Leviticus 25:31
The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee.
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- Ps 49:7-8 : 7 Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price 8 (the ransom price for a human life is too high, and people go to their final destiny),
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- Lev 25:23-308 verses89%
23The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreign residents, temporary settlers, with me.
24In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.
25“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.
26If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption,
27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.
29Release of Houses“‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.
30If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee.
- Lev 25:32-343 verses86%
32As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.
33Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem– the sale of a house which is his property in a city– must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.
34Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.
- Lev 25:48-525 verses77%
48after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,
49or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives– his family– may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself.
50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.
51If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,
52but if only a few years remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption.
- Lev 27:17-248 verses77%
17If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, the conversion value will stand,
18but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.
19If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price and it will belong to him.
20If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.
21When it reverts in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the LORD like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest’s property.
22“‘If he consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,
23the priest will calculate for him the amount of its conversion value until the jubilee year, and he must pay the conversion value on that jubilee day as something that is holy to the LORD.
24In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.
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54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,
- Lev 25:10-134 verses75%
10So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.
11That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.
12Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you– you may eat its produce from the field.
13Release of Landed Property“‘In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.
- Lev 27:13-153 verses75%
13If, however, the person who made the vow redeems the animal, he must add one fifth to its conversion value.
14Redemption of Vowed Houses“‘If a man consecrates his house as holy to the LORD, the priest will establish its conversion value, whether good or bad. Just as the priest establishes its conversion value, thus it will stand.
15If the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he must add to it one fifth of its conversion value in silver, and it will belong to him.
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15You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.
- Num 35:2-43 verses72%
2“Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.
3Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.
4The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.
- Lev 25:40-412 verses71%
40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee,
41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
- Lev 27:27-293 verses70%
27If, however, it is among the unclean animals, he may ransom it according to its conversion value and must add one fifth to it, but if it is not redeemed it must be sold according to its conversion value.
28Things Permanently Dedicated to the Lord“‘Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the LORD from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the LORD.
29Any human being who is permanently dedicated must not be ransomed; such a person must be put to death.
- Deut 15:1-22 verses70%
1Release for Debt Slaves At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts.
2This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as“the LORD’s cancellation of debts.”
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9The LORD of Heaven’s Armies told me this:“Many houses will certainly become desolate, large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.
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11You will say,“I will invade a land of unwalled towns; I will advance against those living quietly in security– all of them living without walls and barred gates–
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15For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says,“Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”’
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27As for the Levites in your villages, you must not ignore them, for they have no allotment or inheritance along with you.
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5You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.
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24The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.
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5An area eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities in which they will live.