22. You can plant again in the eighth year and eat food from the previous year’s produce until the ninth year. Until its produce comes, you will eat the food from the previous year.
23. The land must not be permanently sold because the land is mine. You are just immigrants and foreign guests of mine.
24. Throughout the whole land that you possess, you must allow for the land to be bought back.
25. When one of your fellow Israelites faces financial difficulty and must sell part of their family property, the closest relative will come and buy back what their fellow Israelite has sold.
26. If the person doesn’t have someone to buy it back, but then manages to afford buying it back,
27. they must calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the person to whom they sold it. Then it will go back to the family property.
28. If they cannot afford to make a refund to the buyer, whatever was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Jubilee year. It will be released in the Jubilee year, at which point it will return to the family property.
29. When a person sells a home in a walled city, it may be bought back until a year after its sale. The period for buying it back will be one year.