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It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property. <a href="/nlt/leviticus/25.htm">New Living Translation</a> But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land. <a href="/esv/leviticus/25.htm">English Standard Version</a> But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property. <a href="/bsb/leviticus/25.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property. <a href="/kjv/leviticus/25.htm">King James Bible</a> But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. <a href="/nkjv/leviticus/25.htm">New King James Version</a> But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession. <a href="/nasb_/leviticus/25.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, so that he may return to his property. <a href="/nasb/leviticus/25.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8216But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property. <a href="/nasb77/leviticus/25.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property. <a href="/lsb/leviticus/25.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> But if he has not found sufficient means to return it to himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his possession of land. <a href="/amp/leviticus/25.htm">Amplified Bible</a> But if he is unable to redeem it, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of the purchaser until the Year of Jubilee; but at the Jubilee it shall revert, and he may return to his property. <a href="/csb/leviticus/25.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property. <a href="/hcsb/leviticus/25.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.&#8221 <a href="/asv/leviticus/25.htm">American Standard Version</a> But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. <a href="/cev/leviticus/25.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> But if you don't have the money to pay the present owner a fair price, you will have to wait until the Year of Celebration, when the property will once again become yours. <a href="/erv/leviticus/25.htm">English Revised Version</a> But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. <a href="/gwt/leviticus/25.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> However, if he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again. <a href="/gnt/leviticus/25.htm">Good News Translation</a> But if you do not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the one who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner. <a href="/isv/leviticus/25.htm">International Standard Version</a> If he's not able to redeem it back for himself, then what he sold is to remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee, it is to be returned so he may return to his property. <a href="/msb/leviticus/25.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property. <a href="/net/leviticus/25.htm">NET Bible</a> If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property. <a href="/nheb/leviticus/25.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property. <a href="/wbt/leviticus/25.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> But if he shall not be able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession. <a href="/web/leviticus/25.htm">World English Bible</a> But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/leviticus/25.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And if his hand has not found sufficiency to give back to him, then his sold thing has been in the hand of him who buys it until the Year of Jubilee; and it has gone out in the Jubilee, and he has returned to his possession. <a href="/ylt/leviticus/25.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> 'And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession. <a href="/slt/leviticus/25.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And if his hand found not a sufficiency to return to him, and his selling was in the hand of him buying it, till the year of the jubilee: and it went forth in the jubilee, and he turned back to his possession.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/leviticus/25.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor. <a href="/cpdv/leviticus/25.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> But if his hand will not have discovered a way to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the Jubilee. For in that year all that has been sold shall return to the owner, and to the original possessor. <a href="/nabre/leviticus/25.htm">New American Bible</a> But if the person does not acquire sufficient means to buy back the land, what was sold shall remain in the possession of the purchaser until the year of the jubilee, when it must be released and returned to the original owner. <a href="/nrsvce/leviticus/25.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> But if there are not sufficient means to recover it, what was sold shall remain with the purchaser until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and the property shall be returned.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/leviticus/25.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> But if he cannot afford to pay him back, then that which he sold shall remain secure in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession. <a href="/hpbt/leviticus/25.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And if it does not come into his hands so as to pay him, the purchase shall be firm to him who bought it until the year of restoration, and he shall go forth in the restoration and he shall return to his inheritance.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/leviticus/25.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> But if he have not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. <a href="/sep/leviticus/25.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession. <a href="/parallel/leviticus/25-28.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NWs_V1RyMFo?start=6844" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/leviticus/25.htm">The Law of Redemption</a> …27he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property. 28<a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: wə·’im (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!">But if</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">he cannot</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: mā·ṣə·’āh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To attain to, find. ">obtain</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)"></a> <a href="/hebrew/1767.htm" title="1767: dê (N-msc) -- Sufficiency, enough. Of uncertain derivation; enough, used chiefly with preposition in phrases.">enough</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: hā·šîḇ (V-Hifil-Inf) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">to repay</a> <a href="/hebrew/lōw (Prep:: 3ms) -- ">him,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4465.htm" title="4465: mim·kā·rōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- A sale, ware. From makar; merchandise; abstractly, a selling.">what he sold</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wə·hā·yāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">will remain</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: bə·yaḏ (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">in possession</a> <a href="/hebrew/7069.htm" title="7069: haq·qō·neh (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- A primitive root; to erect, i.e. Create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase; by implication to own.">of the buyer</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯōw (DirObjM:: 3ms) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="5704: ‘aḏ (Prep) -- As far as, even to, up to, until, while. Properly, the same as ad; as far as, whether of space or time or degree.">until</a> <a href="/hebrew/8141.htm" title="8141: šə·naṯ (N-fsc) -- A year. (in plura or shanah; from shanah; a year.">the Year</a> <a href="/hebrew/3104.htm" title="3104: hay·yō·w·ḇêl (Art:: N-ms) -- A ram, ram's horn (a wind instrument). ">of Jubilee.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3104.htm" title="3104: bay·yō·ḇêl (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A ram, ram's horn (a wind instrument). ">In the Jubilee,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3318.htm" title="3318: wə·yā·ṣā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to go out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.">however, it is to be released,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7725.htm" title="7725: wə·šāḇ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- A primitive root; to turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively; generally to retreat; often adverbial, again.">so that he may return</a> <a href="/hebrew/272.htm" title="272: la·’ă·ḥuz·zā·ṯōw (Prep-l:: N-fsc:: 3ms) -- A possession. Feminine passive participle from 'achaz; something seized, i.e. A possession.">to his property.</a> 29If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/ruth/4-4.htm">Ruth 4:4-6</a> I thought I should inform you that you may buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you will not redeem it, tell me so I may know, because there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.” “I will redeem it,” he replied. / Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.” / The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.” <a href="/jeremiah/32-7.htm">Jeremiah 32:7-15</a> Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’ / Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD. / So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver. ... <a href="/numbers/36-7.htm">Numbers 36:7-9</a> No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. / Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers. / No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.” <a href="/ezekiel/46-17.htm">Ezekiel 46:17-18</a> But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs. / The prince must not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. He is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so that none of My people will be displaced from his property.’” <a href="/nehemiah/5-3.htm">Nehemiah 5:3-5</a> Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.” / Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. / We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless to redeem them because our fields and vineyards belong to others.” <a href="/isaiah/61-1.htm">Isaiah 61:1-2</a> The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, / to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, <a href="/galatians/4-4.htm">Galatians 4:4-5</a> But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, / to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons. <a href="/romans/8-23.htm">Romans 8:23</a> Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. <a href="/ephesians/1-13.htm">Ephesians 1:13-14</a> And in Him, having heard and believed the word of truth—the gospel of your salvation—you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, / who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory. <a href="/hebrews/9-15.htm">Hebrews 9:15</a> Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant. <a href="/1_corinthians/7-23.htm">1 Corinthians 7:23</a> You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. <a href="/matthew/20-28.htm">Matthew 20:28</a> just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” <a href="/luke/4-18.htm">Luke 4:18-19</a> “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, / to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” <a href="/acts/20-28.htm">Acts 20:28</a> Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood. <a href="/colossians/1-13.htm">Colossians 1:13-14</a> He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, / in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.and in the<a href="/leviticus/25-13.htm">Leviticus 25:13</a> In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.he shall<a href="/isaiah/35-9.htm">Isaiah 35:9,10</a> No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: … <a href="/jeremiah/32-15.htm">Jeremiah 32:15</a> For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.<a href="/1_corinthians/15-52.htm">1 Corinthians 15:52-54</a> In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/25-26.htm">Able</a> <a href="/genesis/34-10.htm">Acquire</a> <a href="/exodus/15-16.htm">Bought</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-12.htm">Buyer</a> <a href="/leviticus/22-11.htm">Buyeth</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-26.htm">Found</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-26.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/leviticus/24-14.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-15.htm">Jubilee</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-2.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-26.htm">Means</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-27.htm">Possession</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-16.htm">Price</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-27.htm">Property</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-50.htm">Purchaser</a> <a href="/leviticus/16-26.htm">Released</a> <a href="/exodus/22-15.htm">Repay</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-27.htm">Restore</a> <a href="/ezekiel/46-17.htm">Revert</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-27.htm">Sold</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-8.htm">Sufficiency</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-26.htm">Sufficient</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Able</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-44.htm">Acquire</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-30.htm">Bought</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-30.htm">Buyer</a> <a href="/1_kings/16-24.htm">Buyeth</a> <a href="/numbers/11-11.htm">Found</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-25.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-30.htm">Jubilee</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Kept</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Means</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-32.htm">Possession</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-48.htm">Price</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-30.htm">Property</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-30.htm">Purchaser</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-30.htm">Released</a> <a href="/leviticus/26-34.htm">Repay</a> <a href="/numbers/35-25.htm">Restore</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-31.htm">Revert</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-29.htm">Sold</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-24.htm">Sufficiency</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-47.htm">Sufficient</a><div class="vheading2">Leviticus 25</div>1. <a href="/leviticus/25-1.htm">the Sabbath of the seventh year</a> 8. <a href="/leviticus/25-8.htm">The jubilee in the fiftieth year</a> 14. <a href="/leviticus/25-14.htm">Of oppression</a> 18. <a href="/leviticus/25-18.htm">A blessing of obedience</a> 23. <a href="/leviticus/25-23.htm">The redemption of land</a> 29. <a href="/leviticus/25-29.htm">Of houses</a> 35. <a href="/leviticus/25-35.htm">Compassion to the poor</a> 39. <a href="/leviticus/25-39.htm">The usage of bondmen</a> 47. <a href="/leviticus/25-47.htm">The redemption of servants</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In ancient Israel, land was a crucial asset, representing both livelihood and inheritance. The inability to redeem the land highlights the economic struggles faced by some families. This provision underscores the importance of land in Israelite society and the need for mechanisms to prevent permanent loss of family inheritance.what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer The buyer holds the land until the Year of Jubilee if the original owner cannot redeem it. This reflects the temporary nature of property transactions in Israel, where land was not permanently transferred but rather leased. The buyer benefits from the land's produce until the Jubilee, which serves as a reminder of the temporary stewardship of earthly possessions.until the Year of Jubilee The Year of Jubilee occurred every 50th year and was a time of liberation and restoration. It was a unique institution in Israelite law, ensuring that economic disparities did not become permanent. The Jubilee reflects God's desire for social justice and equality, emphasizing that the land ultimately belongs to Him (<a href="/leviticus/25-23.htm">Leviticus 25:23</a>). It also foreshadows the ultimate redemption and restoration found in Christ, who proclaims the "year of the Lord's favor" (<a href="/luke/4-19.htm">Luke 4:19</a>).In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released During the Jubilee, all sold land was to be returned to its original family owners. This release symbolizes freedom and restoration, a theme prevalent throughout Scripture. It serves as a type of the spiritual release and redemption offered through Jesus Christ, who frees believers from the bondage of sin and restores them to their intended inheritance in God's kingdom.so that he may return to his property The return to one's property signifies the restoration of family heritage and stability. It ensures that each family maintains its God-given inheritance, preventing the permanent disenfranchisement of any tribe or family. This return is a powerful image of God's faithfulness and the hope of restoration, paralleling the believer's return to a right relationship with God through Christ. The Jubilee year thus becomes a prophetic picture of the ultimate restoration of all things in the new creation (<a href="/revelation/21.htm">Revelation 21:1-5</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_israelites.htm">The Israelites</a> God's chosen people, to whom the laws of Leviticus were given. They were to live according to God's commandments and statutes. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_year_of_jubilee.htm">The Year of Jubilee</a> A special year occurring every 50th year, during which slaves were freed, debts were forgiven, and land was returned to its original owners. It was a time of restoration and freedom. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_buyer.htm">The Buyer</a> The individual who purchased the land from the original owner. The buyer holds the land until the Year of Jubilee if the original owner cannot redeem it. 4. <a href="/topical/t/the_original_owner.htm">The Original Owner</a> The person who sold the land due to financial hardship. They have the right to redeem their land if they can gather the necessary resources before the Year of Jubilee. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_land.htm">The Land</a> Represents God's provision and inheritance for the Israelites. It was not to be permanently sold because it ultimately belonged to God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_ownership_and_provision.htm">God's Ownership and Provision</a> The land ultimately belongs to God, reminding us that everything we have is a gift from Him. We are stewards, not owners. <a href="/topical/r/restoration_and_hope.htm">Restoration and Hope</a> The Year of Jubilee symbolizes hope and restoration. In Christ, we have the ultimate restoration and hope for eternal life. <a href="/topical/r/redemption_and_forgiveness.htm">Redemption and Forgiveness</a> Just as the land could be redeemed, we are redeemed by Christ. This teaches us about the importance of forgiveness and second chances. <a href="/topical/s/social_justice_and_equity.htm">Social Justice and Equity</a> The Jubilee laws ensured that wealth and resources were not permanently concentrated in the hands of a few. This calls us to consider issues of justice and equity in our communities. <a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_timing.htm">Trust in God's Timing</a> The return of the land in the Jubilee year teaches us to trust in God's timing and provision, even when immediate circumstances seem challenging.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_leviticus_25.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Leviticus 25</a> <a href="/q/what_was_the_2017_jubilee_event.htm">What is the Jubilee celebration in 2017?</a> <a href="/q/evidence_of_israel_observing_jubilee.htm">Is there any historical or archaeological evidence showing that ancient Israel consistently observed the Year of Jubilee (Lev 25)?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_year_of_jubilee_signify.htm">What does the Year of Jubilee signify?</a> <a href="/q/why_don't_nearby_cultures_record_jubilees.htm">Why do other civilizations around Israel not record similar extended fallow periods or Jubilees, if this commandment (Lev 25) was practiced widely?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/leviticus/25.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(28) Not able to restore it to him.--That is, if the vendor is unable to return to the purchaser the probable value of the crops between the contemplated redemption and the next jubile year.Then that which is sold.--In that case the land thus sold is to continue with the purchaser till jubile, when it is to revert to the vendor without any repayment whatever. The design of this law was to secure to each family a permanent interest in the soil, and to prevent the accumulation of land on the part of the greedy few who are ever anxious to join field unto field, thus precluding the existence of landless beggars and too extensive landed proprietors. To the same effect were the laws of inheritance (<a href="/context/numbers/27-6.htm" title="And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,">Numbers 27:6-11</a>; <a href="/context/numbers/36-5.htm" title="And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph has said well.">Numbers 36:5-13</a>). Similar laws obtained among other nations of antiquity. Laws were enacted that the lots which were distributed among the inhabitants were neither to be sold nor bought. Solon made it a law that no one should acquire as much land as he wished; whilst Plato held that no individual person is to possess more than four times the quantity of land than the lowest owner, who had only a single lot. <a href="/commentaries/leviticus/25-28.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>But if וְאִ֨ם (wə·’im) Conjunctive waw | Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_518.htm">Strong's 518: </a> Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not he cannot לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no obtain מָֽצְאָ֜ה (mā·ṣə·’āh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present enough דֵּי֮ (dê) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1767.htm">Strong's 1767: </a> Sufficiency, enough to repay הָשִׁ֣יב (hā·šîḇ) Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> To turn back, in, to retreat, again him, לוֹ֒ (lōw) Preposition | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> what he sold מִמְכָּר֗וֹ (mim·kā·rōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4465.htm">Strong's 4465: </a> Merchandise, a selling will remain וְהָיָ֣ה (wə·hā·yāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be in possession בְּיַד֙ (bə·yaḏ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand of the buyer הַקֹּנֶ֣ה (haq·qō·neh) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7069.htm">Strong's 7069: </a> To erect, create, to procure, by purchase, to own until עַ֖ד (‘aḏ) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm">Strong's 5704: </a> As far as, even to, up to, until, while the Year שְׁנַ֣ת (šə·naṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8141.htm">Strong's 8141: </a> A year of Jubilee. הַיּוֹבֵ֑ל (hay·yō·w·ḇêl) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3104.htm">Strong's 3104: </a> A ram, ram's horn (a wind instrument) In the Jubilee, בַּיֹּבֵ֔ל (bay·yō·ḇêl) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3104.htm">Strong's 3104: </a> A ram, ram's horn (a wind instrument) however, it is to be released, וְיָצָא֙ (wə·yā·ṣā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3318.htm">Strong's 3318: </a> To go, bring, out, direct and proxim so that he may return וְשָׁ֖ב (wə·šāḇ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7725.htm">Strong's 7725: </a> To turn back, in, to retreat, again to his property. לַאֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ׃ (la·’ă·ḥuz·zā·ṯōw) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_272.htm">Strong's 272: </a> Something seized, a possession <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/leviticus/25-28.htm">Leviticus 25:28 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/leviticus/25-28.htm">OT Law: Leviticus 25:28 But if he isn't able to get (Le Lv Lev.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/leviticus/25-27.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Leviticus 25:27"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Leviticus 25:27" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/leviticus/25-29.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Leviticus 25:29"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Leviticus 25:29" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>