Bible Verses About Redemption: Of persons or property

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.

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

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

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.

"'If someone sells a dwelling in a walled city, he has one year after the date of sale in which to redeem it. For a full year he will have the right of redemption;

but if he has not redeemed the dwelling in the walled city within the year, then title in perpetuity passes to the buyer through all his generations; it will not revert in the yovel.

However, houses in villages not surrounded by walls are to be dealt with like the fields in the countryside - they may be redeemed [before the yovel], and they revert in the yovel.

"'Concerning the cities of the L'vi'im and the houses in the cities they possess, the L'vi'im are to have a permanent right of redemption.

If someone purchases a house from one of the L'vi'im, then the house he sold in the city where he owns property will still revert to him in the yovel; because the houses in the cities of the L'vi'im are their tribe's possession among the people of Isra'el.

The fields in the open land around their cities may not be sold, because that is their permanent possession.

"Tell the people of Isra'el, 'If someone makes a clearly defined vow to ADONAI to give him an amount equal to the value of a human being,

the value you are to assign to a man between the ages of twenty and sixty years is to be fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds], with the sanctuary shekel being the standard,

if a woman, thirty shekels.

If it is a child five to twenty years old, assign a value of twenty shekels for a boy and ten for a girl;

if a baby one month to five years of age, five shekels for a boy and three for a girl;

if a person past sixty, fifteen shekels for a man and ten for a woman.

If the person is too poor to be evaluated, set him before the cohen, who will assign him a value in keeping with the means of the person who made the vow.

"'If the vow is for the value of an animal of the kind used when people bring an offering to ADONAI, all that a person gives of such animals to ADONAI will be holy.

He is not to exchange or replace it by substituting a good animal for a bad one or vice versa; if he does make such a substitution, both the original animal and the one replacing it will be holy.

If the animal is an unclean one, such as may not be used in an offering to ADONAI, he must set it before the cohen;

and the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by you the cohen will stand.

But if the person making the vow wishes to redeem the animal, he must add one-fifth to your valuation.

"'When a person consecrates his house to be holy for ADONAI, the cohen is to set a value on it in relation to its good and bad points; the value set by the cohen will stand.

If the consecrator wishes to redeem his house, he must add one-fifth to the value you have set on it; and it will revert to him.

"'If a person consecrates to ADONAI part of a field belonging to his tribe's possession, you are to value it according to its production, with five bushels of barley being valued at fifty shekels of silver [one-and-a-quarter pounds].