9. Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month let the ram’s horn resound; on this, the Day of Atonement, the ram’s horn blast shall resound throughout your land.
10. You shall treat this fiftieth year as sacred. You shall proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to your own property, each of you to your own family.
11. This fiftieth year is your year of jubilee; you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick the untrimmed vines,
12. since this is the jubilee. It shall be sacred for you. You may only eat what the field yields of itself.
13. In this year of jubilee, then, each of you shall return to your own property.
14. Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from your neighbor, do not deal unfairly with one another.
15. On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee you shall purchase the land from your neighbor; and so also, on the basis of the number of years of harvest, that person shall sell it to you.
16. When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more; when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less. For it is really the number of harvests that the person sells you.
17. Do not deal unfairly with one another, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the Lord, am your God.
18. Observe my statutes and be careful to keep my ordinances, so that you will dwell securely in the land.
19. The land will yield its fruit and you will eat your fill, and live there securely.
20. And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow or reap our crop?”
21. I will command such a blessing for you in the sixth year that there will be crop enough for three years,
22. and when you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the old crop; even into the ninth year, until the crop comes in, you will still be eating from the old crop.
23. The land shall not be sold irrevocably; for the land is mine, and you are but resident aliens and under my authority.
24. Therefore, in every part of the country that you occupy, you must permit the land to be redeemed.
25. When one of your kindred is reduced to poverty and has to sell some property, that person’s closest relative, who has the duty to redeem it, shall come and redeem what the relative has sold.
26. If, however, the person has no relative to redeem it, but later on acquires sufficient means to redeem it,
27. the person shall calculate the years since the sale, return the balance to the one to whom it was sold, and thus regain the property.
28. But if the person does not acquire sufficient means to buy back the land, what was sold shall remain in the possession of the purchaser until the year of the jubilee, when it must be released and returned to the original owner.