16. The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests.
17. Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the lord your God.
18. “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations.
19. Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it.
20. But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’
21. Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years.
22. When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.