Leviticus 25:23–34

The Redemption of Land

²³‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for ^athe land is Mine; for ^byou are but sojourners and foreign residents with Me.

²⁴‘Thus for every ¹piece of land of your possession, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

²⁵‘^aIf a brother of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his possession of land, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother has sold.

²⁶‘Or in case a man has no kinsman redeemer, but ¹recovers his means and finds sufficient payment for its redemption,

^27athen he shall calculate the years since its sale and return the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his possession of land.

²⁸‘But if ¹he has not found sufficient means to return it to himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall ²revert, that ^ahe may return to his possession of land.

²⁹‘Likewise, if a man sells a house for habitation in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

³⁰‘But if it is not redeemed for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not ¹revert in the jubilee.

³¹‘The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall, shall be considered ¹as open fields; they have redemption rights and ²revert in the jubilee.

³²‘As for ^acities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.

³³‘What, therefore, ¹belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale ²in the city of ³their possession ⁴reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

³⁴‘^aBut pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.