15 Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your [a]friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. 16 (A)In proportion to [b]a greater number of years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to [c]fewer years you shall decrease its price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you. 17 So (B)you shall not [d]wrong one another, but you shall [e]fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:15 Lit friend’s hands
  2. Leviticus 25:16 Lit the multitude of
  3. Leviticus 25:16 Lit the years being few
  4. Leviticus 25:17 Lit oppress
  5. Leviticus 25:17 Or revere

15 You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years(A) 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,(B) because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. 17 Do not take advantage of each other,(C) but fear your God.(D) I am the Lord your God.(E)

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