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
Leviticus 25:13-28
Revised Standard Version
13 “In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. 14 And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years for crops he shall sell to you. 16 If the years are many you shall increase the price, and if the years are few you shall diminish the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. 17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
18 “Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land securely. 19 The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell in it securely. 20 And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ 21 I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years. 22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating old produce; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old. 23 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.
25 “If your brother becomes poor, and sells part of his property, then his next of kin 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 him reckon the years since he sold it and pay back the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property. 28 But if he has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
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