Leviticus 25:24
in Leviticus 25Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
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ASV
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
KJV
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
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This verse in Leviticus 25
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
These verses express the principle on which the law of Jubilee, as it regards the land, was based. The land belonged to Yahweh, and it was He who allotted it among the families of Israel for their use. No estate could therefore be alienated in perpetuity, by any human authority, from the family to whose lot it might fall. Lev 25:24 Grant a redemption for the land - i. e. grant power to recover the land to the original holder who had parted with it.
This site's exposition
The land shall not be sold for ever
on Leviticus 25:23-24
Every property rule in the chapter stands on this sentence. The land is mine, and Israel holds it as strangers and sojourners with its owner, which is the same pair of words the book uses of the resident foreigner living among them. A tenant has nothing to sell in perpetuity, so a right of redemption is granted over the whole territory, and the word redemption occurs here for the first time in Scripture.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
, 27 ), and the price must be settled according to the number of years since the sale and before the jubilee. If the person himself was not able to redeem it, his next kinsman might (
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And in all the land of your possession,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְכֹ֖ל | uvekhol | and in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֶ֣רֶץ | ʾeretz | [the] land of | H776 → | 2504 times |
| אֲחֻזַּתְכֶ֑ם | ʾachuzatkhem | possession your | H272 → | 66 times |
| גְּאֻלָּ֖ה | geulah | [the] right of redemption | H1353 → | 14 times |
| תִּתְּנ֥וּ | titenu | you will give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לָאָֽרֶץ׃ ס | laaretz | of the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
וּבְכֹ֖לand in all
uvekholH3605 →5413 times
אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land of
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
אֲחֻזַּתְכֶ֑םpossession your
ʾachuzatkhemH272 →66 times
גְּאֻלָּ֖ה[the] right of redemption
geulahH1353 →14 times
תִּתְּנ֥וּyou will give
titenuH5414 →2011 times
לָאָֽרֶץ׃ סof the land
laaretzH776 →2504 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ephesians 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
it leads to
- 1 Peter 2:24
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- Romans 3:24
and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 1:14
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
- 1 John 1:7–9
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
- 1 Peter 1:18–19
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
- 1 Peter 2:24
Through
Ephesians 1:14who is the pledge of our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession, to the praise of His glory.
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 1:22
placed His seal on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a pledge of what is to come.
- 2 Corinthians 5:5
And God has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.
- 2 Corinthians 1:22
Through
Romans 8:23Not only that, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
it leads to
- Philippians 3:20–21
But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,
- Philippians 3:20–21
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.