11. The fiftieth year will be a special time for you to celebrate. Don’t plant seeds. Don’t harvest the crops that grow by themselves. Don’t gather grapes from the vines that are not trimmed.
12. That year is Jubilee. It will be a holy time for you. You may eat the crops that come from the field.
13. In the year of Jubilee each person will go back to his own property.
14. “‘Don’t cheat your neighbor when you sell your land to him. And don’t let him cheat you when you buy land from him.
15. You might want to buy your neighbor’s land. If you do, count the number of years since the last Jubilee. Use that number to decide the right price. If he sells the land to you, count the number of years left for harvesting crops. Use that number to decide the right price.
16. If there are many years, the price will be high. If there are only a few years, lower the price. This is because your neighbor is really selling only a few crops to you. At the next Jubilee the land will again belong to his family.
17. You must not cheat each other. You respect your God. I am the Lord your God.
18. “‘Remember my laws and rules, and obey them. Then you will live safely in the land.
19. The land will give good crops to you. You will eat as much as you want. And you will live safely in the land.
20. “‘But you might ask, “If we don’t plant seeds or gather crops, what will we eat the seventh year?”
21. Don’t worry. I will send you a great blessing during the sixth year. That year the land will produce enough crops for 3 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 harvest of the ninth year.
23. “‘The land really belongs to me. So you can’t sell it forever. You are only foreigners and travelers living for a time on my land.
24. People might sell their land. But the family will always get its land back.