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14 And when you[a] sell something to your[b] fellow citizen or you buy from your[c] neighbor’s hand, you[d] must not oppress one another.[e] 15 You[f] must buy from your fellow citizen according to the number of years after the Jubilee; he must sell to you according to the number of years of yield. 16 You[g] must increase its price according to a greater number of years,[h] but[i] you must decrease its price according to a lesser number of years,[j] because he is selling its yields to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:14 Plural
  2. Leviticus 25:14 Singular
  3. Leviticus 25:14 Singular
  4. Leviticus 25:14 Plural
  5. Leviticus 25:14 Literally “a man his brother”
  6. Leviticus 25:15 Singular throughout this verse
  7. Leviticus 25:16 Singular throughout this verse
  8. Leviticus 25:16 Literally “to the mouth of many of the years”
  9. Leviticus 25:16 Or “and”
  10. Leviticus 25:16 Literally “to the mouth of few of the years”

14 “‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.(A) 15 You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years(B) since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. 16 When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price,(C) because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

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