Sinai & The Law

`And when a man selleth a dwelling-house in a walled city, then hath his right of redemption been until the completion of a year from its selling; days--is his right of redemption;

and if it is not redeemed until the fulness to him of a perfect year, then hath the house which is in a walled city been established to extinction to the buyer of it, to his generations; it goeth not out in the jubilee;

and a house of the villages which have no wall round about, on the field of the country is reckoned; redemption is to it, and in the jubilee it goeth out.

`As to cities of the Levites--houses of the cities of their possession--redemption age-during is to the Levites;

as to him who redeemeth from the Levites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession have gone out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel.

And a field, a suburb of their cities, is not sold; for a possession age-during it is to them.

`And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

I am Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become your God.

`And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, --

then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.

`For they are My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold with the sale of a servant;

thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.

`And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast are of the nations who are round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,

and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;

and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy for a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

`And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth riches , and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth redeem him,

or his uncle, or a son of his uncle, doth redeem him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, doth redeem him, or--his own hand hath attained--then he hath been redeemed.

`And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.

`If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption money , from the money of his purchase.

`And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he hath reckoned with him, according to his years he doth give back his redemption money ;

as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.