Lev 25:21 then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.
Lev 25:22 'When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.
Lev 25:23 ¶ 'The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.
Lev 25:24 'Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.
Lev 25:25 ¶ 'If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.
Lev 25:26 'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,
Lev 25:27 then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.
Lev 25:28 'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.
Lev 25:29 ¶ 'Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.
Lev 25:30 'But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.
Lev 25:31 'The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall shall be considered as open fields; they have redemption rights and revert in the jubilee.
Lev 25:32 'As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.
Lev 25:33 'What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.
Lev 25:34 'But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.
Lev 25:35 ¶ 'Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.
Lev 25:36 'Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.
Lev 25:37 'You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.
Lev 25:38 'I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
Lev 25:39 ¶ 'If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service.
Lev 25:40 'He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.