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.
29. “‘Someone may sell a home in a walled city. But, for a full year after he sold it, he has the right to buy it back.
30. But the owner might not buy back the house before a full year is over. If he doesn’t, the house in the walled city will belong to the one who bought it. It will belong to his future sons. The house will not go back to the first owner at Jubilee.
31. But houses in small towns without walls are like open country. They can be bought back. And they must be returned to their first owner at Jubilee.
32. “‘The Levites may always buy back their houses. This is true in the cities which belong to them.
33. Someone might buy a house from a Levite. But that house in the Levites’ city will again belong to the Levites in the Jubilee. This is because houses in Levite cities belong to the people of Levi. The people of Israel gave these cities to the Levites.
34. Also the fields and pastures around the Levites’ cities cannot be sold. Those fields belong to the Levites forever.
35. “‘Someone from your country might become too poor to support himself. Help him to live among you as you would a stranger or foreigner.