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.
25. If an Israelite becomes poor and is forced to sell his land, his closest relative is to buy it back.
26. Anyone who has no relative to buy it back may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back.
27. In that case he must pay to the man who bought it a sum that will make up for the years remaining until the next Year of Restoration, when he would in any event recover his land.
28. But if he does not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the man who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.