Leviticus 25:25–43

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.

Redemption Rights for Poor Brothers

³⁵‘^aNow if a brother of yours becomes poor and his ¹means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a sojourner or a foreign resident, that he may live with you.

³⁶‘^aDo not take ¹usurious interest from him, but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

³⁷‘You shall not give him your silver at interest nor your food for gain.

³⁸‘^aI am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and ^bto be your God.

³⁹‘^aIf a brother of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

⁴⁰‘He shall be with you as a hired man, as ^aif he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

⁴¹‘He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family, that he may return to the possession of the land of his fathers.

⁴²‘For they are My slaves whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold in a slave sale.

⁴³‘^aYou shall not have dominion over him with brutality, but you shall fear your God.