18. “You are to keep My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.
19. Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat, be satisfied, and live securely in the land.
20. If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce? ’
21. I will appoint My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.
22. When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest. You will be eating this until the ninth year when its harvest comes in.
23. “The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.
24. You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy.
25. If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
26. If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land,
27. he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.
28. But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in the possession of its purchaser until the Year of Jubilee. It is to be released at the Jubilee, so that he may return to his property.
29. “If a man sells a residence in a walled city, his right of redemption will last until a year has passed after its sale; his right of redemption will last a year.
30. If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its purchaser throughout his generations. It is not to be released on the Jubilee.
31. But houses in villages that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem such houses stays in effect, and they are to be released at the Jubilee.
32. “Concerning the Levitical cities, the Levites always have the right to redeem houses in the cities they possess.
33. Whatever property one of the Levites can redeem — a house sold in a city they possess — must be released at the Jubilee, because the houses in the Levitical cities are their possession among the Israelites.
34. The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.
35. “If your brother becomes destitute and cannot sustain himself among you, you are to support him as a foreigner or temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.