Leviticus - 25:26



26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 25:26.

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And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it;
But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:
And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its redemption,
And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient to redeem it;
and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient for its redemption,
And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;
But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,
Et, si non fuerit viro redemptor, sed apprehenderit manus ejus, et invenerit quod sufficit ad ejus redemptionem;

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And if the man have none to redeem it,.... That is, none of kin that was able or willing to redeem it; otherwise no doubt there were persons in the land able to do it at any time, but none he was in connection with, or from whom he could expect such a favour:
and himself be able to redeem it; or if his hand has got, and he has found a sufficiency for his redemption, as the Targum of Jonathan; not that he has found anything that was lost, as Chaskuni glosses it, but by one providence or another, by the blessing of God on his trade and business, is become rich, and it is in the power of his hand to redeem the possession he had sold, he might do it; but, as the same writer observes, he might not borrow and redeem, but must do it with what he had got of his own since the time of sale, and which is also the sense of others (d).
(d) Misn. Eracin, c. 9. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

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