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The Darby Translation

Leviticus 27:24

In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought—to him to whom the land belonged.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jubilee;   Land;   Property;   Redemption;   Vows;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Dedication;   Feast of Jubilee, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Anathema;   Vow;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Priest;   Redemption;   Vow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kinsman-Redeemer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Corban;   Festivals, Religious;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Vow;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Avenger;   Festivals;   Leviticus;   Year of Jubilee;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronology of the New Testament;   Sabbatical Year;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Priesthood, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Inheritance;   Jubilee Year;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - 'Arakin;   Sidra;   Valuation;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
King James Version
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Lexham English Bible
In the Year of the Jubilee the field shall return to the one who bought it from him, to the one whose property the land is.
New Century Version
At the year of Jubilee, the land will go back to its first owner, to the family who sold the land.
New English Translation
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.
Amplified Bible
'In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was purchased, to whom the land belonged [as his ancestral inheritance].
New American Standard Bible
'In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But in the yeere of Iubile, the fielde shall returne vnto him, of whome it was bought: to him, I say, whose inheritance the land was.
Legacy Standard Bible
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.
Contemporary English Version
However, on the next Year of Celebration, the land will go back to the family of its original owner.
Complete Jewish Bible
In the year of yovel the field will revert to the person from whom it was bought, that is, to the person to whose tribal possession it belongs.
Easy-to-Read Version
At the year of Jubilee, the land will go to the family that originally owned the land.
English Standard Version
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
George Lamsa Translation
In the year of the jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the inheritance of the land did belong.
Good News Translation
At the Year of Restoration the field shall be returned to the original owner or to the descendants.
Christian Standard Bible®
In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.
Literal Translation
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom he bought it, to him who owns it in the land.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But in ye yeare of Iubilye it shal returne vnto him that bought it, yt it maye be his inheritaunce in the londe.
American Standard Version
In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.
Bible in Basic English
In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the yere of Iubilee, the fielde shall returne vnto him of whom it was bought, to hym whose inheritaunce of lande it was.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.
King James Version (1611)
In the yeere of the Iubile, the field shall returne vnto him of whom it was bought, euen to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in the year of release the land shall be restored to the man of whom the other bought it, whose the possession of the land was.
English Revised Version
In the year of jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.
Berean Standard Bible
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought-the original owner of the land.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
forsothe in the iubilee it schal turne ayen to the formere lord that seelde it, and `haue he in to the eritage of his possessioun.
Young's Literal Translation
in the year of the jubilee the field returneth to him from whom he bought it, to him whose [is] the possession of the land.
Update Bible Version
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
Webster's Bible Translation
In the year of the jubilee, the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, [even] to him to whom the possession of the land [belonged].
World English Bible
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
New King James Version
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to the one who owned the land as a possession.
New Living Translation
In the Year of Jubilee the field must be returned to the person from whom he purchased it, the one who inherited it as family property.
New Life Bible
In the Year of Jubilee the field will return from him who bought it to the one who owned it first.
New Revised Standard
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought, whose holding the land is.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the year of the jubilee, shall the field return unto him from whom he bought it to him whose it was as a possession in the land.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.
Revised Standard Version
In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession by inheritance.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'In the year of jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom he bought it, to whom the possession of the land belongs.

Contextual Overview

14 And when any one halloweth his house, that it may be holy to Jehovah, the priest shall value it, [judging] between good and bad: as the priest shall value it, so shall it stand. 15 And if he that halloweth it will redeem his house, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be his. 16 And if a man hallow to Jehovah [part] of a field of his possession, thy valuation shall be according to what may be sown in it: the homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he hallow his field from the year of jubilee, according to thy valuation shall it stand; 18 but if he hallow his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, until the year of the jubilee; and there shall be a reduction from thy valuation. 19 And if he that hallowed the field will in any wise redeem it, he shall add the fifth of the money of thy valuation unto it, and it shall be assured to him; 20 but if he do not redeem the field, or if he sell the field to another man, it cannot be redeemed any more; 21 and the field, when it goeth out in the jubilee, shall be holy to Jehovah, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's. 22 And if he hallow to Jehovah a field that he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession, 23 the priest shall reckon unto him the amount of thy valuation, unto the year of the jubilee; and he shall give thy valuation on that day, [as] holy to Jehovah.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 27:20, Leviticus 25:28

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:9 - jubilee

Cross-References

Genesis 27:7
Bring me venison, and prepare me a savoury dish, that I may eat, and bless thee before Jehovah, before my death.
Genesis 27:8
And now, my son, hearken to my voice in that which I command thee.
1 Samuel 21:2
And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business whereon I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and I have directed the young men to such and such a place.
1 Samuel 21:13
And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scratched on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.
1 Samuel 27:10
So Achish said, Have ye not made a raid to-day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
2 Samuel 14:5
And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.
Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are an abomination to Jehovah; but they that deal truly are his delight.
Proverbs 30:8
Remove far from me vanity and lies; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the bread of my daily need:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the year of jubilee, the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought,.... Not to him that sanctified it, whether he redeemed it or not; nor to him that bought it of the treasurer of the temple after it was sanctified; but to the original proprietor and owner of it, of whom he bought it that sanctified it, for so it follows:

[even] to him to whom the possession of the land [did belong]; which was a possession of his he had by inheritance from his fathers, and therefore, according to the law of the year of jubilee, was then to return to him, and could be retained no longer, nor even converted to holy uses; for as it is said in the Misnah h,

"a field of purchase goes not out to the priests in the year of jubilee; for no man can sanctify a thing which is not his own;''

as what he had purchased was no longer his than to the year of jubilee, and therefore could not devote it to sacred uses for any longer time.

h Ut supra. (Hilchot Eracin, c. 4. sect. 26.)


 
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