Leviticus 27:13

27:13 If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, ¹  he must add one fifth to ²  its conversion value.

Leviticus 27:31

27:31 If a man redeems ³  part of his tithe, however, he must add one fifth to it. ⁴ 

Leviticus 25:49

25:49 or his uncle or his cousin ⁵  may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives – his family ⁶  – may redeem him, or if ⁷  he prospers he may redeem himself.

Leviticus 25:25

25:25 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold. ⁸ 

Leviticus 27:19-20

27:19 If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, ⁹  he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price ¹⁰  and it will belong to him. ¹¹  27:20 If he does not redeem the field, but sells ¹²  the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.

Leviticus 25:48

25:48 after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. ¹³  One of his brothers may redeem him,

Leviticus 25:26

25:26 If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers ¹⁴  and gains enough for its redemption, ¹⁵ 

Leviticus 25:54

25:54 If, however, ¹⁶  he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free ¹⁷  in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,

Leviticus 27:15

27:15 If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him. ¹⁸ 

Leviticus 27:27

27:27 If, however, ¹⁹  it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to ²⁰  its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value.

Leviticus 27:33

27:33 The owner ²¹  must not examine the animals to distinguish between good and bad, and he must not exchange it. If, however, he does exchange it, ²²  both the original animal ²³  and its substitute will be holy. ²⁴  It must not be redeemed.’”

Leviticus 25:30

25:30 If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, ²⁵  the house in the walled city ²⁶  will belong without reclaim ²⁷  to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

Leviticus 25:33

25:33 Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem – the sale of a house which is his property in a city – must revert in the jubilee, ²⁸  because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

Leviticus 27:28

Things Permanently Dedicated to the Lord

27:28 “‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the Lord ²⁹  from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the Lord.

[27:13]  ¹ tn Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] he redeems it [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p. The referent of “he” (the person who made the vow) and “it” (the animal) have both been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:13]  ² tn Heb “on,” meaning “on top of, in addition to” (likewise in v. 15).

[27:31]  ³ tn Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] a man redeems [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

[27:31]  ⁴ tn Heb “its one fifth on it.”

[25:49]  ⁵ tn Heb “the son of his uncle.”

[25:49]  ⁶ tn Heb “or from the remainder of his flesh from his family.”

[25:49]  ⁷ tc The LXX, followed by the Syriac, actually has “if,” which is not in the MT.

[25:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “the sale of his brother.”

[27:19]  ⁹ tn Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] he redeems [finite verb] the field, the one who consecrated it.” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

[27:19]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the silver of the conversion value.”

[27:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and it shall rise to him.” See HALOT 1087 s.v. קום 7 for the rendering offered here, but see also the note on the end of v. 14 above (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 476, 478).

[27:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and if he sells.”

[25:48]  ¹³ tn Heb “right of redemption shall be to him.”

[25:26]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and his hand reaches.”

[25:26]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and he finds as sufficiency of its redemption.”

[25:54]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “And if.”

[25:54]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “go out.”

[27:15]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and it shall be to him.”

[27:27]  ²¹ tn Heb “And if.”

[27:27]  ²² tn Heb “in” or “by.”

[27:33]  ²³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the owner of the animal) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:33]  ²⁴ tn Heb “And if exchanging [infinitive absolute] he exchanges it [finite verb].” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.

[27:33]  ²⁵ tn Heb “it and its substitute.” The referent (the original animal offered) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[27:33]  ²⁶ tn Heb “it shall be and its substitute shall be holy.”

[25:30]  ²⁵ tn Heb “until fulfilling to it a complete year.’

[25:30]  ²⁶ tn Heb “the house which [is] in the city which to it [is] a wall.” The Kethib has לֹא (lo’, “no, not”) rather than לוֹ (lo, “to it”) which is the Qere.

[25:30]  ²⁷ tn See the note on v. 23 above.

[25:33]  ²⁷ tn Heb “And which he shall redeem from the Levites shall go out, sale of house and city, his property in the jubilee.” Although the end of this verse is clear, the first part is notoriously difficult. There are five main views. (1) The first clause of the verse actually attaches to the previous verse, and refers to the fact that their houses retain a perpetual right of redemption (v. 32b), “which any of the Levites may exercise” (v. 33a; J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 418, 421). (2) It refers to property that one Levite sells to another Levite, which is then redeemed by still another Levite (v. 33a). In such cases, the property reverts to the original Levite owner in the jubilee year (v. 33b; G. J. Wenham, Leviticus [NICOT], 321). (3) It refers to houses in a city that had come to be declared as a Levitical city but had original non-Levitical owners. Once the city was declared to belong to the Levites, however, an owner could only sell his house to a Levite, and he could only redeem it back from a Levite up until the time of the first jubilee after the city was declared to be a Levitical city. In this case the first part of the verse would be translated, “Such property as may be redeemed from the Levites” (NRSV, NJPS). At the first jubilee, however, all such houses became the property of the Levites (v. 33b; P. J. Budd, Leviticus [NCBC], 353). (4) It refers to property “which is appropriated from the Levites” (not “redeemed from the Levites,” v. 33a) by those who have bought it or taken it as security for debts owed to them by Levites who had fallen on bad times. Again, such property reverts back to the original Levite owners at the jubilee (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 177). (5) It simply refers to the fact that a Levite has the option of redeeming his house (i.e., the prefix form of the verb is taken to be subjunctive, “may or might redeem”), which he had to sell because he had fallen into debt or perhaps even become destitute. Even if he never gained the resources to do so, however, it would still revert to him in the jubilee year. The present translation is intended to reflect this latter view.

[27:28]  ²⁹ tn Heb “Surely, any permanently dedicated [thing] which a man shall permanently dedicate to the Lord.” The Hebrew term חֵרֶם (kherem) refers to things that are devoted permanently to the Lord (see the note on v. 21 above).