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Leviticus 27:21
When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites regarding the concluding regulations for consecrated property, specifically addressing the economic outcome when a vowed field is neither redeemed nor sold during the Jubilee cycle.
The words — קֹדֶשׁ (Ko.desh) means a holy thing, and הַ/חֵ֑רֶם (ha./Che.rem) means a total destruction or devoted thing, both terms legally marking the field’s shift from private to sacred status.
The thread — The automatic transfer of devoted property to priestly ownership mirrors the allocation of offerings in Numbers 18:14 and Ezekiel 44:29, while the underlying Jubilee release is established in Leviticus 25:10.
Why it lands — The text states that an unredeemed consecrated field becomes priestly property at the Jubilee, requiring the reader to acknowledge that vows creating sacred status carry irreversible legal and economic consequences.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 44:29 They shall eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings. Everything in Israel devoted to the LORD will belong to them.
- Numbers 18:14 Every devoted thing in Israel belongs to you.
- 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 25:28 But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
- Leviticus 25:31 But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 27:28 Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns—whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land—can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
- Joshua 6:17 Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- Ezra 10:8 Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.
- Deuteronomy 13:17 Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,