And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
But if he chooses not to buy back the field, or if he has already sold the field to someone else, then it can never be bought back again.
This verse is saying that once someone gives up their opportunity to reclaim their dedicated field, or sells it to another person, they permanently lose the right to get it back.
📚 Historical Context
This verse is part of the laws about dedicating property to the Lord in ancient Israel. When someone made a vow to give their field to God, they had a limited time to 'redeem' it by paying its assessed value plus twenty percent. These laws helped maintain the tribal land inheritance system that God established when the Israelites entered the Promised Land.
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