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New Living Translation

Leviticus 25:26

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Debtor;   Homestead;   Jubilee;   Land;   Poor;   Redemption;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Feast of Jubilee, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Poor;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jubilee;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jubilee, Year of;   Ruth, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Heir;   Jubilee;   King;   Poor;   Redeemer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Cities and Urban Life;   Festivals;   Leviticus;   Number Systems and Number Symbolism;   Pentateuch;   Year of Jubilee;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Avenger of Blood;   Canon of the Old Testament;   Congregation, Assembly;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Hexateuch;   Holiness;   Law;   Leviticus;   Poverty;   Priests and Levites;   Sabbatical Year;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Brother;   Feasts;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jubilee;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Poor;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Agrarian Laws;   Courts, Judicial;   Inheritance;   Jubilee Year;   Ransom;   Redeemer;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - 'Arakin;   Restraints on Alienation;   Sidra;  

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,
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.
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 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 "The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me. 24 "With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back. 25 If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him. 26 If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back, 27 he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land. 28 But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land. 29 "Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back. 30 But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee. 31 But a house in a village—a settlement without fortified walls—will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee. 32 "The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted 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 loved Esau because he enjoyed eating the wild game Esau brought home, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Genesis 25:30
Esau said to Jacob, "I'm starved! Give me some of that red stew!" (This is how Esau got his other name, Edom, which means "red.")
Genesis 27:36
Esau exclaimed, "No wonder his name is Jacob, for now he has cheated me twice. First he took my rights as the firstborn, and now he has stolen my blessing. Oh, haven't you saved even one blessing for me?"
Hosea 12:3
Even in the womb, Jacob struggled with his brother; when he became a man, he even fought with 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.


 
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