Leviticus 25:13-34

13“‘In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

15You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.

16The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.

17No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.

18You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land.

19“‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, and you may live securely in the land.

20If you say, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

21I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years,

22and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year’s produce – old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year’s produce, you may eat old produce.

23The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

24In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.

25“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.

26If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,

27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.

28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

29“‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.

30If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.

31The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.

32As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.

33Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem – the sale of a house which is his property in a city – must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

34Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.