Leviticus 27:22

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Si ager emptus est, et non de possessione majorum sanctificatus fuerit Domino,

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Si ager emptus est, et non de possessione majorum sanctificatus fuerit Domino,

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Quod si agrum emptum, qui non est de possessione maiorum, sanctificare voluerit Domino,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his possession: Leviticus 25:10, Leviticus 25:25

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if [a man] sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought,.... With his own money, of some person in poverty and distress, who was obliged to sell it, and which, according to a former law, returned to the original proprietor in the year of jubilee:

which [is] not of the fields of his possession; which he has not by inheritance from his fathers. Jarchi observes, there is a difference between a field bought, and a field possessed; for a field bought is not divided to the priests in the year of jubilee, because a man cannot sanctify it but until the year of jubilee; for in the year of jubilee it would go out of his hands, and return to the owner; wherefore if he comes to redeem it, he must redeem it with the price fixed for the field of possession: the Jewish doctors are divided about a field bought of a father by a son, whether it is a field of purchase or of possession f.

f Misn. Eracin, c. 7. sect. 5.