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Leviticus 27:19-21
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Leviticus 27:19-21
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19 If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it,[a] he must add to it one-fifth of the conversion price[b] and it will belong to him.[c] 20 If he does not redeem the field, but sells[d] the field to someone else, he may never redeem it. 21 When it reverts[e] in the Jubilee, the field will be holy to the Lord like a permanently dedicated field;[f] it will become the priest’s property.[g]
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- Leviticus 27:19 tn Heb “And if redeeming [infinitive absolute] he redeems [finite verb] the field, the one who consecrated it.” For the infinitive absolute used to highlight contrast rather than emphasis see GKC 343 §113.p.
- Leviticus 27:19 tn Heb “the silver of the conversion value.”
- Leviticus 27:19 tn Heb “and it shall rise to him.” See HALOT 1087 s.v. קום 7 for the rendering offered here, but see also the note on the end of v. 14 above (cf. J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 476, 478).
- 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.”
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