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Green's Literal Translation

Leviticus 27:24

In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom he bought it, to him who owns it in the land.

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.
Darby Translation
In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought—to him to whom the land belonged.
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.
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 a man sanctifies his house as a holy thing to Jehovah, then the priest shall value it, whether good or bad. As the priest values it, so it shall stand. 15 And if he who is sanctifying shall redeem the house, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of its valuation, and it shall become his. 16 And if a man sanctifies a field of his property to Jehovah, then your valuation shall be according to its seed; a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver. 17 If he shall sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, it shall stand according to your valuation. 18 And if he shall sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall count to him the silver according to the years which are left, to the year of the jubilee. And it shall be deducted from your estimation. 19 And if he sanctifying the field really will redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of the silver of your evaluation to it, and it shall rise to become his. 20 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. 21 And the field shall be holy to Jehovah when it goes out in the jubilee, as a field which is devoted. It shall be a possession to the priest. 22 And if he should devote a field of his purchase, which is not of the fields of his possession, 23 then the priest shall count to him the amount of your valuation to the year of jubilee. And he shall give your valuation in that day, a holy thing 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 game to me and make delicious things that I may eat, that I may bless you before Jehovah before my death.
Genesis 27:8
And now my son hear my voice, that which I command you.
1 Samuel 21:2
And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a matter; and he said to me, Do not let a man know anything of the matter about which I am sending you, and which I told you.And I have directed the young men to suchand such a place.
1 Samuel 21:13
And he changed his behavior before their eyes, and pretended himself to be insane in their hand, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall onto his beard.
1 Samuel 27:10
And Achish said, Did you not make raids today? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and to the south of the Kenites.
2 Samuel 14:5
And the king said to her, What shall be to you? And she said, Truly I am a widow woman, and my husband died.
Job 15:5
For your iniquity teaches your mouth; and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Proverbs 12:19
The lips of truth are established forever, but a lying tongue lasts only while I wink.
Proverbs 12:22
Lying lips are hateful to Jehovah, but those who deal faithfulness are His delight.
Proverbs 30:8
Remove vanity and a lying word far from me, do not give me poverty or riches; tear for me my portion of bread,

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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