Leviticus 25:29–41

²⁹‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house 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 bought back 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 this possession ³reverts 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.

Of Poor Countrymen

³⁵‘^aNow in case a ¹countryman of yours becomes poor and his ²means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

³⁶‘^aDo not take ¹usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your ²countryman may live with you.

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

³⁸‘^aI am the Lord 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 ¹countryman 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 sojourner; 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 go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.