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Leviticus 25:12-36

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12It is a Jubilee and it is to be holy to you. You can eat whatever the land produces.
13In this Jubilee Year, every one of you shall return to your own property.
14If you sell land to your neighbor, or buy land from him, don't exploit one another.
15When you buy from your neighbor work out how many years have passed since the last Jubilee, for he is to sell to you depending on how many years of harvest remain.
16The more years that are left, the more you shall pay; the fewer years that are left, the less you shall pay, because he is actually selling you a specific number of harvests.
17Don't exploit one another, but have respect for your God, because I am the Lord your God.
18Keep my rules and observe my regulations, so you can live in safety in the land.
19Then the land will produce good harvest, so you will have plenty to eat and live in safety there.
20But if you ask, ‘What are we going to in the seventh year if we do not sow or harvest our crops?’
21I will bless you in the sixth year, so that the land will produce a crop that will be enough for three years.
22As you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from that harvest, which will last until your harvest in the ninth year.
23Land must not be permanently sold, because it really belongs to me. To me you are only foreigners and travelers passing through.
24So whatever land you buy to own, you must make arrangements so it can be returned to its original owner.
25If one of your people becomes poor and sells you some of their land, their close family can come and buy back what they have sold.
26However, if they don't have anyone who can buy it back, but in the meantime their financial situation improves and they have enough to buy back the land,
27they will work how many years it has been since the sale, and pay back the balance to the person who bought it, and go back to their property
28If they can't raise enough to pay the person back for the land, the buyer will remain its owner until the Jubilee Year. But in the Jubilee the land will be returned so that the original owner can so that they can go back to their property.
29If someone sells a house located in a walled town, they have the right to buy it back for a full year after selling it. It can be bought back any time during that year.
30If it isn't bought back be the end of a full year, then ownership of the house in the walled town is permanently transferred to the one who bought it and their descendants. It won't be returned in the Jubilee.
31But houses in villages that don't have walls around them are to be treated as located in the fields. They can be bought back, and will be returned in the Jubilee.
32However, the Levites always have the right to buy back their houses in the towns that belong to them.
33Whatever the Levites own can be bought back, even houses sold in their towns, and must be returned in the Jubilee. That's because the houses in the towns of the Levites are what they were given to own as their share among the Israelites.
34However, the fields surrounding their towns must not be sold because they belong to the Levites permanently.
35If any of your people become poor and can't survive, you must help them in the same way you would help a foreigner or a stranger, so that they can go on living in your neighborhood.
36Don't make them pay you any interest or demand more than they borrowed, but respect your God so that they can remain living in your area.

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