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15 On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee you shall purchase the land from your neighbor;(A) and so also, on the basis of the number of years of harvest, that person shall sell it to you. 16 When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more; when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less. For it is really the number of harvests that the person sells you.

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15 You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years(A) since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. 16 When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price,(B) because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

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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.(A)

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26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper(A) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they are to determine the value for the years(B) 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.(C)

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50 With the purchaser they shall compute the years from the sale to the jubilee, distributing the sale price over these years as though they had been hired as laborers. 51 The more years there are, the more of the sale price they shall pay back as the redemption price; 52 the fewer years there are before the jubilee year, the more they have as credit; in proportion to the years of service they shall pay the redemption price.

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50 They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee.(A) The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker(B) for that number of years. 51 If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them. 52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.(C)

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