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14 If you make a sale, moreover, to your companion or buy from your friend’s hand, (A)you shall not mistreat one another. 15 Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your [a]companion; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of produce. 16 (B)In proportion to the [b]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 the number of crops it produces that he is selling to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:15 Lit companion’s hands
  2. Leviticus 25:16 Lit multitude

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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