Leviticus 25:8-28

8“‘You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.

9You must sound loud horn blasts – in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement – you must sound the horn in your entire land.

10So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

11That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.

12Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce from the field.

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.