New American Standard Bible 2020

Leviticus 25:13-28

13‘1On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property. 14Furthermore, if you make a sale to your friend, or buy from your friend’s hand, 2you shall not 3wrong one another. 15Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your 4friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. 16 5In proportion to 6a greater number of years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to 7fewer years you shall decrease its price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you. 17So 8you shall not 9wrong one another, but you shall 10fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

18‘You shall therefore 11follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that 12you 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. 20But if you say, “13What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow nor gather in our produce?” 21then 14I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the produce for three years. 22When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat 15old things from the produce, eating the old until the ninth year when its produce comes in.

23‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, because 16the land is Mine; for 17you are only strangers and residents with Me. 24So for every 18piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

25‘19If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor that he sells part of his property, then his closest 20redeemer is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. 26Or in case someone has no redeemer, but 21recovers to find sufficient means for its redemption, 27 22then 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 property. 28But if 23he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall 24revert, so that 25he may return to his property.

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Notes

1. Leviticus 25:13 Lev 25:10; 27:24 ↩
2. Leviticus 25:14 Lev 25:17 ↩
3. Leviticus 25:14 Lit oppress ↩
4. Leviticus 25:15 Lit friend’s hands ↩
5. Leviticus 25:16 Lev 25:27, 51, 52 ↩
6. Leviticus 25:16 Lit the multitude of ↩
7. Leviticus 25:16 Lit the years being few ↩
8. Leviticus 25:17 Lev 25:14; Prov 14:31; 22:22; Jer 7:5, 6; 1 Thess 4:6 ↩
9. Leviticus 25:17 Lit oppress ↩
10. Leviticus 25:17 Or revere ↩
11. Leviticus 25:18 Lit do My ↩
12. Leviticus 25:18 Lev 26:5; Deut 12:10; Jer 23:6 ↩
13. Leviticus 25:20 Lev 25:4 ↩
14. Leviticus 25:21 Deut 28:8 ↩
15. Leviticus 25:22 Lev 26:10 ↩
16. Leviticus 25:23 Ex 19:5 ↩
17. Leviticus 25:23 Gen 23:4; 1 Chr 29:15; Ps 39:12; Heb 11:13; 1 Pet 2:11 ↩
18. Leviticus 25:24 Lit land ↩
19. Leviticus 25:25 Ruth 2:20; 4:4, 6 ↩
20. Leviticus 25:25 I.e., male relative to act in his behalf ↩
21. Leviticus 25:26 Lit his hand reaches ↩
22. Leviticus 25:27 Lev 25:16 ↩
23. Leviticus 25:28 Lit his hand has not found sufficient to ↩
24. Leviticus 25:28 Lit go out ↩
25. Leviticus 25:28 Lev 25:10, 13 ↩

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