11 Bible Verses about Reversion Of Things
Most Relevant Verses
You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.
In this way you will set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold must be restored to the original owner or the descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves may return to their families.
In this jubilee year every slave will be freed in order to return to his property.
If he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.
Houses in villages without walls are regarded as belonging to the fields of the land. They can be bought back. They will be released in the jubilee.
If any Levite buys back a house, in the jubilee the purchased house in the city will be released. This is because the houses in the Levite cities are their property among the Israelites.
In the jubilee year the field will go back to the person from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as family property.
If he does not buy it back during that year, the house in the city belongs to the buyer for generations to come. It will not be released in the jubilee.
Suppose the prince offers a gift from his property to one of his servants. The gift will belong to the servant only until the year of freedom. Then the gift will go back to the prince. Only his sons can inherit his property.
If the people are worthy, let your blessing stand. If they are not worthy, let your peace return to you.
If a son of peace lives there, your peace shall rest upon him. If not, it shall return to you again.