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Leviticus 25:13-28
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13 (A)“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. 14 And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, (B)you shall not wrong one another. 15 (C)You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops. 16 If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. 17 (D)You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

18 (E)“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then (F)you will dwell in the land securely. 19 (G)The land will yield its fruit, and (H)you will eat your fill (I)and dwell in it securely. 20 And if you say, (J)‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if (K)we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ 21 I will (L)command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. 22 (M)When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of (N)the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.

Redemption of Property

23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for (O)the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.

25 “If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, (P)then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. 26 If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 27 let (Q)him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property. 28 But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall (R)be released, and (S)he shall return to his property.

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Leviticus 25:13-28
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13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you[a] shall return[b] to his property. 14 And when you[c] sell something to your[d] fellow citizen or you buy from your[e] neighbor’s hand, you[f] must not oppress one another.[g] 15 You[h] must buy from your fellow citizen according to the number of years after the Jubilee; he must sell to you according to the number of years of yield. 16 You[i] must increase its price according to a greater number of years,[j] but[k] you must decrease its price according to a lesser number of years,[l] because he is selling its yields to you. 17 And you[m] must not oppress one another,[n] but[o] you[p] shall revere your God, because I am Yahweh, your[q] God.

18 “‘And you[r] shall do my statutes, and you must keep my regulations, and you shall do them, so that[s] you shall live securely[t] on the land. 19 And the land shall give its fruit, and you[u] shall eat your fill,[v] and you shall live securely[w] on it. 20 And if you[x] should say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, if[y] we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?” 21 then[z] I will command my blessing for you[aa] in the sixth year, so that[ab] it will make[ac] the yield for three years. 22 And you[ad] will sow in the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield;[ae] until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat the old yield.

23 “‘But[af] the land must not be sold in[ag] perpetuity, because the land is mine, because you[ah] are aliens and temporary residents with me. 24 And in all your[ai] property’s land you[aj] must provide redemption for the land.

25 “‘When your[ak] brother becomes poor and he sells part of his property, then[al] his nearest redeemer[am] shall come, and he shall redeem the thing sold by his brother. 26 But[an] if[ao] a man does not have[ap] a redeemer, then[aq] he prospers[ar] and he finds enough for his redemption, 27 then[as] he shall calculate the years of its selling, and he shall refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his property. 28 But[at] if his hand does not find enough to refund to him, then[au] what he has sold[av] shall be in the buyer’s hand until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall go out of the buyer’s hand[aw] in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his property.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:13 Plural
  2. Leviticus 25:13 Literally “you shall return a man” or “you shall return everyone”
  3. Leviticus 25:14 Plural
  4. Leviticus 25:14 Singular
  5. Leviticus 25:14 Singular
  6. Leviticus 25:14 Plural
  7. Leviticus 25:14 Literally “a man his brother”
  8. Leviticus 25:15 Singular throughout this verse
  9. Leviticus 25:16 Singular throughout this verse
  10. Leviticus 25:16 Literally “to the mouth of many of the years”
  11. Leviticus 25:16 Or “and”
  12. Leviticus 25:16 Literally “to the mouth of few of the years”
  13. Leviticus 25:17 Plural
  14. Leviticus 25:17 Literally “a man his citizen”
  15. Leviticus 25:17 Or “and”
  16. Leviticus 25:17 Singular
  17. Leviticus 25:17 Plural
  18. Leviticus 25:18 Plural throughout this verse
  19. Leviticus 25:18 Or “and”
  20. Leviticus 25:18 Literally “with confidence”
  21. Leviticus 25:19 Plural throughout this verse
  22. Leviticus 25:19 Literally “to contentment”
  23. Leviticus 25:19 Literally “with confidence”
  24. Leviticus 25:20 Plural
  25. Leviticus 25:20 Literally “look”
  26. Leviticus 25:21 Or “and”
  27. Leviticus 25:21 Plural
  28. Leviticus 25:21 Or “and”
  29. Leviticus 25:21 Or “produce”
  30. Leviticus 25:22 Plural throughout this verse
  31. Leviticus 25:22 The verse divides here
  32. Leviticus 25:23 Or “And”
  33. Leviticus 25:23 Or “for”
  34. Leviticus 25:23 Plural
  35. Leviticus 25:24 Plural
  36. Leviticus 25:24 Plural
  37. Leviticus 25:25 Singular
  38. Leviticus 25:25 Or “and”
  39. Leviticus 25:25 Literally “his redeemer the nearest to him”
  40. Leviticus 25:26 Or “And”
  41. Leviticus 25:26 Or “when”
  42. Leviticus 25:26 Literally “it is not for him”
  43. Leviticus 25:26 Or “and”
  44. Leviticus 25:26 Literally “his hand produces”
  45. Leviticus 25:27 Or “and”
  46. Leviticus 25:28 Or “And”
  47. Leviticus 25:28 Or “and”
  48. Leviticus 25:28 Literally “his thing sold”
  49. Leviticus 25:28 Meaning derived from context; an alternative translation could be “shall not be released” (cf. NKJV, NRSV, ESV, NJPS) or “shall not revert” (NASB, NET)
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