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Leviticus 25:21-39 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

21. ‘Therefore I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth the crop for three years.

22. ‘And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old crop until the ninth year. Eat of the old until its crop comes in.

23. ‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me.

24. ‘And provide for a redemption for the land, in all the land of your possession.

25. ‘When your brother becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and his redeemer, a close relative comes to redeem it, then he shall redeem what his brother sold.

26. ‘And when the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it,

27. then let him count the years since its sale, and return the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he shall return to his possession.

28. ‘And if his hand has not found enough to give back to him, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. And it shall be released in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his possession.

29. ‘And when a man sells a house in a walled city, then his right of redemption shall be at the end of the year after it is sold. His right of redemption lasts a year.

30. ‘But if it is not redeemed within a complete year, then the house in the walled city shall be established beyond reclaim to the buyer of it, throughout his generations. It is not released in the Jubilee.

31. ‘The houses of villages, however, which have no wall around them are reckoned as the field of the country. A right of redemption belongs to it, and they are released in the Jubilee.

32. ‘As for the cities of the Lĕwites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Lĕwites have a right of redemption forever.

33. ‘And that which is redeemed from the Lĕwites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Lĕwites are their possession in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl.

34. ‘But the field of the open land of their cities is not sold, for it is their everlasting possession.

35. ‘And when your brother becomes poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you shall sustain him, and he shall live with you, like a stranger or a sojourner.

36. ‘Take no interest from him, or profit, but you shall fear your Elohim, and your brother shall live with you.

37. ‘Do not lend him your silver on interest, and do not lend him your food for profit.

38. ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to give you the land of Kena‛an, to be your Elohim.

39. ‘And when your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, do not make him serve as a slave.

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