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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 possession. 14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not (B)oppress one another. 15 (C)According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. 16 According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops. 17 Therefore (D)you shall not [a]oppress one another, (E)but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

Provisions for the Seventh Year

18 (F)‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; (G)and you will dwell in the land in safety. 19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and (H)you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.

20 ‘And if you say, (I)“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since (J)we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?” 21 Then I will (K)command My blessing on you in the (L)sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. 22 (M)And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat (N)old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.

Redemption of Property

23 ‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for (O)the land is Mine; for you are (P)strangers and sojourners with Me. 24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.

25 (Q)‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if (R)his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. 26 Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, 27 then (S)let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. 28 But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; (T)and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

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  1. Leviticus 25:17 mistreat
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Leviticus 25:13-28
Lexham English Bible

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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