Leviticus 25:28

Leviticus 25:28 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
• New International Version (NIV)But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.
• English Standard Version (ESV)But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
• New King James Version (NKJV)But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

Context of Leviticus 25:28

26If a man has no kinsman-redeemer, but he himself recovers and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 27then let him reckon the years since its sale and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it. Then he will return to his property. But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold is to remain in the hand of the one who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. Then in the Jubilee it shall be released, so he may return to his property. 29“If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he has the right of redemption. 30But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city will belong permanently to the one who bought it throughout his generations. It will not be released in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:28 word by word

וְאִ֨ם לֹֽא־מָֽצְאָ֜ה יָד֗וֹ דֵּי֮ הָשִׁ֣יב לוֹ֒ וְהָיָ֣ה מִמְכָּר֗וֹ בְּיַד֙ הַקֹּנֶ֣ה אֹת֔וֹ עַ֖ד שְׁנַ֣ת הַיּוֹבֵ֑ל וְיָצָא֙ בַּיֹּבֵ֔ל וְשָׁ֖ב לַאֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• But if heיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027
• be not ableדַּיday · sufficiencyH1767
• to restoreשׁוּבshûb · to return: payH7725
• to restoreמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• to him, then that which is soldמִמְכָּרmimkâr · saleH4465
• of him that hath boughtקָנָהqânâh · to buyH7069
• it until the yearשָׁנָהshâneh shânâh · yearH8141
• of jubileיוֹבֵלyôbêl yôbêl · jubilee/hornH3104
• it shall go outיָצָאyâtsâ' · to come out: sendH3318
• and he shall returnשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• unto his possessionאֲחֻזָּה'ăchûzzâh · possessionH272

Cross-references for Leviticus 25:28

• Leviticus 25:13“In this Year of Jubilee each of you will return to his property.
• Isaiah 35:9No lion will be there. No ravenous beast will go up on it. They will not be found there. But the redeemed will walk there.
• Jeremiah 32:15For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “Houses and fields and vineyards will yet again be bought in this land.”
• 1 Corinthians 15:52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last shofar. For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you may not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
• 1 Peter 1:4An incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading inheritance has been reserved in heaven for you.

Commentaries on Leviticus 25:28

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28It shall go out - i. e. it shall be set free.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-34Verses 23-34 If the land were not redeemed before the year of jubilee, it then returned to him that sold or mortgaged it. This was a figure of the free grace of God in Christ; by which, and not by any price or merit of our own, we are restored to the favour of God. Houses in walled cities were more the fruits of their own industry than land in the country, which was the direct gift of God's bounty; therefore if a man sold a house in a city, he might…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-55Just as seven days made a week ending in a Sabbath day, every seven years ended with a Sabbath year. After seven Sabbath years, or 49 years, came a special year called the Year of Jubilee. Like so many holy days, these times were meant for reflecting on Israel's shared identity and their relationship with God. Every Israelite, both free and servant, had a place in God’s kingdom. So, those bound in servitude were set free during the Year of Jubilee…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 23-2823-28. The land shall not be sold for ever--or, "be quite cut off," as the Margin better renders it. The land was God's, and, in prosecution of an important design, He gave it to the people of His choice, dividing it among their tribes and families--who, however, held it of Him merely as tenants-at-will and had no right or power of disposing of it to strangers. In necessitous circumstances, individuals might effect a temporary sale. But they possessed the…Read the comment

Topics related to Leviticus 25:28

• Agriculture
• Debtor
• Homestead
• Jubilee
• Land
• Poor
• Redemption

In the dictionaries

• Accord
• Compel
• Decay
• Fill
• Increase
• Kinsman
• Poor
• Redeem
• Redemption
• Rest

Commentaries on Leviticus 25

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings