Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Leviticus 27:22
And if [a man] sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which [is] not of the fields of his possession;
And if [a man] sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought,…. With his own money, of some person in poverty and distress, who was obliged to sell it, and which, according to a former law, returned to the original proprietor in the year of jubilee:
which [is] not of the fields of his possession; which he has not by inheritance from his fathers. Jarchi observes, there is a difference between a field bought, and a field possessed; for a field bought is not divided to the priests in the year of jubilee, because a man cannot sanctify it but until the year of jubilee; for in the year of jubilee it would go out of his hands, and return to the owner; wherefore if he comes to redeem it, he must redeem it with the price fixed for the field of possession: the Jewish doctors are divided about a field bought of a father by a son, whether it is a field of purchase or of possession f.
f Misn. Eracin, c. 7. sect. 5.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Verses 22-25:
A man might sanctify to the Lord a field that he had bought, which was not his inheritance or ancestral possession. The priest calculated the redemption price after the prescribed formula. The full amount was due and payable on the day of the vow. And the property reverted to the original owner in the Jubilee Year.
All financial transactions were to be on the basis of the shekel of the temple, about .35 ounces per shekel.
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary
(22) And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought.But if a man vows a field which he has acquired by purchase, and which is only his till the next jubile, when it reverts to its original owner (see Lev. 25:25-28), the case is necessarily different. Such a leased field, when vowed to the Lord, is to be dealt with as follows :
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
22-24. Sanctify a field bought In the case of the vow of a field not inherited but purchased, the amount of the valuation was to be paid all at once in that day, that is, the day of the estimation. From this we infer that the amount of the vow of an hereditary field was paid annually if the proprietor so elected. In the jubilee the purchased field which had been vowed did not revert to the buyer, but to the hereditary owner. The reason for this law is, to prevent a patrimonial inheritance from being finally estranged from any family or tribe in Israel. See Lev 25:23-28, notes.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
The Redemption Price Of Other Fields ( Lev 27:22-25 ).
Lev 27:22-24
“And if he sanctify to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not of the field of his possession, then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your estimation to the year of jubilee, and he shall give your estimation in that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh. In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.”
But if a man vows and sets apart as holy for Yahweh a field which is not of the land of his possession, at the year of Yubile it returns to the man whose possession it is. Meanwhile the man who vowed it must pay a redemption price equal to its value to the year of Yubile plus one fifth so that he may again use the field.
Lev 27:25
“And all your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.”
The shekel used in these estimations is to be the shekel of the sanctuary as quoted.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Lev 27:22 And if [a man] sanctify unto the LORD a field which he hath bought, which [is] not of the fields of his possession;
Ver. 22. Of his possession, ] i.e., Not his patrimony, but his purchase.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
his possession: Lev 25:10, Lev 25:25
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Lev 27:22-23. Not of the fields of his possession His patrimony or inheritance. Thy estimation That is, the price which thou, O Moses, by my direction, hast set in such cases. To the jubilee As much as it is worth, for that space of time between the making of the vow and the year of jubilee: for he had no right to it for any longer time, as the next verse tells us. As a holy thing As that which is to be consecrated to God instead of the land redeemed by it.