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Leviticus 25:29-40 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.

35. If your brother has become impoverished, or infirm of hand, and you take him in, like a newcomer or a sojourner, and he lives with you,

36. do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you.

37. You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.

38. I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I might give to you the land of Canaan, and so that I may be your God.

39. If your brother, having been compelled by poverty, will have sold himself to you, you shall not oppress him with the servitude of indentured servants.

40. But he shall be like a hired hand or a settler; he shall work with you, until the year of the Jubilee.

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