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.
33. If someone buys a house from a Levite, that house in the Levites’ city will again belong to the Levites at the time of Jubilee. This is because houses in Levite cities belong to those from the tribe of Levi. The Israelites gave these cities to the Levites.
34. Also, the fields and pastures around the Levite cities cannot be sold. They belong to the Levites forever.
35. “If anyone from your own country becomes too poor to support themselves, you must let them live with you like a visitor.
36. Don’t charge them any interest on money you might loan to them. Respect your God and let those from your own country live with you.
37. Don’t charge them interest on any money you lend them. And don’t try to make a profit from the food you sell them.
38. I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of the land of Egypt to give the land of Canaan to you and to become your God.
39. “If anyone from your own country becomes so poor that they must sell themselves to you, don’t make them work like slaves.
40. They will be like hired workers and visitors with you until the year of Jubilee.
41. Then they can leave you, take their children, and go back to their family. They can go back to the property of their ancestors,