Discovery BoxLeviticus 25:5
Context25:5 You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned 1 vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.
Leviticus 25:11
Context25:11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. 2
Leviticus 25:29
Context25:29 “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, 3 its right of redemption must extend 4 until one full year from its sale; 5 its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year. 6
Leviticus 25:50
Context25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years 7 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. 8
Leviticus 25:52
Context25:52 but if only a few years remain 9 until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.
Leviticus 27:23
Context27:23 the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay 10 the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the Lord.
[25:5] 1 tn Heb “consecrated, devoted, forbidden” (נָזִיר, nazir). The same term is used for the “consecration” of the “Nazirite” (and his hair, Num 6:2, 18, etc.), a designation which, in turn, derives from the very same root.
[25:11] 2 tn Heb “you shall not sow and you shall not…and you shall not….”
[25:29] 3 tn Heb “a house of a residence of a walled city.”
[25:29] 5 tn Heb “of its sale.”
[25:29] 6 tn Heb “days its right of redemption shall be” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 176).
[25:50] 5 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.
