Leviticus 25 · Verse 24

Leviticus 25:24

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
Leviticus 25:24, King James Version

Leviticus 25:24 in other translations

BSBThus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
WEBIn all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
ASVAnd in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
YLTand in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to the land.
DARBYAnd in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
BBEWherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.
WebsterAnd in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

What does Leviticus 25:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 25:23-28

23-28. 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…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 25:23-34

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…

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Leviticus 25:24 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.

וּבְכֹ֖לu.ve.Kholand in allH3605
אֶ֣רֶץ'E.retz[the] land ofH776
אֲחֻזַּתְכֶ֑ם'a.chu.zat.Khempossession yourH272
גְּאֻלָּ֖הge.'u.Lah[the] right of redemptionH1353
תִּתְּנ֥וּti.te.Nuyou will giveH5414
לָאָֽרֶץ\׃\ \סla.'A.retzof the landH776

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

Cross references for Leviticus 25:24

  • Leviticus 25:51-53

    If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

  • Leviticus 25:27

    Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

  • Ephesians 1:14

    Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

  • Leviticus 25:31

    But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

  • Ephesians 4:30

    And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

  • 1 Corinthians 1:30

    But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

  • Romans 8:23

    And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

  • Ephesians 1:7

    In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
redemption.
27,31,51-53; Ro 8:23; 1Co 1:30; Eph 1:7,14; 4:30

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Context

  • Leviticus 25:23

    The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

  • Leviticus 25:24

    And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

  • Leviticus 25:25

    If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

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Leviticus 25:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Por tanto, en toda la tierra de vuestra posesión, otorgaréis redención á la tierra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et dans tout le pays de votre possession, vous donnerez le droit de rachat pour la terre.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und im ganzen Lande eures Eigentums sollt ihr dem Lande Lösung gestatten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
unde cuncta regio possessionis vestræ sub redemptionis conditione vendetur.