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.
Lev 25:42 'For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.
Lev 25:43 'You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.
Lev 25:44 'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have--you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.
Lev 25:45 'Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.
Lev 25:46 'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.
Lev 25:47 ¶ 'Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger's family,
Lev 25:48 then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,
Lev 25:49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
Lev 25:50 'He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.