24 So for every [a]piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

25 (A)If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor that he sells part of his property, then his closest [b]redeemer is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. 26 Or in case someone has no redeemer, but [c]recovers to find sufficient means for its redemption, 27 (B)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. 28 But if [d]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 [e]revert, so that (C)he may return to his property.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:24 Lit land
  2. Leviticus 25:25 I.e., male relative to act in his behalf
  3. Leviticus 25:26 Lit his hand reaches
  4. Leviticus 25:28 Lit his hand has not found sufficient to
  5. Leviticus 25:28 Lit go out

24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption(A) of the land.

25 “‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative(B) is to come and redeem(C) what they have sold. 26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper(D) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they are to determine the value for the years(E) since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.(F) 28 But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned(G) in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.(H)

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31 The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall, shall be regarded [a]as open fields; they have redemption rights and [b]revert in the jubilee.

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  1. Leviticus 25:31 Lit according to
  2. Leviticus 25:31 Lit go out

31 But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

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