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'Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means among you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a resident, so that he may live with you.

'He shall then leave you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, so that he may return to the property of his forefathers.

then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

or his uncle, or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

'He then, with his purchaser, shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years calculated. It is like the days of a hired worker that he will be with him.

'If there are still many years remaining, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

but if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.

'Even if he is not redeemed by these means, he shall still leave in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

'Now if someone consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, then the priest shall assess it as either good or bad; as the priest assesses it, so shall it stand.

'Yet if the one who consecrates it should want to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your assessment price to it, so that it may be his.

'Again, if someone consecrates to the LORD part of the field of his own property, then your assessment shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

'If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your assessment it shall stand.

'If he consecrates his field after the jubilee, however, then the priest shall calculate the price for him proportionate to the years that are left until the year of jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your assessment.

and when it reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the LORD, like a field banned from secular use; it shall be for the priest as his property.

'Or if he consecrates to the LORD a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,

'Nevertheless, anything which someone sets apart to the LORD for destruction out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the field of his own property, shall not be sold nor redeemed. Anything set apart for destruction is most holy to the LORD.

'If, therefore, someone should ever want to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it a fifth of it.

"With you, moreover, there shall be a man of each tribe, each one head of his father's household.

These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron counted, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each of whom was of his father's household.

"So the sons of Israel shall camp, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own flag, according to their armies.