Leviticus 25:23–34

²³“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is mine, and you are only aliens and temporary residents on my land.^{Af 24}You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy. ²⁵If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold. ²⁶If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers^A and obtains enough to redeem his land, ²⁷he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property. ²⁸But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.

²⁹“If a man sells a residence in a walled city, his right of redemption will last until a year has passed after its sale; his right of redemption will last a year. ³⁰If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its purchaser throughout his generations. It is not to be released on the Jubilee. ³¹But houses in settlements that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem such houses stays in effect, and they are to be released at the Jubilee.

³²“Concerning the Levitical cities,^g the Levites always have the right to redeem houses in the cities they possess. ³³Whatever property one of the Levites can redeem^B—a house sold in a city they possess—is to be released at the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites. ³⁴The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.