Leviticus 25:28
Good News Translation
But if you do not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the one who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.

New Revised Standard Version
But if there are not sufficient means to recover it, what was sold shall remain with the purchaser until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and the property shall be returned.

Contemporary English Version
But if you don't have the money to pay the present owner a fair price, you will have to wait until the Year of Celebration, when the property will once again become yours.

New American Bible
But if the person does not acquire sufficient means to buy back the land, what was sold shall remain in the possession of the purchaser until the year of the jubilee, when it must be released and returned to the original owner.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.

and in the

Leviticus 25:13 In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.

he shall

Isaiah 35:9,10 No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go up by it, nor be found there: but they shall walk there that shall be delivered. . . .

Jeremiah 32:15 For thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Houses, and fields, and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

1 Corinthians 15:52-54 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed. . . .

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. . . .

1 Peter 1:4,5 Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you, . . .

Context
The Law of Redemption
27The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again. 28But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.29He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:10
And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:

Leviticus 25:13
In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.

Leviticus 25:29
He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired.

Leviticus 25:30
If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.

Leviticus 25:27
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