16. If there are still many years ⌊until the jubilee⌋, you will pay more for it. If there are only a few years ⌊until the jubilee⌋, you will pay less for it because he is selling you only the number of crops.
17. Never take advantage of each other. Fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.
18. “Obey my laws, and carefully follow my rules. Then you will live securely in the land.
19. The land will give you its products, and you will eat all you want and live there securely.
20. You may ask, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or bring in our crops?’
21. I will give you my blessing in the sixth year so that the land will produce enough for three years.
22. You will plant ⌊again⌋ in the eighth year but live on what the land already produced. You will eat it, even in the ninth year, until the land produces more.
23. “Land must never be sold permanently, because the land is mine. To me you are strangers without permanent homes.
24. People must always have the right to buy their property back.
25. If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his property, then the one who can assume responsibility, his nearest relative, must buy back what he sold.
26. If a man doesn’t have anyone to buy it back for him, but if he prospers and earns enough to buy it back himself,
27. he must count the years from its sale. Then he will pay what is left to the man to whom he sold it, and it will be his property again.
28. However, if he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.
29. “If anyone sells a home in a walled city, for one year after selling it he has the right to buy it back. He may buy it back only within that time.