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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.

Then he should add up the years since he sold it, and pay what is left of the price to the man to whom he sold it. So he will return to his own land.

Then he will leave you, he and his children, that he may return to the land of his fathers.

Then he may be made free after he has been sold. One of his brothers may pay the price to free him.

His father's brother, the son of his father's brother, or one of his own family may pay the price to free him. Or if he becomes rich he may pay the price himself.

If there is only a few years until the Year of Jubilee, he will decide upon the amount of money with his owner. He should pay the price to be set free, decided upon by the number of years.

He will be like a man paid to work for him year by year. Make sure his owner does not make it hard for him.

Even if the price is not paid for him in this way, he will go free in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children.

‘When a man sets apart his house as holy to the Lord, the religious leader will decide if it is good or bad. Whatever price the religious leader puts on it, so it will be.

If the man who sets it apart wants to buy his house again, he will add one-fifth part to your price. Then it will be his.

If he sets apart his field during the Year of Jubilee, it will be worth your full price.

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.

If the man who sets it apart wants to buy his field again, he will add one-fifth part to your price. Then it will be his.

If a man sets apart to the Lord a field he has bought, which is not a part of the land he was given by his father,

‘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.

A man from each family should be with you to help you. Each one should be the head of his father's house.

These were numbered by Moses and Aaron, and the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each chosen from his father's house.

The people of Israel will set up their tents by their own groups and armies, each man by his own flag.

"The people of Israel will set up their tents, each by his own flag and beside that of their fathers'. They will set up their tents to face the meeting tent on every side.

The number of all his army is 74,600.