In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
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In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
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In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
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In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 27:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 25:28 But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
- Leviticus 27:20 If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more;
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain By original right, which no other person by vow…
By original right, which no other person by vow or otherwise could give away from him.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And all thy estimation shall be according to the…
And all thy estimation shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary,.... The shekel kept in the sanctuary, which was the standard of all shekels; not that there was a shekel in the sanctuary different from the common one; for every shekel ought to have been as that, of the full weight and worth of it; and the estimation was to be according to such a shekel, and the money paid in such, even in full weight:
twenty gerahs shall be the shekel; which the Targum of Jonathan calls "meahs" or "oboli", one of which was about three halfpence of our money, scarce so much, and weighed near eleven grains, as Bishop Cumberland (i) has calculated: see Eze 45:12.
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(i) Of Scripture Weights and Measures, ch. 4. p. 111.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (24) The field shall return unto him of whom…
(24) The field shall return unto him of whom it was bought.—In accordance with the law laid down in Lev_25:23-28, the field thus vowed did not return to the purchaser in the year of jubile, but to the, hereditary owner, of whom the person who had vowed it to the Lord had bought it.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the man from whom it was bought ... the…
the man from whom it was bought ... the land's owner
These two phases refer to the same person. Normally the land would be bought from its owner.
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the man from whom it was bought
This can be stated in active form. AT: "the man who sold it" (See: Active or Passive)
All the valuations must be set
This can be stated in active form. AT: "The priests must determine the estimated values" (See: Active or Passive)
by the weight of the sanctuary shekel
There were shekels of different weights. This is the one that people had to use in the sanctuary of the sacred tent. (See: Biblical Weight)
Twenty gerahs must be the equivalent of one shekel
The purpose of this sentence is to tell how much the sanctuary shekel weighs. The gerah was the smallest unit of weight that the Israelites used. AT: "One shekel must equal twenty gerahs" (See: Biblical Weight)
Twenty gerahs must be the equivalent of one shekel
If it is necessary to use modern weight units, here is a way to do it. AT: "One shekel must weigh ten grams" (See: Numbers and Biblical Weight)
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