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.
29. If someone sells a house in a walled city, he has the right to buy it back during the first full year from the date of sale.
30. But if he does not buy it back within the year, he loses the right of repurchase, and the house becomes the permanent property of the purchaser and his descendants; it will not be returned in the Year of Restoration.
31. But houses in unwalled villages are to be treated like fields; the original owner has the right to buy them back, and they are to be returned in the Year of Restoration.
32. However, Levites have the right to buy back at any time their property in the cities assigned to them.
33. If a house in one of these cities is sold by a Levite and is not bought back, it must be returned in the Year of Restoration, because the houses which the Levites own in their cities are their permanent property among the people of Israel.
34. But the pasture land round the Levite cities shall never be sold; it is their property for ever.
35. If a fellow-Israelite living near you becomes poor and cannot support himself or herself, you must provide for them as you would for hired servants, so that they can continue to live near you.
36. Do not charge them any interest, but obey God and let your fellow-Israelites live near you.