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Bible Verses About Agriculture or Husbandry: The rights of redemption

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Verses on The rights of redemption

  1. "'The land is not to be sold in perpetuity, because the land belongs to me -you are only foreigners and temporary residents with me.

  2. Therefore, when you sell your property, you must include the right of redemption.

  3. That is, if one of you becomes poor and sells some of his property, his next-of-kin can come and buy back what his relative sold.

  4. If the seller has no one to redeem it but becomes rich enough to redeem it himself,

  5. he will calculate the number of years the land was sold for, refund the excess to its buyer, and return to his property.

  6. If he hasn't sufficient means to get it back himself, then what he sold will remain in the hands of the buyer until the year of yovel; in the yovel the buyer will vacate it and the seller return to his property.