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But a man may have no one to buy his land, and he himself may become able to buy it again.

But if he is not able to buy it again for himself, then what he has sold will belong to the one who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Year of Jubilee it will be let go and he may return to it.

But if it is not bought back again for him within a whole year, then the house within the city walls belongs forever to the family of the one who bought it. It will not be returned to him in the Year of Jubilee.

But houses in towns that have no walls will be thought of as open fields. They may be let go, and will be returned in the Year of Jubilee.

But the open field of their cities must not be sold. It belongs to them forever.

Do not make him pay for the use of the money he owes you. But fear your God, so your brother may live with you.

Do not make it hard for him, but fear your God.

You may give them to your children after you, to receive as their own. You can have them as servants forever. But do not make it hard for your brothers, the people of Israel.

‘But if you do not obey Me and do not do all I say,

‘If after these things you do not turn to Me, but still go against Me,

‘If you still do not obey Me after all this, but go against Me,

But the land will be left behind them and become better with its Days of Rest while it lies empty without them. During this time they will turn away from their sin because they had not done what I told them to do and their soul hated My Laws.

But because of them I will remember the agreement with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the eyes of the nations, to be their God. I am the Lord.'"

But if the person is too poor to pay your price, he will be brought to the religious leader. The religious leader will decide the worth of the person by how much he who made the promise is able to pay.

But if the animal is unclean and not the kind which men give to the Lord, then he will bring the animal to the religious leader.

But if he sets apart his field after the Year of Jubilee, the religious leader will decide upon its worth by the years left until the next Year of Jubilee. It will be taken off your price.

But if he does not want to buy the field again, or has sold the field to another man, it cannot be bought again.

‘But no man may set apart a first-born of the animals. A first-born of the cattle or the flock belongs to the Lord.

‘But nothing that a man sets apart to the Lord of all he has, of man or animal or his own land, will be sold or bought. Everything that has been set apart is most holy to the Lord.

But the Levites by their fathers' family were not numbered with them.