John Gill Commentary Leviticus 27:24

"In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth." — Leviticus 27:24 (ASV)

In the year of jubilee, the field shall return unto him of
whom it was bought
Not to him that sanctified it, whether he redeemed it or not; nor to him that bought it of the treasurer of the temple after it was sanctified; but to the original proprietor and owner of it, from whom the person who sanctified it bought it, for so it follows:

[even] to him to whom the possession of the land [did belong] ;
which was a possession he had by inheritance from his fathers, and therefore, according to the law of the year of jubilee, was then to return to him, and could be retained no longer, nor even converted to holy uses; for as it is said in the Misnah ^F8 , "a field of purchase does not go out to the priests in the year of jubilee; for no man can sanctify a thing which is not his own;" since what he had purchased was his only until the year of jubilee, and therefore could not devote it to sacred uses for any longer time.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: Ut supra. (Hilchot Eracin, c. 4. sect. 26.)