“With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back.
Parallel translations
- WEB In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
- KJV And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
- BSB Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
- NKJV And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.
- NASB So for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.
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Quick answer
Throughout the land, the right of redemption was to be granted for property. Land could always be bought back by the family.
Overview
God required that a way always remain open to recover sold land, preserving each family's inheritance. This redemption principle wove mercy and restoration into Israel's property law. The concept of redemption, buying back what was lost, foreshadows Christ our Redeemer, who recovers what sin forfeited (Galatians 3:13).
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Cross-references · 8
- Lev 25:27then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
- Lev 25:51–53If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Lev 25:31But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
- Eph 1:14who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.
- Eph 4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
- Eph 1:7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
- 1 Cor 1:30Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
- Rom 8:23Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.
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