Leviticus 25:13-28 - Release Of Landed Property
13 In this jubilee year every slave will be freed in order to return to his property. 14 In the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another. 15 Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. 16 In proportion to the 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 a number of crops he is selling to you. 17 You must not wrong one another. You shall respect your God. I am Jehovah your God.
18 You must observe my statutes and keep my judgments, so as to carry them out. That way you may live securely on the land. 19 The land will give you its products. You will eat all you want and live there securely. 20 You may ask: What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or bring in our crops?' 21 I will give you my blessing in the sixth year so that the land will produce enough for three years. 22 You will plant again in the eighth year but live on what the land already produced. You will eat it, even in the ninth year, until the land produces more.
23 No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while. 24 When property is sold, the original owner must be given the first chance to buy it. 25 If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back. 26 If that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it, 27 you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again. 28 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.