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Leviticus 25:21-28 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

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.

25. A person in your country might become very poor. He might be so poor that he must sell his land. So his close relatives must come and buy it back for him.

26. A person might not have a close relative to buy back his land for him. But he might get enough money to buy it back himself.

27. He must count the years since the land was sold. He must use that number to decide how much to pay for the land. Then he may buy it back. And the land will be his again.

28. But he might not find enough money to buy it back for himself. Then the one who bought it will keep it until the year of Jubilee. But during that celebration, the land will go back to the first owner’s family.

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