Leviticus 27:20

But if you don't buy the field back, or if you've already sold it to someone else, it can't ever be bought back.

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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

19But if you want to buy your field back, you have to add one-fifth to its value in payment. Then it will belong to you again.

21When the Jubilee comes, the field will become holy, in the same way as a field devoted to the Lord. It will become the property of the priests.

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Cross References

Leviticus 27:24In the Jubilee Year, ownership of the field shall revert back to the person you bought it from—to the original owner of the land.

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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