Leviticus 25:33

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Num 18:20-24 : 20 And the Lord said to Aaron, You will have no heritage in their land, or any part among them; I am your part and your heritage among the children of Israel. 21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting. 22 In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin. 23 But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage. 24 For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.
  • Deut 18:1-2 : 1 The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire. 2 And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

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  • Lev 25:23-32
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    88%

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

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

    25If 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.

    26And 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;

    27Then 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.

    28But 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.

    29And 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.

    30And 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.

    31But 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.

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

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

  • Lev 25:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

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

  • Lev 27:17-24
    8 verses
    78%

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

    18But 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.

    19And 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.

    20But 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.

    21But 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.

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

    23Then 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.

    24In 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 25:47-54
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    77%

    47And 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;

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

    49Or 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.

    50And 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.

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

    52And 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.

    53And 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.

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

  • 15And 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.

  • Num 35:2-3
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    74%

    2Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

    3These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

  • Lev 25:15-16
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    74%

    15Let 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.

    16If 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.

  • 10And 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.

  • Lev 25:40-41
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    72%

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

    41Then 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.

  • 45And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

  • 4And at the time of the Jubilee of the children of Israel, their property will be joined to the heritage of the tribe of which they are part and will be taken away from the heritage of the tribe of our fathers.

  • 3And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

  • 5A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.

  • 27And give a thought to the Levite who is living among you, for he has no part or heritage in the land.

  • Lev 27:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27And 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.

    28But 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.

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

  • 15For 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.

  • 8And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.

  • 11And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

  • 17And if he gives a part of his heritage to one of his servants, it will be his till the year of making free, and then it will go back to the ruler; for it is his sons' heritage, and is to be theirs.

  • 12If 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.