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He that giveth a blemish to any of his neighbours: as he hath done, so shall it be done to him:

And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:

Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God. Because I am the Lord your God.

If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.

The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it. And the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.

But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.

If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.

And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.

If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:

After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:

Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself:

Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant.

His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.

And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man that shall have made a vow, and promised his soul to God, shall give the price according to estimation.

If a man shall vow his house, and sanctify it to the Lord, the priest shall consider it, whether it be good or bad: and it shall be sold according to the price, which he shall appoint.

And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty sicles of silver.

If he vow his field immediately from the year of jubilee that is beginning: as much as it may be worth, at so much it shall be rated.

And if he that had vowed, will redeem his field, he shall add the fifth part of the money of the estimation, and shall possess it.

But in the jubilee, it shall return to the former owner, who had sold it, and had it in the lot of his possession.