Leviticus 25:13-28
Christian Standard Bible
13 “In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property. 14 If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat(A) one another. 15 You are to make the purchase from your neighbor based on the number of years since the last Jubilee. He is to sell to you based on the number of remaining harvest years. 16 You are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests. 17 You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.
18 “You are to keep my statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.(B) 19 Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land. 20 If you wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’ 21 I will appoint my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. 22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.
23 “The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only aliens and temporary residents on my land.[a](C) 24 You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy. 25 If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold. 26 If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers[b] and obtains enough to redeem his land, 27 he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property. 28 But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.
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Leviticus 25:13-28
New American Standard Bible
13 ‘(A)On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property. 14 Furthermore, if you make a sale to your friend, or buy from your friend’s hand, (B)you shall not [a]wrong one another. 15 Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your [b]friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. 16 (C)In proportion to [c]a greater number of years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to [d]fewer years you shall decrease its price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you. 17 So (D)you shall not [e]wrong one another, but you shall [f]fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
18 ‘You shall therefore [g]follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that (E)you may live securely on the land. 19 Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it. 20 But if you say, “(F)What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow nor gather in our produce?” 21 then (G)I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the produce for three years. 22 When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat (H)old things from the produce, eating the old until the ninth year when its produce comes in.
The Law of Redemption
23 ‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, because (I)the land is Mine; for (J)you are only strangers and residents with Me. 24 So for every [h]piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.
25 ‘(K)If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor that he sells part of his property, then his closest [i]redeemer is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. 26 Or in case someone has no redeemer, but [j]recovers to find sufficient means for its redemption, 27 (L)then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property. 28 But if [k]he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall [l]revert, so that (M)he may return to his property.
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- Leviticus 25:14 Lit oppress
- Leviticus 25:15 Lit friend’s hands
- Leviticus 25:16 Lit the multitude of
- Leviticus 25:16 Lit the years being few
- Leviticus 25:17 Lit oppress
- Leviticus 25:17 Or revere
- Leviticus 25:18 Lit do My
- Leviticus 25:24 Lit land
- Leviticus 25:25 I.e., male relative to act in his behalf
- Leviticus 25:26 Lit his hand reaches
- Leviticus 25:28 Lit his hand has not found sufficient to
- Leviticus 25:28 Lit go out
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