 "If your brother becomes poor, and sells part of his property, then his next of kin shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.

26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

27 let him reckon the years since he sold it and pay back the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

28 But if he has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.