18. “Remember my laws and rules. Obey them and you will live safely in your country.
19. And the land will produce good crops for you. Then you will have plenty of food, and you will live safely on the land.
20. “But maybe you will say, ‘If we don’t plant seeds or gather our crops, we will not have anything to eat during the seventh year.’
21. I will order my blessing to come to you during the sixth year. The land will continue growing crops for three years.
22. When you plant in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the old crop. You will eat the old crop until the ninth year, when the crop you planted in the eighth year comes in.
23. “The land really belongs to me, so you cannot sell it permanently. You are only foreigners and travelers living on my land with me.
24. People might sell their land, but the family will always get their land back.
25. If someone in your country becomes very poor and must sell their property, a close relative must come and buy it back.
26. If there is not a close relative to buy back the land, the person might get enough money to buy it back.
27. Then the years must be counted since the land was sold. That number must be used to decide how much to pay for the land. The person must then buy back the land, and it will be their property again.
28. But if this first owner cannot find enough money to buy the land back, it will stay in the hands of the one who bought it until the year of Jubilee. Then during that special celebration, the land will go back to the first owner’s family. So the property will again belong to the right family.
29. “Anyone who sells a home in a walled city still has the right to get it back until a full year after it was sold. Their right to get the house back will continue one year.
30. But if the owner does not buy back the house before a full year is finished, the house that is in the walled city will belong to the one who bought it and to their descendants. The house will not go back to the first owner at the time of Jubilee.
31. Towns without walls around them will be treated like open fields. So houses built in these small towns will go back to the first owners at the time of Jubilee.
32. “But about the cities of the Levites: The Levites can buy back at any time their houses in the cities that belong to them.