Leviticus 25:8-28

8“Count seven of these years seven times for a total of 49 years.

9On the tenth day of the seventh month, the special day for the payment for sin, sound rams’ horns throughout the country.

10Set apart the fiftieth year as holy, and proclaim liberty to everyone living in the land. This is your jubilee year. Every slave will be freed in order to return to his property and to his family.

11That fiftieth year will be your jubilee year. Don’t plant or harvest what grows by itself or pick grapes from the vines in the land.

12The jubilee ⌞year⌟ will be holy to you. You will eat what the field itself produces.

13“In this jubilee year every slave will be freed in order to return to his property.

14If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, don’t take advantage of him.

15When you buy property from your neighbor, take into account the number of years since the jubilee. Your neighbor must sell it to you taking into account the number of crops ⌞until the next jubilee⌟.

16If there are still many years ⌞until the jubilee⌟, you will pay more for it. If there are only a few years ⌞until the jubilee⌟, you will pay less for it because he is selling you only the number of crops.

17Never take advantage of each other. Fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.

18“Obey my laws, and carefully follow my rules. Then you will live securely in the land.

19The land will give you its products, and you will eat all you want and live there securely.

20You may ask, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or bring in our crops?’

21I will give you my blessing in the sixth year so that the land will produce enough for three years.

22You will plant ⌞again⌟ in the eighth year but live on what the land already produced. You will eat it, even in the ninth year, until the land produces more.

23“Land must never be sold permanently, because the land is mine. To me you are strangers without permanent homes.

24People must always have the right to buy their property back.

25If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his property, then the one who can assume responsibility, his nearest relative, must buy back what he sold.

26If a man doesn’t have anyone to buy it back for him, but if he prospers and earns enough to buy it back himself,

27he must count the years from its sale. Then he will pay what is left to the man to whom he sold it, and it will be his property again.

28However, if he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.