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23 The land shall not be sold irrevocably; for the land is mine, and you are but resident aliens and under my authority. 24 Therefore, in every part of the country that you occupy, you must permit the land to be redeemed. 25 When one of your kindred is reduced to poverty and has to sell some property, that person’s closest relative,[a] who has the duty to redeem it, shall come and redeem what the relative has sold.(A) 26 If, however, the person has no relative to redeem it, but later on acquires sufficient means to redeem it, 27 the person shall calculate the years since the sale, return the balance to the one to whom it was sold, and thus regain the property.(B) 28 But if the person does not acquire sufficient means to buy back the land, what was sold shall remain in the possession of the purchaser until the year of the jubilee, when it must be released and returned to the original owner.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 25:25 A close family member is responsible for redemption. Some of these are specified in v. 49.

23 “‘The land(A) must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine(B) and you reside in my land as foreigners(C) and strangers. 24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption(D) of the land.

25 “‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative(E) is to come and redeem(F) what they have sold. 26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper(G) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they are to determine the value for the years(H) since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.(I) 28 But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned(J) in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.(K)

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