Leviticus 25 · Verse 13

Leviticus 25:13

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
Leviticus 25:13, King James Version

Leviticus 25:13 in other translations

BSBIn this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
WEB“‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
ASVIn this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.
YLTin the year of this jubilee ye turn back each unto his possession.
DARBYIn this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.
BBEIn this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.
WebsterIn the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.

What does Leviticus 25:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
13. ye shall return every man unto his possession, &c.--Inheritances, from whatever cause, and how frequently soever they had been alienated, came back into the hands of the original proprietors. This law of entail, by which the right heir could never be excluded, was a provision of great wisdom for preserving families and tribes perfectly distinct, and their genealogies faithfully recorded, in order that all might have evidence to establish their right to the ancestral property. Hence the tribe and family of Christ were readily discovered at his birth.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 25:8-22

The word "jubilee" signifies a peculiarly animated sound of the silver trumpets. This sound was to be made on the evening of the great day of atonement; for the proclamation of gospel liberty and salvation results from the sacrifice of the Redeemer. It was provided that the lands should not be sold away from their families. They could only be disposed of, as it were, by leases till the year of jubilee, and then…

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Leviticus 25:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

בִּשְׁנַ֥תbish.Natin [the] year ofH8141
הַיּוֹבֵ֖לhai.yo.Velthe jubileeH3104
הַזֹּ֑אתha.Zot<the> thisH2063
תָּשֻׁ֕בוּta.Shu.vuyou will returnH7725
אִ֖ישׁ'isheach oneH376
אֶל\־'el-toH413
אֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ\׃'a.chu.za.Topossession hisH272

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Leviticus 25:13

  • Leviticus 25:10

    And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

  • Leviticus 27:17-24

    If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand. But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation. And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more. …

  • Numbers 36:4

    And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
10; 27:17-24; Nu 36:4

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Context

  • Leviticus 25:12

    For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

  • Leviticus 25:13

    In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

  • Leviticus 25:14

    And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

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Leviticus 25:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		En este año de jubileo volveréis cada uno á su posesión.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		En cette année du Jubilé, vous retournerez chacun dans sa possession.
German
Elberfelder 1871		In diesem Jahre des Jubels sollt ihr ein jeder wieder zu seinem Eigentum kommen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Anno jubilæi, redient omnes ad possessiones suas.