Leviticus 27:20

But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

19And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.

21But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.

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Cross References

Leviticus 27:24In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 27:15-26

Concerning Things Sanctified. ( b. c. 1490.) 14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the Lord , then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand. 15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. 16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed… Read the whole commentary →

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