Leviticus 25:13-34

13‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property.

14If you sell anything to your friend or buy from your friend, you shall not wrong one another.

15According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your friend. And he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops [which may be harvested before you must restore the property to him].

16If the years [until the next Jubilee] are many, you shall increase the price, but if the years remaining are few, you shall reduce the price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you.

17You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; for I am the Lord your God.

18‘Therefore you shall carry out My statutes and keep My ordinances and do them, so that you may live securely on the land.

19Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

20And if you say, “What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow [seed] or gather in our crops?”

21then [this is My answer:] I will order My [special] blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce [sufficient] crops for three years.

22When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crops, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.

23‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents with Me.

24So in all the country that you possess, you are to provide for the redemption of the land [in the Year of Jubilee].

25‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell some of his property, then his nearest relative is to come and buy back (redeem) what his relative has sold.

26Or in case a man has no relative [to redeem his property], but he has become more prosperous and has enough to buy it back,

27then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his [ancestral] property.

28But if he is unable to redeem it, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of the purchaser until the Year of Jubilee; but at the Jubilee it shall revert, and he may return to his property.

29‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then his right of redemption remains valid for a full year after its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

30But if it is not redeemed for him within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently and irrevocably to the purchaser throughout his generations. It does not revert back in the Year of Jubilee.

31The houses of the villages that have no surrounding walls, however, shall be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and revert in the Year of Jubilee.

32As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses in the cities which they possess.

33Therefore, what is [purchased] from the Levites may be redeemed [by a Levite], and the house that was sold in the city they possess reverts in the Year of Jubilee, for the houses in the Levite cities are their [ancestral] property among the Israelites.

34But the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for that is their permanent possession.