Leviticus 25:26

Good News Translation

If you have no relative to buy it back, you may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back yourself.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If a man have no one to redeem it, and he be grew rich and find sufficient to redeem it;

King James Version
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

Lexham English Bible
But if a man does not have a redeemer, then he prospers and he finds enough for his redemption,

New Century Version
If there is not a close relative to buy the land back, but if the person makes enough money to be able to buy it back,

New English Translation
If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,

Amplified Bible
'Or in case a man has no relative [to redeem his property], but he has become more prosperous and has enough to buy it back,

New American Standard Bible
'Or in case someone has no redeemer, but recovers to find sufficient means for its redemption,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And if he haue no redeemer, but hath gotten and founde to bye it out,

Legacy Standard Bible
Or in case a man has no kinsman redeemer, but recovers his means and finds sufficient payment for its redemption,

Contemporary English Version
if that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it,

Complete Jewish Bible
If the seller has no one to redeem it but becomes rich enough to redeem it himself,

Darby Translation
And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its redemption,

Easy-to-Read Version
If there is not a close relative to buy back the land, the person might get enough money to buy it back.

English Standard Version
If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

George Lamsa Translation
And if the man has no one to redeem it, and himself has sufficient means and is able to redeem it,

Christian Standard Bible®
If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land,

Literal Translation
But a man, when there is not one to redeem him, and his own hand has reached out, and he has enough for its redemption,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But whan a man hath none to redeme it, and ca get so moch with his hande as to redeme one parte,

American Standard Version
And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it;

Bible in Basic English
And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yf he haue no man to redeeme it, and his hande hath gotten and founde as much as may be sufficient to bye it out agayne:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient means to redeem it;

King James Version (1611)
And if the man haue none to redeeme it, and himselfe bee able to redeeme it:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficient money, even his ransom;

English Revised Version
And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient to redeem it;

Berean Standard Bible
Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sotheli if he hath no nyy kynesman, and he may fynde prijs to ayenbie,

Young's Literal Translation
and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient [for] its redemption,

Update Bible Version
And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he is waxed rich and finds enough to redeem it;

Webster's Bible Translation
And if the man shall have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

World English Bible
If a man have no one to redeem it, and he be grew rich and find sufficient to redeem it;

New King James Version
Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it,

New Living Translation
If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back,

New Life Bible
But a man may have no one to buy his land, and he himself may become able to buy it again.

New Revised Standard
If the person has no one to redeem it, but then prospers and finds sufficient means to do so,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when, any man, hath no kinsman, - but his own hand getteth enough, so that he findeth what is needed to redeem it,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

Revised Standard Version
If a man has no one to redeem it, and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

Contextual Overview

²³ Your land must not be sold on a permanent basis, because you do not own it; it belongs to God, and you are like foreigners who are allowed to make use of it. ²⁴ When land is sold, the right of the original owner to buy it back must be recognized. ²⁵ If any of you Israelites become poor and are forced to sell your land, your closest relative is to buy it back. ²⁶ If you have no relative to buy it back, you may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back yourself. ²⁷ In that case you must pay to the one who bought it a sum that will make up for the years remaining until the next Year of Restoration, when you would in any event recover your land. ²⁸ 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. ²⁹ If you sell a house in a walled city, you have the right to buy it back during the first full year from the date of sale. ³⁰ But if you do not buy it back within the year, you lose the right of repurchase, and the house becomes the permanent property of the purchasers and their descendants; it will not be returned in the Year of Restoration. ³¹ But houses in unwalled villages are to be treated like fields; the original owner has the right to buy them back, and they are to be returned in the Year of Restoration. ³² However, Levites have the right to buy back at any time their property in the cities assigned to them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

himself be able to redeem it: Heb. his hand hath attained, and found sufficiency, Leviticus 5:7, *marg.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:10 - every man Leviticus 25:47 - sojourner or stranger wax rich Leviticus 25:49 - or if he be Numbers 5:8 - have no Deuteronomy 16:10 - a tribute Judges 9:33 - as thou shalt find

Cross-References

Genesis 25:28
Isaac preferred Esau, because he enjoyed eating the animals Esau killed, but Rebecca preferred Jacob.

Genesis 25:30
and said to Jacob, "I'm starving; give me some of that red stuff." (That is why he was named Edom.)

Genesis 27:36
Esau said, "This is the second time that he has cheated me. No wonder his name is Jacob. He took my rights as the first-born son, and now he has taken away my blessing. Haven't you saved a blessing for me?"

Hosea 12:3
Their ancestor Jacob struggled with his twin brother Esau while the two of them were still in their mother's womb; when Jacob grew up, he fought against God—

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if the man have none to redeem it,.... That is, none of kin that was able or willing to redeem it; otherwise no doubt there were persons in the land able to do it at any time, but none he was in connection with, or from whom he could expect such a favour:

and himself be able to redeem it; or if his hand has got, and he has found a sufficiency for his redemption, as the Targum of Jonathan; not that he has found anything that was lost, as Chaskuni glosses it, but by one providence or another, by the blessing of God on his trade and business, is become rich, and it is in the power of his hand to redeem the possession he had sold, he might do it; but, as the same writer observes, he might not borrow and redeem, but must do it with what he had got of his own since the time of sale, and which is also the sense of others d.

d Misn. Eracin, c. 9. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.