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Leviticus 25:18-50

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18And ye shall do my statutes, and my ordinances shall ye keep and do them; and then shall ye dwell in the land in safety.
19And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in safety therein.
20And if ye should say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we are not permitted to sow, and we cannot gather in our harvest:
21Then will I command my blessing unto you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth a harvest for three years.
22And when ye sow in the eighth year, then shall ye eat yet of the old harvest; until the ninth year, until its harvest come in, shall ye eat of the old store.
23And the land shall not be sold for a permanence to the purchaser; for the land is mine; for strangers and sojourners are ye with me.
24And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25If thy brother become poor, and sell away some of his possession: then may his nearest of kin come and redeem what his brother hath sold.
26And if the man have none to redeem it, and he acquire the means, sufficient to be able to redeem it himself:
27Then let him reckon the years since his sale, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so shall he return unto his possession.
28But if his means do not suffice to enable him to restore it to him: then shall that which he hath sold remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of the jubilee; and it shall be freed in the jubilee, and he shall return unto his possession.
29And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city: then shall the time of redemption last till the end of the year of his sale; a full year shall his time of redemption last.
30And if it be not redeemed within the expiration of a full year: then shall the house which is in the walled city remain as a permanence to him that bought it throughout his generations; it shall not become freed in the jubilee.
31But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they shall have the right of redemption, and they shall become freed in the jubilee.
32And respecting the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, a perpetual right of redemption shall belong to the Levites.
33And if a man of the Levites redeem something: then shall the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, become freed in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
34And a field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for a perpetual possession is it unto them.
35And if thy brother become poor, and fall in decay with thee: then shalt thou assist him, yea a stranger, or a sojourner, that he may live with thee.
36Thou shalt not take of him any usury or increase; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God: that thy brother may live with thee.
37Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
38I am the Lord your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give unto you the land of Canaan, to be unto you a God.
39And if thy brother become poor near thee, and be sold unto thee: thou shalt not compel him to work as a bond-servant.
40But as a hired laborer, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of the jubilee shall he serve with thee:
41And then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him; and he shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
42For my servants are they, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bond-men are sold.
43Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor; but thou shalt have fear of thy God.
44But thy bond-man, and thy bond-woman that shall remain thine, shall be of the nations that are round about you; of them may ye buy bond-man and bond-woman.
45And also of the children of the strangers that sojourn with you, of them may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land; and they shall remain to you as a possession.
46And ye may transfer them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; you may hold them to service for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel, one over the other, ye shall not rule with rigor.
47And if a stranger or sojourner wax rich near thee, and thy brother become poor near him, and he sell himself unto the sojourning stranger near thee, or to a descendant of a stranger's family:
48After he hath sold himself shall he have the right of redemption; one of his brethren may redeem him.
49Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is near of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he obtain the means, he may redeem himself.
50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of the jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, as the time of a hired laborer shall he have been with him.

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