²⁴ Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption^(A) of the land.

²⁵ “‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative^(B) is to come and redeem^(C) what they have sold. ²⁶ If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper^(D) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, ²⁷ they are to determine the value for the years^(E) 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.^{(F) 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^(G) in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.^(H)

²⁶ You rely on your sword, you do detestable things,^(A) and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife.^(B) Should you then possess the land?’

²⁷ “Say this to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those who are left in the ruins will fall by the sword, those out in the country I will give to the wild animals to be devoured, and those in strongholds and caves will die of a plague.^(C)

²² Because you disheartened the righteous with your lies,^(A) when I had brought them no grief, and because you encouraged the wicked not to turn from their evil ways and so save their lives,^(B)