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21 If you don’t buy the land back by the year of Jubilee, the field will remain holy to the Lord—it will belong to the priest forever. It will be treated like any other thing that was given completely to the Lord.

22 “If you dedicate a field to the Lord that you had bought, and it is not a part of your family’s property,[a] 23 then the priest must count the years to the year of Jubilee and decide the price for the land. Then that land will belong to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 27:22 family’s property In ancient Israel, land was given by God to the family, not the individual. Usually it could not be sold, only leased for up to 50 years.

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