Leviticus 25:13-28
1599 Geneva Bible
13 In the year of this Jubilee, ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And when thou sellest ought to thy neighbor, or buyest at thy neighbor’s hand, ye shall [a]not oppress one another.
15 But according to the number of [b]years after the Jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbor: also according to the number of the years of the revenues, he shall sell unto thee.
16 According to the multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt abate the price of it: for the number of [c]fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Oppress not ye therefore any man his neighbor, but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.
18 ¶ Wherefore ye shall obey mine ordinances, and keep my laws, and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land [d]in safety.
19 And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year, for we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase?
21 I will [e]send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the old fruit until the ninth year: until the fruit thereof come ye shall eat the old.
23 ¶ Also the land shall not be sold to be [f]cut off from the family: for the land is mine, and ye be but strangers and sojourners with me.
24 Therefore in all the land of your possession ye shall [g]grant a redemption of the land.
25 ¶ If thy brother be impoverished, and sell his possession, then his redeemer shall come, even his near kinsman, and buy out that, which his [h]brother sold.
26 And if he have no redeemer, but [i]hath gotten and found to buy it out,
27 Then shall he [j]count the years of his sale, and restore the overplus to the man, to whom he sold it: so shall he return to his possession.
28 But if he cannot get sufficient to restore to him, then that which is sold, shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the year of the Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall come [k]out, and he shall return unto his possession.
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- Leviticus 25:14 By deceit, or otherwise.
- Leviticus 25:15 If the Jubilee to come be near, thou shalt sell better cheap: if it be far off, dearer.
- Leviticus 25:16 And not the full possession of the land.
- Leviticus 25:18 Or, boldly without fear.
- Leviticus 25:21 Hebrew, I will command.
- Leviticus 25:23 It could not be sold forever, but must return to the family in the Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:24 Ye shall sell it on condition that it may be redeemed.
- Leviticus 25:25 Or, kinsman.
- Leviticus 25:26 Hebrew, his hand hath gotten.
- Leviticus 25:27 Abating the money of the years past, and paying for the rest of the years to come.
- Leviticus 25:28 From his hand that bought it.
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