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Leviticus 25:13-29 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. “ ‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

14. And when you sell something to your fellow citizen or you buy from your neighbor’s hand, you must not oppress one another.

15. You must buy from your fellow citizen according to the number of years after the Jubilee; he must sell to you according to the number of years of yield.

16. You must increase its price according to a greater number of years, but you must decrease its price according to a lesser number of years, because he is selling its yields to you.

17. And you must not oppress one another, but you shall revere your God, because I am Yahweh, your God.

18. “ ‘And you shall do my statutes, and you must keep my regulations, and you shall do them, so that you shall live securely on the land.

19. And the land shall give its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and you shall live securely on it.

20. And if you should say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?”

21. then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years.

22. And you will sow in the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield; until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat the old yield.

23. “ ‘But the land must not be sold in perpetuity, because the land is mine, because you are aliens and temporary residents with me.

24. And in all your property’s land you must provide redemption for the land.

25. “ ‘When your brother becomes poor and he sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come, and he shall redeem the thing sold by his brother.

26. But if a man does not have a redeemer, then he prospers and he finds enough for his redemption,

27. then he shall calculate the years of its selling, and he shall refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his property.

28. But if his hand does not find enough to refund to him, then what he has sold shall be in the buyer’s hand until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall go out of the buyer’s hand in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his property.

29. “ ‘And if a man sells a residential house in a walled city, then it shall be his redemption until completing a year after his selling; its redemption shall last a year.

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