Leviticus 25:15

If you buy land, the price that you will pay will depend on the number of years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. If someone sells land to you, he will charge a price that is determined by the number of years until the next Year of Celebration.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

In Context

14‘If you sell some of your land to a fellow Israeli or if you buy some land from one of them, you must treat that person fairly:

16If there will be many years before the next Year of Celebration, the price will be higher; if there will be only a few years until the next Year of Celebration, the price will be lower. You could say that what he is really selling you is the number of crops which you can harvest before the next Year of Celebration.

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Cross References

Philippians 4:5Act in such a way that everyone can know that you are gentle. The Lord is coming soon.

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:9-23

Institution of the Jubilee; the Year of the Jubilee. ( b. c. 1490.) 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the… Read the whole commentary →

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