Leviticus 25:10   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.

Leviticus 25:11   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.

Leviticus 25:14   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.

Leviticus 25:15   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.

Leviticus 25:16   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

Leviticus 25:18   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.

Leviticus 25:19   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

Leviticus 25:20   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?"

Leviticus 25:21   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

Leviticus 25:23   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.

Leviticus 25:25   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.

Leviticus 25:26   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves,

Leviticus 25:27   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

they are to determine the value for the years since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.

Leviticus 25:28   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.

Leviticus 25:29   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it.

Leviticus 25:30   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer's descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

Leviticus 25:33   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

So the property of the Levites is redeemable-that is, a house sold in any town they hold-and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

Leviticus 25:34   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

Leviticus 25:35   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.

Leviticus 25:36   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

Leviticus 25:37   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.

Leviticus 25:39   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

Leviticus 25:42   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

Leviticus 25:44   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.