Leviticus 25:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

Additional Resources

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Lev 25:30-34
    5 verses
    92%

    30 And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

    31 But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

    32 But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

    33 And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

    34 But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

  • Lev 25:23-28
    6 verses
    85%

    23 No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

    24 Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

    25 If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

    26 And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

    27 Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

    28 But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

  • Lev 25:47-54
    8 verses
    79%

    47 And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

    48 After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

    49 Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.

    50 And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

    51 If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

    52 And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

    53 And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

    54 And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

  • Lev 27:17-24
    8 verses
    77%

    17 If he gives his field from the year of Jubilee, the value will be fixed by your decision.

    18 But if he gives his field after the year of Jubilee, the amount of the money will be worked out by the priest in relation to the number of years till the coming year of Jubilee, and the necessary amount will be taken off your value.

    19 And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.

    20 But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.

    21 But the field, when it becomes free at the year of Jubilee, will be holy to the Lord, as a field given under oath: it will be the property of the priest.

    22 And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage;

    23 Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord.

    24 In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.

  • Lev 27:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

    13 But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value.

    14 And if a man has given his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest will put a value on it, if it is good or bad; as the priest gives decision so will the value be fixed.

    15 And if the owner has a desire to get back his house, let him give a fifth more than your value, and it will be his.

  • Lev 25:13-16
    4 verses
    75%

    13 In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.

    14 And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

    15 Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

    16 If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

  • Lev 25:39-41
    3 verses
    70%

    39 And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

    40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

    41 Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

  • Lev 27:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27 And if it is an unclean beast, then the owner of it may give money to get it back, in agreement with the value fixed by you, by giving a fifth more; or if it is not taken back, let it be given for money in agreement with your valuing.

    28 But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.

  • 10 And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

  • 31 And if a man has a desire to get back any of the tenth part which he has given, let him give a fifth more.

  • 13 For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:

  • Deut 15:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1 At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.

    2 This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.

  • 12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

  • 28 Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

  • 4 And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it.

  • 15 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, There will again be trading in houses and fields and vine-gardens in this land.

  • 2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

  • 32 And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest.