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Leviticus 25:29-55

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29If someone who lives in a city that has a wall around it sells a house there, during the next year he will be permitted to buy it from the man who bought it.
30If he does not buy it during that year, it will belong permanently to the man who bought it and to his descendants. It must not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Celebration.
31But houses that are in villages that do not have walls around them are considered to be as though they are in a field. So if someone sells one of those houses, he is permitted to buy it back at any time. And if he does not buy it, it must be returned to him in the Year of Celebration.
32If any descendants of Levi sell their houses in the towns in which they live, they are permitted to buy them back at any time.
33And because the houses in their towns are on land that was given to them by other Israelis, that land will become theirs again in the Year of Celebration if they do not buy it back before then.
34But the pastureland near their towns must not be sold. It must belong to the original owners permanently/forever.
35If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and is unable to buy what he needs IDM, others of you must help him like you would help a foreigner who is living among you DOU temporarily.
36If you lend money to him, do not charge any kind of interest DOU. Instead, show by what you do that you revere me, your God, and help that man, in order that he will be able to continue to live among you.
37If you lend him money, do not charge interest; and if you sell food to him, charge him only what you paid for it; do not get a profit from it.
38Do not forget that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God and to give you the land of Canaan, and I did not charge you for doing that.
39If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not force him to work like a slave.
40Treat him like you treat workers that you hire or like someone who is living on your land temporarily. But he must work for you only until the Year of Celebration.
41During that year, you must free him, and he will go back to his family and to the property that his ancestors owned.
42It is as though you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I freed from being slaves in Egypt. So none of you should be sold to become slaves.
43And do not treat the Israelis whom you buy cruelly; instead, revere me, your God.
44If you want to have slaves, you are permitted to buy them from nearby countries.
45You are also permitted to buy some of the foreigners who are living among you, and members of their clans that were born in your country. Then you will own them.
46They will be your slaves for the remaining years of your life, and after you die, it is permitted for your children to own them. But you must not act in brutal ways toward your fellow Israelis.
47If a foreigner who is living among you DOU becomes rich, and if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to that foreigner or to a member of his clan/family,
48it is permitted for someone to pay for him to be freed. It is permitted for one of his relatives to pay for him to be released:
49An uncle or a cousin or another relative in his clan may pay for him to be released. Or, if he prospers and gets enough money, he is permitted to pay for his own release.
50The man who wants to pay for his own release must count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration. The price he pays to the man who bought him will depend on the pay that would be given to a hired worker for that number of years.
51If there are a lot of years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay for his release a larger amount of the money.
52If there are only a few years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.
53During the years that he is working for the man who bought him, the man who bought him must treat him like he would treat a hired worker, and all of you must make sure that his owner does not treat him cruelly.
54And even if a fellow Israeli who has sold himself to a rich man is not able to pay for himself to be freed by any of these ways, he and his children must be freed in the Year of Celebration,
55because it is as though you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from being slaves in Egypt.”

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