Leviticus 25:24

Easy-to-Read Version

People might sell their land, but the family will always get their land back.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

King James Version
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Lexham English Bible
And in all your property's land you must provide redemption for the land.

New Century Version
People might sell their land, but it must always be possible for the family to get its land back.

New English Translation
In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.

Amplified Bible
'So in all the country that you possess, you are to provide for the redemption of the land [in the Year of Jubilee].

New American Standard Bible
'So for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore in all the land of your possession ye shall graunt a redemption for the lande.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus for every piece of land of your possession, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

Contemporary English Version
When property is being sold, the original owner must be given the first chance to buy it.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, when you sell your property, you must include the right of redemption.

Darby Translation
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

English Standard Version
And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.

George Lamsa Translation
And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

Good News Translation
When land is sold, the right of the original owner to buy it back must be recognized.

Christian Standard Bible®
You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.

Literal Translation
And you shall grant a redemption for the land in all the land of your possession.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And in all youre lande shall ye geue the londe to lowse.

American Standard Version
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Bible in Basic English
Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
In all the lande of your possession, ye shal graunt a redemption for ye lande.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

King James Version (1611)
And in all the land of your possession, ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And in every land of your possession, ye shall allow ransoms for the land.

English Revised Version
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Berean Standard Bible
Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
wherfor al the cuntre of youre possessioun schal be seeld vndur the condicioun of ayenbiyng.

Young's Literal Translation
and in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to the land.

Update Bible Version
And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

Webster's Bible Translation
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

World English Bible
In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

New King James Version
And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.

New Living Translation
"With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back.

New Life Bible
For all the land you have, you must be willing to let it go.

New Revised Standard
Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, in all the land of your possession, a right of redemption, shall ye give to the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.

Revised Standard Version
And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

Contextual Overview

²³ "The land really belongs to me, so you cannot sell it permanently. You are only foreigners and travelers living on my land with me. ²⁴ People might sell their land, but the family will always get their land back. ²⁵ If someone in your country becomes very poor and must sell their property, a close relative must come and buy it back. ²⁶ If there is not a close relative to buy back the land, the person might get enough money to buy it back. ²⁷ Then the years must be counted since the land was sold. That number must be used to decide how much to pay for the land. The person must then buy back the land, and it will be their property again. ²⁸ But if this first owner cannot find enough money to buy the land back, it will stay in the hands of the one who bought it until the year of Jubilee. Then during that special celebration, the land will go back to the first owner's family. So the property will again belong to the right family. ²⁹ "Anyone who sells a home in a walled city still has the right to get it back until a full year after it was sold. Their right to get the house back will continue one year. ³⁰ But if the owner does not buy back the house before a full year is finished, the house that is in the walled city will belong to the one who bought it and to their descendants. The house will not go back to the first owner at the time of Jubilee. ³¹ Towns without walls around them will be treated like open fields. So houses built in these small towns will go back to the first owners at the time of Jubilee. ³² "But about the cities of the Levites: The Levites can buy back at any time their houses in the cities that belong to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

redemption: Leviticus 25:27, Leviticus 25:31, Leviticus 25:51-53, Romans 8:23, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Ephesians 1:7, Ephesians 1:14, Ephesians 4:30

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 7:13 - the seller

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in all the land of your possession,.... Which they should possess in the land of Canaan, whatever part of it any of them should enjoy:

ye shall grant a redemption for the land; that is, whenever any estate in it was sold through necessity, the buyer was obliged to grant a liberty to the seller to redeem it, when it was in his power to do it, or any or his relations, especially after two years; so Jarchi observes, he that sells his possession may redeem it after two years, either he himself or he that is near akin to him, nor can the buyer hinder it; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These verses express the principle on which the law of Jubilee, as it regards the land, was based. The land belonged to Yahweh, and it was He who allotted it among the families of Israel for their use. No estate could therefore be alienated in perpetuity, by any human authority, from the family to whose lot it might fall.

Leviticus 25:24

Grant a redemption for the land - i. e. grant power to recover the land to the original holder who had parted with it.