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Leviticus 25:13-28
International Children’s Bible
Leviticus 25:13-28
International Children’s Bible
13 In the year of Jubilee each person will go back to his own property.
14 “‘Don’t cheat your neighbor when you sell your land to him. And don’t let him cheat you when you buy land from him. 15 You might want to buy your neighbor’s land. If you do, count the number of years since the last Jubilee. Use that number to decide the right price. If he sells the land to you, count the number of years left for harvesting crops. Use that number to decide the right price. 16 If there are many years, the price will be high. If there are only a few years, lower the price. This is because your neighbor is really selling only a few crops to you. At the next Jubilee the land will again belong to his family. 17 You must not cheat each other. You respect your God. I am the Lord your God.
18 “‘Remember my laws and rules, and obey them. Then you will live safely in the land. 19 The land will give good crops to you. You will eat as much as you want. And you will live safely in the land.
20 “‘But you might ask, “If we don’t plant seeds or gather crops, what will we eat the seventh year?” 21 Don’t worry. I will send you a great blessing during the sixth year. That year the land will produce enough crops for 3 years. 22 When you plant in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the old crop. You will eat the old crop until the harvest of the ninth year.
Property Laws
23 “‘The land really belongs to me. So you can’t sell it forever. You are only foreigners and travelers living for a time on my land. 24 People might sell their land. But the family will always get its land back. 25 A person in your country might become very poor. He might be so poor that he must sell his land. So his close relatives must come and buy it back for him. 26 A person might not have a close relative to buy back his land for him. But he might get enough money to buy it back himself. 27 He must count the years since the land was sold. He must use that number to decide how much to pay for the land. Then he may buy it back. And the land will be his again. 28 But he might not find enough money to buy it back for himself. Then the one who bought it will keep it until the year of Jubilee. But during that celebration, the land will go back to the first owner’s family.
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Leviticus 25:13-28
New International Version
Leviticus 25:13-28
New International Version
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)
18 “‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws,(H) and you will live safely in the land.(I) 19 Then the land will yield its fruit,(J) and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.(K) 20 You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year(L) if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” 21 I will send you such a blessing(M) in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.(N) 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.(O)
23 “‘The land(P) must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine(Q) and you reside in my land as foreigners(R) and strangers. 24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption(S) of the land.
25 “‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative(T) is to come and redeem(U) what they have sold. 26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper(V) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they are to determine the value for the years(W) 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.(X) 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(Y) in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.(Z)
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