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Leviticus 27:20-22
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Leviticus 27:20-22
New English Translation
20 If he does not redeem the field, but sells[a] the field to someone else, he may never redeem it. 21 When it reverts[b] in the Jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field;[c] it will become the priest’s property.[d]
22 “‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased,[e] which is not part of his own landed property,
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- Leviticus 27:20 tn Heb “and if he sells.”
- Leviticus 27:21 tn Heb “When it goes out” (cf. Lev 25:25-34).
- Leviticus 27:21 tn Heb “like the field of the permanent dedication.” The Hebrew word חֵרֶם (kherem) is a much discussed term. In this and the following verses it refers in a general way to the fact that something is permanently devoted to the Lord and therefore cannot be redeemed (cf. v. 20b). See J. A. Naudé, NIDOTTE 2:276-77; N. Lohfink, TDOT 5:180-99, esp. pp. 184, 188, and 198-99; and the numerous explanations in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 483-85.
- Leviticus 27:21 tn Heb “to the priest it shall be his property.”
- Leviticus 27:22 tn Heb “his field of purchase,” which is to be distinguished from his own ancestral “landed property” (cf. v. 16 above).
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