Leviticus 25:26

New Life Version

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

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 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 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 will not be sold to be kept forever. For the land is Mine. You are only strangers staying with Me. ²⁴ For all the land you have, you must be willing to let it go. ²⁵ When your brother becomes poor and sells some of his land, then one in his family who is near to him is to come and buy what his brother has sold. ²⁶ But a man may have no one to buy his land, and he himself may become able to buy it again. ²⁷ Then he should add up the years since he sold it, and pay what is left of the price to the man to whom he sold it. So he will return to his own land. ²⁸ But if he is not able to buy it again for himself, then what he has sold will belong to the one who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Year of Jubilee it will be let go and he may return to it. ²⁹ ‘If a man sells a house within the walls of a city, he has the right to buy it back for a whole year from the time he sold it. He can buy it during that year. ³⁰ But if it is not bought back again for him within a whole year, then the house within the city walls belongs forever to the family of the one who bought it. It will not be returned to him in the Year of Jubilee. ³¹ But houses in towns that have no walls will be thought of as open fields. They may be let go, and will be returned in the Year of Jubilee. ³² The houses in the cities of the Levites may be returned to the Levites at any time.

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 showed favor to Esau, because he liked to eat the meat of the animals Esau killed. But Rebekah showed favor to Jacob.

Genesis 25:30
Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red meat, for I am very hungry." That is why his name was called Edom.

Genesis 27:36
Then Esau said, "Was it not right that he was given the name Jacob? Two times now he has taken what should have been mine. He took away my right as a first-born. And now he has taken away the good that was to come to me." Then he said, "Can you not pray that good will come to me also?"

Hosea 12:3
Before he was born he took his brother by the heel. And when he was grown he 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.