Consideration for the poor. ‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell some of his property, then his nearest relative is to come and buy back (redeem) what his relative has sold. Lev 25:25
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
OUT LINE OF THE BOOK LEVITICUS
A Manual of Worship at the Tabernacle
IV. THE LAWS OF HOLINESS AND SACRED FESTIVALS,
3. Sabbatical Year and Year of Jubilee, Lev_25:1-55
28. How did the Year of Jubilee benefit the poor?
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE
‘Therefore you shall carry out My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them, so that you may live securely on the land.
Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.
And if you say, “What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow [seed] or gather in our crops?”
then [this is My answer:] I will order My [special] blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce [sufficient] crops for three years.
When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crops, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.
REDEMPTION OF PROPERTY
‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents with Me. [Heb_11:13; 1Pe_2:11-17]
So in all the country that you possess, you are to provide for the redemption of the land [in the Year of Jubilee].
‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell some of his property, then his nearest relative is to come and buy back (redeem) what his relative has sold.
Or in case a man has no relative [to redeem his property], but he has become more prosperous and has enough to buy it back,
then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his [ancestral] property. [1Ki_21:2-3]
But if he is unable to redeem it, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of the purchaser until the Year of Jubilee; but at the Jubilee it shall revert, and he may return to his property.
‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then his right of redemption remains valid for a full year after its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.
But if it is not redeemed for him within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently and irrevocably to the purchaser throughout his generations. It does not revert back in the Year of Jubilee.
The houses of the villages that have no surrounding walls, however, shall be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and revert in the Year of Jubilee.
As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses in the cities which they possess.
Therefore, what is [purchased] from the Levites may be redeemed [by a Levite], and the house that was sold in the city they possess reverts in the Year of Jubilee, for the houses in the Levite cities are their [ancestral] property among the Israelites.
But the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for that is their permanent possession.
Comments by
F.B.Meyer
On
Leviticus 25:18-34
CONSIDERATION FOR THE POOR
It was good for the land to lie fallow for one year in seven; and it was a wise provision that it should not be sold in perpetuity. This enactment prevented the stamping out of the small land owners, and the accumulation of the land in the hands of a few wealthy families. Though a man might be compelled by stress of circumstances to sell his little farm to a wealthy creditor, when the fiftieth year came around it returned to his possession and there was no further claim on the part of the creditor against him and his estate.
With what joy must debtors and bondservants have heard the notes of the trumpet ring out. For us, the lesson is that our Lord has proclaimed “the acceptable year of the Lord.” All that we lost in Adam is restored to us in the redemption; that is, in Christ Jesus. Nay, we have greatly gained! Where sin abounded, grace has super abounded. For innocence, we have purity; for a garden, a city; for the evening fellowship with God, the knowledge that we are sons and heirs.
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