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Leviticus 25:23-55 — The Year of Jubilee

Lev.25.23-55

²³The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is mine. For you are sojourners and residents with me. ²⁴And in all the land of your possession you shall provide for the redemption of the land. ²⁵If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his possession, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. ²⁶But if a man has no redeemer, and he prospers and finds enough for its redemption, ²⁷then he shall calculate the years since its sale and repay the surplus to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession. ²⁸But if he does not find enough to get it back, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee ; in the Jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession. ²⁹If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, its right of redemption shall last until the end of a full year from its sale; for a full year it may be redeemed. ³⁰But if it is not redeemed before a full year is completed, then the house in the city that has a wall shall pass permanently to the buyer throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the Jubilee. ³¹But the houses of villages that have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the Jubilee. ³²As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption. ³³If someone redeems from the Levites , then the sale of the house in the city of his possession shall go out in the Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites. ³⁴But the pastureland of their cities shall not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. ³⁵If your brother becomes poor and his means fail beside you, then you shall support him; as a sojourner and a resident he shall live with you. ³⁶Take no interest or profit from him, but fear your God, so that your brother may live with you. ³⁷You shall not give him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. ³⁸I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God. ³⁹If your brother becomes poor beside you and is sold to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave. ⁴⁰He shall be with you as a hired worker, as a resident; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee. ⁴¹Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his clan and to the possession of his fathers. ⁴²For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves are sold. ⁴³You shall not rule over him harshly, but you shall fear your God. ⁴⁴As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, you may buy male and female slaves from the nations around you. ⁴⁵You may also buy from the sons of the sojourners living among you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land; and they shall become your property. ⁴⁶You may leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to possess as property forever; you may make them serve as slaves. But over your brothers, the Israelites, no man shall rule over his brother harshly. ⁴⁷If a sojourner or resident with you becomes prosperous, and your brother beside him becomes poor and is sold to the sojourner or resident with you, or to a member of a sojourner's clan, ⁴⁸after he has been sold, he may be redeemed; one of his brothers may redeem him. ⁴⁹Or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his close blood-relatives from his clan may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰He shall reckon with his buyer from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee, and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; his time with him shall be valued as the time of a hired worker. ⁵¹If many years remain, in proportion to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money for which he was bought. ⁵²But if few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate with him; in proportion to his years he shall repay the price of his redemption. ⁵³He shall be with him like a hired worker from year to year; he shall not rule over him harshly in your sight. ⁵⁴And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him. ⁵⁵For the Israelites are my servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

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4/11/2026

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