Leviticus 25:16

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Quanto plures anni remanserint post jubilæum, tanto crescet et pretium: et quanto minus temporis numeraveris, tanto minoris et emptio constabit: tempus enim frugum vendet tibi.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ponesque in arca testificationem quam dabo tibi.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quanto plures anni remanserint post iobeleum, tanto crescet et pretium; et quanto minus temporis numeraveris, tanto minoris et emptio constabit: tempus enim frugum vendet tibi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 27:18 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof,.... More was to be asked and required, and should be given for an estate, when, for instance, there were thirty years to the year of jubilee, than when there were but twenty;

and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it; if it wanted but five, or six, or ten years unto it, then, in proportion, less was to be insisted upon and given:

for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits doth he sell unto thee; which also must be considered, how many years of tillage of land, and cultivation of vineyards, c. there were in the account, and how many sabbatical years to be deducted for only according to the number of fruit years was the estate to be valued and sold.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The number of years of the fruits - i. e. according to the number of harvests. The average value of a yearly crop might of course be estimated, and the sabbatical years were to be deducted from the series.