²⁹“ ‘If someone sells a home in a walled city, for a full year after it is sold, the person has the right to buy it back. ³⁰But if the owner does not buy back the house before a full year is over, it will belong to the one who bought it and to his future sons. The house will not go back to the first owner at Jubilee. ³¹But houses in small towns without walls are like open country; they can be bought back, and they must be returned to their first owner at Jubilee.

³²“ ‘The Levites may always buy back their houses in the cities that belong to them. ³³If someone buys a house from a Levite, that house in the Levites’ city will again belong to the Levites in the Jubilee. This is because houses in Levite cities belong to the people of Levi; the Israelites gave these cities to them. ³⁴Also the fields and pastures around the Levites’ cities cannot be sold, because those fields belong to the Levites forever.

Rules for Slave Owners

³⁵“ ‘If anyone from your country becomes too poor to support himself, help him to live among you as you would a stranger or foreigner. ³⁶Do not charge him any interest on money you loan to him, but respect your God; let the poor live among you. ³⁷Don’t lend him money for interest, and don’t try to make a profit from the food he buys. ³⁸I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give the land of Canaan to you and to become your God.

³⁹“ ‘If anyone from your country becomes very poor and sells himself as a slave to you, you must not make him work like a slave. ⁴⁰He will be like a hired worker and a visitor with you until the year of Jubilee. ⁴¹Then he may leave you, take his children, and go back to his family and the land of his ancestors.

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