Leviticus 25:13-28

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¹³ “In this year of Jubilee you shall return, every one of you, to your property.^{(A) 14} When you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not cheat one another.^{(B) 15} When you buy from your neighbor, you shall pay only for the number of years until the Jubilee; the seller shall charge you only for the remaining crop years.^{(C) 16} If the years are more, you shall increase the price, and if the years are fewer, you shall diminish the price, for it is a certain number of harvests that are being sold to you. ¹⁷ You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.^(D)

¹⁸ “You shall observe my statutes and faithfully keep my ordinances, so that you may live on the land securely.^{(E) 19} The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live on it securely. ²⁰ Should you ask, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’^{(F) 21} I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years. ²² When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the old crop; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.^{(G) 23} The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.^{(H) 24} Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

²⁵ “If anyone of your kin falls into difficulty and sells a piece of property, then the next of kin shall come and redeem what the relative has sold.^{(I) 26} If the person has no one to redeem it but then prospers and finds sufficient means to do so, ²⁷ the years since its sale shall be computed and the difference refunded to the person to whom it was sold, and the property shall be returned.^{(J) 28} But if there are not sufficient means to recover it, what was sold shall remain with the purchaser until the year of Jubilee; in the Jubilee it shall be released, and the property shall be returned.^(K)