Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Leviticus 25:20-35 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

20. But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

21. I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years:

22. And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.

23. The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

24. For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.

25. If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will, he may redeem what he had sold.

26. But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

27. The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it: and the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.

28. But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.

29. He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired:

30. If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.

31. But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields: if it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.

32. The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed:

33. If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.

34. But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.

35. If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee,