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Leviticus 25:14-24 Good News Bible (GNB)

14. So when you sell land to your fellow-Israelite or buy land from him, do not deal unfairly.

15. The price is to be fixed according to the number of years the land can produce crops before the next Year of Restoration.

16. If there are many years, the price shall be higher, but if there are only a few years, the price shall be lower, because what is being sold is the number of crops the land can produce.

17. Do not cheat a fellow-Israelite, but obey the Lord your God.

18. Obey all the Lord's laws and commands, so that you may live in safety in the land.

19. The land will produce its crops, and you will have all you want to eat and will live in safety.

20. But someone may ask what there will be to eat during the seventh year, when no fields are sown and no crops gathered.

21. The Lord will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will produce enough food for two years.

22. When you sow your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating what you harvested during the sixth year, and you will have enough to eat until the crops you plant that year are harvested.

23. Your land must not be sold on a permanent basis, because you do not own it; it belongs to God, and you are like foreigners who are allowed to make use of it.

24. When land is sold, the right of the original owner to buy it back must be recognized.