Leviticus 25:8-28

8“You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to forty-nine.

9Then you are to sound a ram’s horn loudly in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; you will sound it throughout your land on the Day of Atonement.

10You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

11The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.

12It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may only eat its produce directly from the field.

13“In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.

14If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.

15You are to make the purchase from your neighbor based on the number of years since the last Jubilee. He is to sell to you based on the number of remaining harvest years.

16You are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests.

17You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

18“You are to keep my statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

19Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land.

20If you wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’

21I will appoint my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

22When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.

23“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only aliens and temporary residents on my land.

24You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.

25If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

26If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land,

27he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.

28But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.