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Leviticus 25:19-34 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

19. and so that the soil may produce its fruits for you, from which you may eat, even to fullness, dreading violence by no one.

20. But if you will say: What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and do not gather our produce?

21. I will give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce of three years.

22. And in the eighth year you shall sow, but you shall eat from the old produce, until the ninth year, until what is new matures, you shall eat what is old.

23. Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.

24. Therefore, every region of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption.

25. If your brother, being in need, will have sold his little possession and his close relative is willing, he is able to redeem what he had sold.

26. But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,

27. the produce shall be calculated from that time when he sold it. And what is lacking, he shall repay to the buyer, and so he shall receive his possession.

28. But if his hand will not have discovered a way to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the Jubilee. For in that year all that has been sold shall return to the owner, and to the original possessor.

29. Whoever will have sold a house within the walls of a city shall have the freedom to redeem it, until one year has been completed.

30. If he has not redeemed it, and the year will have turned full circle, the buyer and his posterity shall possess it, in perpetuity, and it is not able to be redeemed, even in the Jubilee.

31. But if the house is in a village, which has no walls, it shall be sold by the law of the fields. If it has not been redeemed beforehand, then in the Jubilee it shall return to the owner.

32. The buildings of the Levites, which are in the cities, are always able to be redeemed.

33. If they have not been redeemed, then in the Jubilee they shall return to the owners, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possession among the sons of Israel.

34. But let not their suburbs be sold, for it is an everlasting possession.

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