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, that is, forty-nine years. 9You shall then sound a ram’s horn 1abroad on 2the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. 10So you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and 3proclaim 4a release throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, 5and 6each of you shall return to his own property, 7and each of you shall return to his family. 11You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor harvest its aftergrowth, nor gather grapes from its untrimmed vines. 12For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce from the field.

13‘8On 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, 9you shall not 10wrong one another. 15Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your 11friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. 1612In proportion to 13a greater number of years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to 14fewer years you shall decrease its price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you. 17So 15you shall not 16wrong one another, but you shall 17fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

18‘You shall therefore 18follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that 19you 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, “20What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow nor gather in our produce?” 21then 21I 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 22old 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 23the land is Mine; for 24you are only strangers and residents with Me. 24So for every 25piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

25‘26If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor that he sells part of his property, then his closest 27redeemer is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. 26Or in case someone has no redeemer, but 28recovers to find sufficient means for its redemption, 2729then 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 30he 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 31revert, so that 32he may return to his property.