11. You shall not sow your fields or harvest the corn that grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards.
12. The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only what the fields produce of themselves.
13. In this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to its original owner.
14. So when you sell land to your fellow-Israelite or buy land from him, do not deal unfairly.
15. The price is to be fixed according to the number of years the land can produce crops before the next Year of Restoration.
16. If there are many years, the price shall be higher, but if there are only a few years, the price shall be lower, because what is being sold is the number of crops the land can produce.
17. Do not cheat a fellow-Israelite, but obey the Lord your God.
18. Obey all the Lord's laws and commands, so that you may live in safety in the land.
19. The land will produce its crops, and you will have all you want to eat and will live in safety.
20. But someone may ask what there will be to eat during the seventh year, when no fields are sown and no crops gathered.
21. The Lord will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will produce enough food for two years.
22. When you sow your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating what you harvested during the sixth year, and you will have enough to eat until the crops you plant that year are harvested.
23. Your land must not be sold on a permanent basis, because you do not own it; it belongs to God, and you are like foreigners who are allowed to make use of it.
24. When land is sold, the right of the original owner to buy it back must be recognized.
25. If an Israelite becomes poor and is forced to sell his land, his closest relative is to buy it back.
26. Anyone who has no relative to buy it back may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back.
27. In that case he must pay to the man who bought it a sum that will make up for the years remaining until the next Year of Restoration, when he would in any event recover his land.
28. But if he does not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the man who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.
29. If someone sells a house in a walled city, he has the right to buy it back during the first full year from the date of sale.
30. But if he does not buy it back within the year, he loses the right of repurchase, and the house becomes the permanent property of the purchaser and his descendants; it will not be returned in the Year of Restoration.