Gifts by the Regent Prince

¹⁶ “This is what the Lord God says: ‘If the Regent Prince gives a gift to someone,^[a] it is to remain with the man’s descendants as their own inheritance. ¹⁷ But if he gives a gift to any of his servants, it is to belong to the servant^[b] until the Year of Release, at which time it is to be returned to the Regent Prince. His inheritance is to belong only to his sons. ¹⁸ The Regent Prince is not to appropriate the nation’s inheritance nor take advantage of them by taking their property from them. Instead, he is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own possessions so that my people will not be separated from their possessions.’”