sold for ever, because that the land is mine, and ye but strangers and
sojourners with me: and ye shall thorowout all the land of your
possession, let the land go home free again. When thy brother is waxed
poor and hath sold away of his possession: if any of his kin come to
redeem it, he shall buy out that which his brother sold. And though he
have no man to redeem it for him, yet if his hand can get sufficient to
buy it out again, then let him count how long it hath been sold, and
deliver the rest unto him to whom he sold it, and so he shall return
unto his possession again. But and if his hand can not get sufficient
to restore it to him again, then that which is sold shall remain in the
hand of him that hath bought it, until the horn year: {jubilee} and in
the horn year {of Jubilee} it shall come out, and he shall return unto
his possession again. If a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city,
he may buy it out again any time within a whole year after it is sold:
and that shall be the space in which he may redeem it again. But and if
it be not bought out again within the space of a full year, then the
house in the walled city shall be stablished for ever unto him that
bought it and to his successors after him and shall not go out in the
trompet year. {of jubilee} But the houses in villages which have no
walls round about them, shall be counted like unto the fields of the
country, and may be bought out again at any season, and shall go out
free in the trompet year. {of jubilee} Notwithstanding the cities of
the Levites and the houses in the cities of their possessions the
Levites may redeem at all seasons. And if a man purchase ought of the
Levites: whether it be house or city that they possess, the bargain
shall go out in the trompet year {of jubilee} for the houses of the
cities of the Levites, are their possessions among the children of
Israel. But the fields that lie round about their cities, shall not be
bought: for they are their possessions for ever. If thy brother be
waxed poor and fallen in decay with thee, receive him as a stranger or
a sojourner, and let him live by thee. And thou shalt take none usury
of him, nor yet vantage. But shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may
live with thee. Thou shalt not lend him thy money upon usury, nor lend
him of thy food to have advantage by it for I am the LORD your God
which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan and to be your God. If thy brother that dwelleth by thee wax
poor and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not let him labour as a
bondservant doeth: but as an hired servant and as a sojourner he shall
be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the trompet year, {of jubilee}
and then shall he depart from thee: both he and his children with him,
and shall return unto his own kindred again and unto the possessions of
his fathers; for they are my servants which I brought out of the land
of Egypt, and shall not be sold as bondmen. See therefore that thou
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