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Leviticus 25:29-55

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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.
37Don't lend them silver with interest or sell them food at an inflated price.
38Remember, I am the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
39If any of your people become poor and have to sell themselves to work for you, don't force them to work as a slave.
40Have them live with you like a paid worker who is staying with you for a while. They are to work for you until the Jubilee Year.
41Then they and their children must be freed, and they can go back to their family and to their family's property.
42Israelites are not to be sold as slaves because they belong to me as my slaves—I led them out of Egypt.
43Don't treat them with brutality. Have respect for your God.
44Buy your male and female slaves from the surrounding nations.
45You can also buy them from foreigners who have come to live among you, or from their descendants born in your land. You can treat them as your property.
46You can pass them on to your children to inherit as property after you die. You can make them slaves for life, but you must not brutally treat any of your own people, the Israelites, as a slave.
47If a foreigner among you becomes successful, and one of your people living nearby becomes poor and sells themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's family,
48they still have the right of being bought back after the sale. A member of their family can buy them back—
49an uncle or cousin or any close relative from their family can buy them back. If they become successful, they can buy themselves back.
50The person concerned and their buyer will work out the time from the year of the sale up to the Jubilee Year. The price will depend on the number of years, calculated using the daily rate for a paid worker.
51If there are many years left, they must pay a larger percentage of the purchase price.
52If there are only a few years remaining before the Jubilee Year, then they only have to pay a percentage depending on the number of years still left.
53They are to live with their foreign owner just like a paid worker, hired from year to year, but see to it that the owner doesn't treat him brutally.
54If they are not bought back in any of the ways described, they and their children shall be freed in the Jubilee Year.
55For the Israelites belong to me as my slaves. They are my slaves—I led them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

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