Leviticus 27:20

Christian Standard Bible ®

But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more:

King James Version
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

Lexham English Bible
And if he does not redeem the field and if he sells the field to another man, it may not be redeemed again,

New Century Version
"‘If the person does not buy back the field, or if it is sold to someone else, the first person cannot ever buy it back.

New English Translation
If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.

Amplified Bible
'If he does not redeem the field, but has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.

New American Standard Bible
'Yet if he does not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another person, it may no longer be redeemed;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And if he will not redeeme the fielde, but the Priest sell the fielde to another man, it shalbe redeemed no more.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed;

Contemporary English Version
but you cannot buy it back once someone else has bought it.

Complete Jewish Bible
If the seller does not wish to redeem the field, or if [the treasurer for the cohanim] has already sold the field to someone else, it can no longer be redeemed.

Darby Translation
but if he do not redeem the field, or if he sell the field to another man, it cannot be redeemed any more;

Easy-to-Read Version
If you don't buy the field back and the land is sold to someone else, you cannot get the land back.

English Standard Version
But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore.

George Lamsa Translation
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he sell it to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

Good News Translation
If you sell the field to someone else without first buying it back from the Lord , you lose the right to buy it back.

Literal Translation
And if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it is not to be redeemed any more.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So shal it be his. Yf he wil not lowse it out, but selleth it vnto another, then shal he redeme it nomore:

American Standard Version
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more:

Bible in Basic English
But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And if he wyll not redeeme the fielde, but selleth the fielde to another man: he [that vowed] may redeeme it no more.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

King James Version (1611)
And if hee will not redeeme the field, or if he haue sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if he do not redeem the field, but should sell the field to another man, he shall not after redeem it.

English Revised Version
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more:

Berean Standard Bible
If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but if he nyle ayenbie, but it is seeld to ony othir man, he that avowide schal `no more mowe ayenbie it;

Young's Literal Translation
and if he do not redeem the field, or if he hath sold the field to another man, it is not redeemed any more;

Update Bible Version
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore:

Webster's Bible Translation
And if he will not redeem the field, or if he shall have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

World English Bible
If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more:

New King James Version
But if he does not want to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed anymore;

New Living Translation
But if he does not want to buy it back, and it is sold to someone else, the field can no longer be bought back.

New Life Bible
But if he does not want to buy the field again, or has sold the field to another man, it cannot be bought again.

New Revised Standard
but if the field is not redeemed, or if it has been sold to someone else, it shall no longer be redeemable.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But if he will not redeem the field, but have sold the field to another man, it shall be redeemable no longer;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And if he will not redeem it, but it be sold to any other man, he that vowed it, may not redeem it any more.

Revised Standard Version
But if he does not wish to redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Yet if he will not redeem the field, but has sold the field to another man, it may no longer be redeemed;

Contextual Overview

¹⁴“When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it. ¹⁵But if the one who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will be his. ¹⁶“If a man consecrates to the Lord any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of fifty silver shekels for every five bushels of barley seed. ¹⁷If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your assessment. ¹⁸But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him in proportion to the years left until the next Year of Jubilee, so that your assessment will be reduced. ¹⁹If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and the field will transfer back to him. ²⁰But if he does not redeem the field or if he has sold it to another man, it is no longer redeemable. ²¹When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the Lord like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property. ²²“If a person consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding, ²³then the priest will calculate for him the amount of the assessment up to the Year of Jubilee, and the person will pay the assessed value on that day as a holy offering to the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Leviticus 27:24 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 24:12
“Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “make this happen for me today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Exodus 20:7
Do not misuse the name of the Lord your God, because the Lord will not leave anyone unpunished who misuses his name.

Job 13:7
Would you testify unjustly on God’s behalfor speak deceitfully for him?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if he will not redeem the field,.... He that sanctified it, does not care to give for it the settled price of the fifth part besides, but chooses it should be disposed of for the uses he devoted it to:

or if he have sold the field to another man; that is, either the original owner having bought it and sold it again, or rather the priest, the treasurer, as Jarchi, who had the disposal of it, for the uses and purposes for which it was devoted, when sold by him:

it shall not be redeemed any more; it was not in the power of him that sanctified it to make a purchase of it again; the buyer of it might not sell it to him again, for otherwise, by that means, he might come at it cheaper than the law directs; besides, there is another reason for it, which is suggested in Leviticus 27:21.