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.
30. If he does not buy it back during that year, the house in the city belongs to the buyer for generations to come. It will not be released in the jubilee.
31. However, houses in villages without walls are regarded as belonging to the fields of the land. They can be bought back. They will be released in the jubilee.
32. “The Levites always have the right to buy back their property in the cities they own.
33. If any Levite buys back ⌊a house⌋, in the jubilee the purchased house in the city will be released, because the houses in the Levite cities are their property among the Israelites.
34. But a field that belongs to their cities must not be sold, because it is their permanent property.