Bible Verses About Land: Sale and redemption of, laws concerning

by the number of years after the jubilee thou dost buy from thy fellow; by the number of the years of increase he doth sell to thee;

according to the multitude of the years thou dost multiply its price, and according to the fewness of the years thou dost diminish its price; for a number of increases he is selling to thee;

`And the land is not sold--to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;

and in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to the land.

`When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient for its redemption,

then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold it , and he hath returned to his possession.

`And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.

`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.

if from the year of the jubilee he sanctify his field, according to thy valuation it standeth;

and if after the jubilee he sanctify his field, then hath the priest reckoned to him the money according to the years which are left, unto the year of the jubilee, and it hath been abated from thy valuation.

`And if he really redeem the field--he who is sanctifying it--then he hath added a fifth of the money of thy valuation to it, and it hath been established to him;

and if he do not redeem the field, or if he hath sold the field to another man, it is not redeemed any more;

and the field hath been, in its going out in the jubilee, holy to Jehovah as a field which is devoted; to the priest is its possession.

`And if the field of his purchase (which is not of the fields of his possession) one sanctify to Jehovah--

then hath the priest reckoned to him the amount of thy valuation unto the year of jubilee, and he hath given thy valuation in that day--a holy thing to Jehovah;

in the year of the jubilee the field returneth to him from whom he bought it, to him whose is the possession of the land.

Lo, Hanameel son of Shallum, thine uncle, is coming unto thee, saying, Buy for thee my field that is in Anathoth, for thine is the right of redemption--to buy.

And Hanameel, my uncle's son, cometh in unto me, according to the word of Jehovah, unto the court of the prison, and saith unto me, `Buy, I pray thee, my field that is in Anathoth, that is in the land of Benjamin, for thine is the right of possession, and thine of redemption--buy for thee.' And I know that it is the word of Jehovah,

And I buy the field, that is in Anathoth, from Hanameel, my uncle's son, and I weigh to him the money--seventeen shekels of silver.

And I write in a book, and seal, and cause witnesses to testify, and weigh the silver in balances;