11. This is a year of complete celebration, so don't plant any seed or harvest what your fields or vineyards produce.
12. In this time of sacred celebration you may eat only what grows on its own.
13. During this year, all property must go back to its original owner.
14-15. So when you buy or sell farmland, the price is to be determined by the number of crops it can produce before the next Year of Celebration. Don't try to cheat.
16. If it is a long time before the next Year of Celebration, the price will be higher, because what is really being sold are the crops that the land can produce.
17. I am the Lord your God, so obey me and don't cheat anyone.
18-19. If you obey my laws and teachings, you will live safely in the land and enjoy its abundant crops.
20. Don't ever worry about what you will eat during the seventh year when you are forbidden to plant or harvest.
21. I will see to it that you harvest enough in the sixth year to last for three years.
22. In the eighth year you will live on what you harvested in the sixth year, but in the ninth year you will eat what you plant and harvest in the eighth year.
23. No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me—it isn't your land, and you only live there for a little while.
24. When property is being sold, the original owner must be given the first chance to buy it.
25. If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back,
26. if that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it,
27. you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again.
28. But if you don't have the money to pay the present owner a fair price, you will have to wait until the Year of Celebration, when the property will once again become yours.
29. If you sell a house in a walled city, you have only one year in which to buy it back.