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And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him,

And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.

"In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

"If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.

let him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.

But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.

then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,

or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.

He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker.

If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.

If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.

And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.

"When a man dedicates his house as a holy gift to the Lord , the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

And if the donor wishes to redeem his house, he shall add a fifth to the valuation price, and it shall be his.

"If a man dedicates to the Lord part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

If he dedicates his field from the year of jubilee, the valuation shall stand,