Leviticus 25:13
New International Version
“’In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.

New Living Translation
In the Year of Jubilee each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors.

English Standard Version
“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

Berean Standard Bible
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

King James Bible
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

New King James Version
‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.

New American Standard Bible
‘On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.

NASB 1995
‘On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.

NASB 1977
‘On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘On this year of jubilee, each of you shall return to his own possession of land.

Amplified Bible
‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property.

Christian Standard Bible
“In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.

American Standard Version
In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Contemporary English Version
During this year, all property must go back to its original owner.

English Revised Version
In this year of jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"In this jubilee year every slave will be freed in order to return to his property.

Good News Translation
In this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to its original owner.

International Standard Version
"During this year of jubilee, each person is to return to his own land that he has inherited.

Majority Standard Bible
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

NET Bible
"'In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

New Heart English Bible
"'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

Webster's Bible Translation
In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.

World English Bible
“‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
you return each to his possession in this Year of the Jubilee.

Young's Literal Translation
in the year of this jubilee ye turn back each unto his possession.

Smith's Literal Translation
In the year of this jubilee ye shall turn back each to his possession.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.

Catholic Public Domain Version
In the year of the Jubilee, all shall return to their possessions.

New American Bible
In this year of jubilee, then, each of you shall return to your own property.

New Revised Standard Version
In this year of jubilee you shall return, every one of you, to your property.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
In this year of jubilee you shall return every man to his own possession.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
In this year of restoration also return a man to his inheritance.
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
In the year of the release even the jubilee of it, shall each one return to his possession.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Return of Property
13In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property. 14If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.…

Cross References
Leviticus 25:10
So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

Leviticus 27:24
In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.

Numbers 36:4
And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”

Ezekiel 46:17
But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

Isaiah 61:1-2
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, / to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

Jeremiah 34:8-17
After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD / that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage. / So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them, ...

Nehemiah 5:1-13
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. / Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.” / Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our homes to get grain during the famine.” ...

Deuteronomy 15:1-2
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. / This is the manner of remission: Every creditor shall cancel what he has loaned to his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the LORD’s time of release has been proclaimed.

Deuteronomy 15:12-15
If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free. / And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed. / You are to furnish him liberally from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. You shall give to him as the LORD your God has blessed you. ...

Deuteronomy 31:10
Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,

Luke 4:18-19
“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, / to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

Matthew 18:27
His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him.

Galatians 5:1
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

Romans 8:21
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Hebrews 4:9-10
There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. / For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.


Treasury of Scripture

In the year of this jubilee you shall return every man to his possession.

Leviticus 25:10
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

Leviticus 27:17-24
If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand…

Numbers 36:4
And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.

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Leviticus 25
1. the Sabbath of the seventh year
8. The jubilee in the fiftieth year
14. Of oppression
18. A blessing of obedience
23. The redemption of land
29. Of houses
35. Compassion to the poor
39. The usage of bondmen
47. The redemption of servants














In this Year of Jubilee
The "Year of Jubilee" is a profound concept rooted in the Hebrew word "yovel," which refers to the ram's horn trumpet used to proclaim this special year. The Jubilee year, occurring every 50th year, was a time of liberation and restoration. It reflects God's desire for social justice, economic balance, and spiritual renewal. Historically, the Jubilee served as a divine reset, ensuring that no family in Israel would permanently lose their inheritance. This concept underscores God's sovereignty over the land and His provision for His people, reminding us of the ultimate freedom and restoration found in Christ.

each of you
This phrase emphasizes the individual responsibility and blessing bestowed upon every member of the Israelite community. It highlights the personal nature of God's covenant with His people. Each person, regardless of their social or economic status, was to experience the freedom and restoration of the Jubilee. This inclusivity reflects the biblical principle that all are equal before God and that His promises are available to everyone who follows Him.

shall return
The Hebrew root "shuv" means to return or restore. This word carries a sense of repentance and turning back to God, which is central to the spiritual significance of the Jubilee. It is a call to return not only to one's physical property but also to a right relationship with God and community. The act of returning symbolizes a fresh start and a renewed commitment to live according to God's statutes.

to his own property
The concept of "property" in this context is deeply tied to the Promised Land, which was a tangible sign of God's covenant with Israel. Each family's portion of land was a sacred trust, a gift from God that was not to be permanently sold or lost. This provision ensured that the economic disparities would not become entrenched, and it served as a reminder that the land ultimately belongs to God. Spiritually, it points to the inheritance believers have in Christ, an eternal possession that cannot be taken away.

(13) Ye shall return every man unto his possession.--In the year of jubile every man is to be restored to his landed property, whether he had disposed of it by sale or by gift.

Verses 13-17. - The Israelites were only tenants of God. They might regard themselves as owners for fifty years, but at the end of every fifty years the land was to come back to him to whom the Lord had assigned it, or to his representative. It might be bought and sold on that understanding, the value of the purchase being four. d by reckoning the price of the harvests up to the next jubilee day; but in this period only "the years of the fruits" were to be counted, that is, the sabbatical years, in which there would be no harvests, were to be deducted. Ye shall not therefore oppress (or overreach) one another by demanding more for the hind than would be its just value under the limitation of the jubilee law.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In this
הַזֹּ֑את (haz·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

Year
בִּשְׁנַ֥ת (biš·naṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8141: A year

of Jubilee,
הַיּוֹבֵ֖ל (hay·yō·w·ḇêl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3104: A ram, ram's horn (a wind instrument)

each
אִ֖ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

of you shall return
תָּשֻׁ֕בוּ (tā·šu·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

his own property.
אֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ׃ (’ă·ḥuz·zā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 272: Something seized, a possession


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