Leviticus 25:23–34

²³The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.^{* 24}Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

²⁵“If anyone of your kin falls into difficulty and sells a piece of property, then the next of kin shall come and redeem what the relative has sold.^{* 26}If the person has no one to redeem it but then prospers and finds sufficient means to do so, ²⁷the years since its sale shall be computed and the difference refunded to the person to whom it was sold, and the property shall be returned.^{* 28}But if there are not sufficient means to recover it, what was sold shall remain with the purchaser until the year of Jubilee; in the Jubilee it shall be released, and the property shall be returned.^*

²⁹“If anyone sells a dwelling house in a walled city, it may be redeemed until a year has elapsed since its sale; the right of redemption shall be one year. ³⁰If it is not redeemed before a full year has elapsed, a house that is in a walled city shall pass in perpetuity to the purchaser, throughout the generations; it shall not be released in the Jubilee. ³¹But houses in villages that have no walls around them shall be classed as open country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. ³²As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites shall forever have the right of redemption of the houses in the cities belonging to them.^{* 33}Whatever property of the Levites that may be redeemed, that is, houses sold in a city belonging to them, shall be released in the Jubilee, for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites. ³⁴But the pasturelands around their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession for all time.