Leviticus 25:23-34

New American Standard Bible

The Law of Redemption

²³ ‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, because ^(A)the land is Mine; for ^(B)you are only strangers and residents with Me. ²⁴ So for every ^[a]piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

²⁵ ‘^(C)If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor that he sells part of his property, then his closest ^[b]redeemer is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. ²⁶ Or in case someone has no redeemer, but ^[c]recovers to find sufficient means for its redemption, ^27 (D)then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property. ²⁸ But if ^[d]he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall ^[e]revert, so that ^(E)he may return to his property.

²⁹ ‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year after its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year. ³⁰ But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not ^[f]revert in the jubilee. ³¹ The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall, shall be regarded ^[g]as open fields; they have redemption rights and ^[h]revert in the jubilee. ³² As for the ^(F)cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession. ³³ What, therefore, ^[i]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale ^[j]in the city of this possession ^[k]reverts in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. ^34 (G)But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their permanent possession.