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Leviticus 27:17-24 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

17. If you give your field to God during the year of Jubilee, then its value will be whatever the priest decides.

18. But if you give your field after the Jubilee, the priest must decide its exact price. He must count the number of years to the next year of Jubilee and use that number to decide the price.

19. If you want to buy the field back, you must add one-fifth to that price. Then you will get the field back.

20. If you don’t buy the field back and the land is sold to someone else, you cannot get the land back.

21. If you don’t buy the land back by the year of Jubilee, the field will remain holy to the Lord—it will belong to the priest forever. It will be treated like any other thing that was given completely to the Lord.

22. “If you dedicate a field to the Lord that you had bought, and it is not a part of your family’s property,

23. then the priest must count the years to the year of Jubilee and decide the price for the land. Then that land will belong to the Lord.

24. At the year of Jubilee, the land will go to the family that originally owned the land.

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