Leviticus 25:27
Good News Translation
In that case you must pay to the one who bought it a sum that will make up for the years remaining until the next Year of Restoration, when you would in any event recover your land.

New Revised Standard Version
the years since its sale shall be computed and the difference shall be refunded to the person to whom it was sold, and the property shall be returned.

Contemporary English Version
you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again.

New American Bible
the person shall calculate the years since the sale, return the balance to the one to whom it was sold, and thus regain the property.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.

Leviticus 25:50-53 Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant. . . .

Context
The Law of Redemption
26But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it: 27The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.28But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:16
The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.

Leviticus 25:26
But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

Leviticus 25:49
Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself:

Leviticus 25:26
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