If you want to buy your neighbor’s land, then count the number of years since the last Jubilee, {and use that number to decide the right price}. Why? Because he is really only selling you the rights for harvesting crops {until the next Jubilee}.
Leviticus 25:16 - Easy To Read Version If there are many years {before the next Jubilee}, then the price will be high. If the years are few, then the price will be lower. Why? Because your neighbor is really only selling a number of crops to you. {At the next Jubilee the land will again belong to his family.} Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 according to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If the years [to the next Jubilee] are many, you may increase the price, and if the years remaining are few, you shall diminish the price, for the number of the crops is what he is selling to you. American Standard Version (1901) According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee. Common English Bible You will raise the price if there are more years, or lower the price if there are less years because it is the number of harvests that are being sold to you. Catholic Public Domain Version The more years that will remain after the Jubilee, the more the price shall increase, and the less the time is numbered, so much less shall the purchase price be. For he will sell to you the time for the produce. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits. |
If you want to buy your neighbor’s land, then count the number of years since the last Jubilee, {and use that number to decide the right price}. Why? Because he is really only selling you the rights for harvesting crops {until the next Jubilee}.
Then he must count the years since the land was sold. {He must use that number to decide how much to pay for the land.} Then he must buy back the land. Then the land will be his property again.
If there are still many years {before the year of Jubilee}, then the person must give back a large part of the price. It all depends on the numbers of years.
But if the person gives his field after the Jubilee, then the priest must calculate its exact price. He must count the number of years to the next year of Jubilee. Then he must use that number to decide the price.