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.
Leviticus 25:27 in other translations
| BSB | he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property. |
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| WEB | then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property. |
| ASV | then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession. |
| YLT | then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold it, and he hath returned to his possession. |
| DARBY | then shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so return unto his possession. |
| BBE | Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property. |
| Webster | Then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession. |
What does Leviticus 25:27 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…
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…
Leviticus 25:27 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Leviticus 25:26
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
- 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.
- Leviticus 25:28
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.
Leviticus 25:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces contará los años de su venta, y pagará lo que quedare al varón á quien vendió, y volverá á su posesión. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | il comptera les années depuis sa vente, et restituera le surplus à celui à qui il avait vendu, et il retournera dans sa possession. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | so soll er die Jahre seines Verkaufs berechnen und das Übrige dem Manne zurückzahlen, an den er verkauft hat, und so wieder zu seinem Eigentum kommen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | computabuntur fructus ex eo tempore quo vendidit: et quod reliquum est, reddet emptori, sicque recipiet possessionem suam. |