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You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and ^(e)proclaim ^[c]a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, ^[d]and ^(f)each of you shall return to his own property, ^[e]and each of you shall return to his family.

You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.

For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.

‘^(g)On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.

If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, ^(h)you shall not wrong one another.

Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your ^[f]friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops.

⁽ⁱ⁾In proportion to the ^[g]extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you.

So ^(j)you shall not wrong one another, but you shall ^[h]fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that ^(k)you may live securely on the land.

Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

But if you say, "^(l)What are we going to eat on the seventh year ^[i]if we do not sow or gather in our crops?"

then ^(m)I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.

When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat ⁽ⁿ⁾old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.

‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for ^(o)the land is Mine; for ^(p)you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

Thus for every ^[j]piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

‘^(q)If a ^[k]fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his ^[l]relative has sold.

Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so ^[m]recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

^(r)then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.

But if ^[n]he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall ^[o]revert, that ^(s)he may return to his property.

‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not ^[p]revert in the jubilee.

The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall shall be considered ^[q]as open fields; they have redemption rights and ^[r]revert in the jubilee.

As for ^(t)cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.

What, therefore, ^[s]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale ^[t]in the city of this possession ^[u]reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

^(u)But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.