Return of the sold land and the sold house

23No land can be sold forever, for the land is mine, and you are my guests and temporary residents of it. 24 Wherefore in all the land which ye now possess, ye shall secure the right of redemption. 25If one of you becomes poor and is forced to sell his land, then his next of kin must come and redeem what the poor man has sold. 26 If, however, he has no one to redeem the land, and some time later he himself is able to obtain sufficient funds to redeem it, 27 then the value of the land for the years that have elapsed since the sale must be deducted, and after paying the remaining difference to the purchaser, he may return to his plot of land. 28But if he could not find the necessary amount for redemption, then what was sold would remain in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee year, it will again become the property of the first owner, and he will be able to return and live on his land.

29And if anyone sells a house within the city limits, within its walls, he has the right to redeem this house within a year from the date of sale. At this time, he retains such a right. 30But if a house within the city limits, within the walls of the city, is not redeemed within the course of a year, it will go to the buyer forever, in full possession of himself and his descendants, and will not be returned even in the year of jubilee. 31Houses in unwalled villages, however, are considered part of the land. They are subject to redemption and must be returned in the jubilee year.

32But the Levites always have a right to redeem their property in their cities, 33which any of them may exercise; A house sold in the city allotted to them will be returned to its former owner, Levite, in the year of jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel. 34 But the pasture fields around the cities of the Levites are not for sale at all, because they are given to the Levites for eternal possession.

35If your Israelite brother falls into poverty and can no longer live in your community on his own, you must support him as you would support a stranger who has come to live with you, and let him live near you. 36Do not take exorbitant interest from him, do not profit from him. Fear your God: let your brother dwell near you, 37do not lend him your money at interest, and do not lend him the bread you lend him for profit. 38I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the lands of Canaan and become your God.

39But if your Israelite brother falls into such poverty that he sells himself to you for debts, do not force him to work like a slave. 40Let him live with you as a hireling or as a exile, and let him serve you until the year of jubilee, 41when he will be able to leave you with his children, and return again to his generation, to the land of his fathers. 42For those whom I brought out of Egypt are my servants. They cannot be sold as slaves are sold. 43Do not treat him harshly, but fear your God.

44As for the male or female servant who might belong to you, you may buy them from the nations that live around you. 45You may also buy as slaves the children of the emigrants, of those who live with you as strangers, the children of their families born in your lands. They will become your property, 46and you will be able to pass them on to your children as property. Purchased slaves can remain slaves with you forever. But as for your brethren, the children of Israel, no man has the right to rule over his brother, and to be cruel to him.

47If a man of another nation who dwells among you becomes rich, and your brother an Israelite becomes so poor that he sells himself for debts to a man of a stranger living among you, or to a descendant of a foreign family, 48then the one who sold himself still has the right to redemption, and this must be done by one of his brothers, 49his uncle or cousin. he can also be redeemed by one of his close relatives, from his family. Or he himself will eventually be able to redeem himself. 50Together with the one who bought it, he should determine the number of years from the date of the transaction to the year of jubilee. The price for his release must correspond to the salary of the employee for the same number of years. 51 If there are still many years left before the year of jubilee, he shall return the greater part of the money paid for it. 52And if the year of jubilee is not far away, then, having counted the remaining years, he must return the ransom for himself in the amount corresponding to the number of these years. 53The one who bought it must have it in the position of a worker hired for a year. And you must not allow his owner to treat him mercilessly.

E-54 If that man is not ransomed in any way, he must be set free in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him. 55For all the children of Israel belong to me as servants, they are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Blessings as a Result of Obedience

26 Do not make yourselves lifeless idols, images of idols, and holy pillars. Do not set up carved images of stone in your lands to prostrate yourself before them to worship, for I am the Lord your God. 2Ye shall keep my sabbaths without fail, and honour my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

3 If you follow my statutes, and keep my commandments faithfully, 4 I will send you rain in due season, and your land will yield crops, and the trees[954] will abound in fruit. 5Your threshing will go on until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest until the new sowing. You will eat plenty and live peacefully on your land.

6I will give peace to your land, and no one will disturb your sleep. I will drive out the fierce beasts from your lands, and no one will encroach on your land. 7Put your enemies to flight, and they will fall before you by the sword. 8Five will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will be able to pursue tens of thousands. And your enemies will fall by your sword.

9I will show you my disposition, and I will make you fruitful and numerous. and I will keep My covenant, My covenant with you.