Leviticus 25:8-28

8‘You are also to count off seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven Sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.

9Then you shall sound the ram’s horn everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month (almost October); on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout your land.

10And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom [for the slaves] throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee (year of remission) for you, and each of you shall return to his own [ancestral] property [that was sold to another because of poverty], and each of you shall return to his family [from whom he was separated by bondage].

11That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee for you; you shall not sow [seed], nor reap what reseeds itself, nor gather the grapes of the uncultivated vines.

12For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its crops out of the field.

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.