Leviticus 25:21-34
English Standard Version
21 I will (A)command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. 22 (B)When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of (C)the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.
Redemption of Property
23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for (D)the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.
25 “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, (E)then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. 26 If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 27 let (F)him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property. 28 But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall (G)be released, and (H)he shall return to his property.
29 “If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. 30 If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; (I)it shall not be released in the jubilee. 31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and (J)they shall be released in the jubilee. 32 As for (K)the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess. 33 And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel. 34 But the fields (L)of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.
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Leviticus 25:21-34
New International Version
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. 26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper(J) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they are to determine the value for the years(K) since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.(L) 28 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(M) in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.(N)
29 “‘Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it. 30 If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee. 31 But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.
32 “‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns,(O) which they possess. 33 So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites. 34 But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.(P)
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