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21 then [this is My answer:] I will order My [special] blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce [sufficient] crops for three years. 22 When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crops, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.

The Law of Redemption

23 ‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents with Me.(A) 24 So in all the country that you possess, you are to provide for the redemption of the land [in the Year of Jubilee].

25 ‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell some of his property, then his nearest relative is to come and buy back (redeem) what his relative has sold.

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21 I will send you such a blessing(A) in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.(B) 22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.(C)

23 “‘The land(D) must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine(E) and you reside in my land as foreigners(F) and strangers. 24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption(G) of the land.

25 “‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative(H) is to come and redeem(I) what they have sold.

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