“But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.”
But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property. The Jubilee as the ultimate guarantee: if the impoverished seller cannot afford self-redemption and has no kinsman-redeemer, the land returns at the Jubilee automatically. The Jubilee is the covenant's provision for those who have no other recourse. The community that cannot recover economically on its own receives the covenant's structural provision at the appointed time.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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