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)

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.