Leviticus 27:21

and the field has been, in its going out in the Jubilee, holy to YHWH as a field which is devoted; his possession is for the priest.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.

In Context

20and if he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold the field to another man, it is not redeemed anymore;

22And if he sanctifies a field of his purchase to YHWH, which [is] not of the fields of his possession,

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:28And if his hand has not found sufficiency to give back to him, then his sold thing has been in the hand of him who buys it until the Year of Jubilee; and it has gone out in the Jubilee, and he has returned to his possession.

Leviticus 27:28Only, no devoted thing which a man devotes to YHWH of all that he has, of man, and beast, and of the field of his possession, is sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to YHWH.

Deuteronomy 13:17and nothing from any of that [which is] devoted stays in your hand, so that YHWH turns back from the fierceness of His anger, and has given mercies to you, and loved you, and multiplied you, as He has sworn to your fathers,

Ezra 10:8and everyone who does not come in by the third day, according to the counsel of the heads and the elderly, all his substance is devoted, and himself separated from the assembly of the expulsion.

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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