‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

If there are still many years, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

‘Again, if a man consecrates to the Lord part of the fields of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,

If, therefore, a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it one-fifth of it.

For every tenth part of herd or flock, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth one shall be holy to the Lord.