13 (A)‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. 14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not (B)oppress one another. 15 (C)According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. 16 According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops. 17 Therefore (D)you shall not [a]oppress one another, (E)but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:17 mistreat

13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee(A) everyone is to return to their own property.

14 “‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.(B) 15 You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years(C) since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. 16 When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price,(D) because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. 17 Do not take advantage of each other,(E) but fear your God.(F) I am the Lord your God.(G)

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