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In this same jubilee year, shall ye return every man unto his possession.

And when ye sell anything to thy neighbour, or buy aught at thy neighbour's hand, do not overreach one another.

By the number of years after the jubilee, shalt thou buy of thy neighbour, - by the number of the years of increase, shall he sell unto thee;

according to the multitude of the years, shalt thou increase the price thereof, and, according to the fewness of the years, shalt thou diminish the price thereof, - because the sum of the increase, it is that he selleth thee.

So then ye shall not overreach one another; but thou shalt stand in awe of thy God, - for, I - Yahweh, am your God.

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and my regulations, shall ye observe and do them, - so shall ye dwell upon the land with confidence;

and the land shall yield her fruit; and ye shall eat to the full, - and shall dwell with confidence thereupon.

And since ye may say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? Lo! we are not to sow, neither are we to gather our increase!

Therefore will I command my blessing upon you, in the sixth year, - and it shall make the increase of three years;

and ye shall sow, the eighth year, and eat of old store, - until the ninth year until the coming in of the increase thereof, shall ye eat old store.

The land moreover shall not be sold beyond recovery, for, mine, is the land, - for, sojourners and settlers, ye are with me.

And, in all the land of your possession, a right of redemption, shall ye give to the land.

When thy brother waxeth poor, and so selleth aught of his possession, then may his kinsman that is near unto him come in, and redeem that which was sold by his brother.

And, when, any man, hath no kinsman, - but his own hand getteth enough, so that he findeth what is needed to redeem it,

then shall he reckon the years since he sold it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it, - and shall return to his possession.

But, if his hand have not found enough to get it back unto him, then shall that which he sold remain in the hand of him that bought it, until the year of the jubilee, - and shall go out in the jubilee, and he shall return unto his possession.