Bible Verses About The Feast of Jubilee

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

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

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.

"'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].

If he consecrates his field during the year of yovel, this valuation will stand.

But if he consecrates his field after the yovel, then the cohen is to calculate the price according to the years remaining till the next yovel, with a corresponding reduction from your valuation.

If the one consecrating the field wishes to redeem it, he must add one-fifth to your valuation, and the field will be set aside to revert to him.

If the seller does not wish to redeem the field, or if [the treasurer for the cohanim] has already sold the field to someone else, it can no longer be redeemed.

But when the purchaser has to vacate the field in the yovel, it will become holy to ADONAI, like a field unconditionally consecrated; it will belong to the cohanim.

"'If he consecrates to ADONAI a field which he has bought, a field which is not part of his tribe's possession,

then the cohen is to calculate its value according to the years remaining until the year of yovel; and the man will on that same day pay this amount; since it is holy to ADONAI.