Leviticus 25:13

Release of Landed Property

25:13 “‘In this year of jubilee you must each return ¹  to your property.

Leviticus 27:17

27:17 If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, ²  the conversion value will stand,

Leviticus 25:12

25:12 Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce ³  from the field.

Leviticus 25:15

25:15 You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since ⁴  the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. ⁵ 

Leviticus 25:40

25:40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; ⁶  he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,

Leviticus 25:54

25:54 If, however, ⁷  he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free ⁸  in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

Leviticus 27:21

27:21 When it reverts ⁹  in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field; ¹⁰  it will become the priest’s property. ¹¹ 

Leviticus 27:24

27:24 In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.

Leviticus 25:28

25:28 If he has not prospered enough to refund ¹²  a balance to him, then what he sold ¹³  will belong to ¹⁴  the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert ¹⁵  in the jubilee and the original owner ¹⁶  may return to his property.

Leviticus 27:18

27:18 but if ¹⁷  he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price ¹⁸  for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

Leviticus 25:11

25:11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. ¹⁹ 

Leviticus 25:31

25:31 The houses of villages, however, ²⁰  which have no wall surrounding them ²¹  must be considered as the field ²²  of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.

Leviticus 25:50

25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years ²³  from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him. ²⁴ 

Leviticus 25:52

25:52 but if only a few years remain ²⁵  until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.

Leviticus 27:23

27:23 the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay ²⁶  the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the Lord.

[25:13]  ¹ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”

[27:17]  ² tn Heb “from the year of the jubilee.” For the meaning of “jubilee,” see the note on Lev 25:10 above.

[25:12]  ³ tn That is, the produce of the land (fem.; cf. v. 7 above).

[25:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the number of years after.”

[25:15]  ⁵ tn The words “that are left” are not in the Hebrew text, but are implied.

[25:40]  ⁵ tn See the note on Lev 25:6 above.

[25:54]  ⁶ tn Heb “And if.”

[25:54]  ⁷ tn Heb “go out.”

[27:21]  ⁷ tn Heb “When it goes out” (cf. Lev 25:25-34).

[27:21]  ⁸ tn Heb “like the field of the permanent dedication.” The Hebrew word חֵרֶם (kherem) is a much discussed term. In this and the following verses it refers in a general way to the fact that something is permanently devoted to the Lord and therefore cannot be redeemed (cf. v. 20b). See J. A. Naudé, NIDOTTE 2:276-77; N. Lohfink, TDOT 5:180-99, esp. pp. 184, 188, and 198-99; and the numerous explanations in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 483-85.

[27:21]  ⁹ tn Heb “to the priest it shall be his property.”

[25:28]  ⁸ tn Heb “And if his hand has not found sufficiency of returning.” Although some versions take this to mean that he has not made enough to regain the land (e.g., NASB, NRSV; see also B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176), the combination of terms in Hebrew corresponds to the portion of v. 27 that refers specifically to refunding the money (cf. v. 27; see NIV and G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 315).

[25:28]  ⁹ tn Heb “his sale.”

[25:28]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “will be in the hand of.” This refers to the temporary control of the one who purchased its produce until the next year of jubilee, at which time it would revert to the original owner.

[25:28]  ¹¹ tn Heb “it shall go out” (so KJV, ASV; see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).

[25:28]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the original owner of the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “And if.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have adversative force here.

[27:18]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the silver.”

[25:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “you shall not sow and you shall not…and you shall not….”

[25:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And the houses of the villages.”

[25:31]  ¹² tn Heb “which there is not to them a wall.”

[25:31]  ¹³ tn Heb “on the field.”

[25:50]  ¹² tn Heb “the years.”

[25:50]  ¹³ tn Heb “as days of a hired worker he shall be with him.” For this and the following verses see the explanation in P. J. Budd, Leviticus (NCBC), 358-59.

[25:52]  ¹³ tn Heb “but if a little remains in the years.”

[27:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “give” (so KJV, ASV, NASB, NLT).