Redemption of Property
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"The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for s the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.
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And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.
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"If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, t then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
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If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
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let u him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property.
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But if he has not sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall v be released, and w he shall return to his property.
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"If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
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If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; v it shall not be released in the jubilee.
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But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and v they shall be released in the jubilee.
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As for x the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.
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And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.
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But the fields y of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:43
"Rejoice with him, O heavens; bow down to him, ...
2 Chronicles 7:20
Then I will pluck you up from my land that I ha...
Psalms 85:1
Lord, you were favorable to your land; you rest...
Hosea 9:3
They shall not remain in the land of the Lord, ...
Joel 2:18
Then the Lord became jealous for his land and h...
Joel 3:2
I will gather all the nations and bring them do...
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Cross References
Ruth 2:20
And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he ...
Ruth 3:9
He said, "Who are you?" And she answered, "I am...
Ruth 3:12
And now it is true that I am a redeemer. Yet th...
Ruth 4:4
So I thought I would tell you of it and say, 'B...
Ruth 4:6
Then the redeemer said, "I cannot redeem it for...
Jeremiah 32:7 - 8
Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle w...
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:50 - 52
He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.
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Cross References
Leviticus 27:21
But the field, when it is released in the jubilee, shall be a holy gift to the Lord, like a field that has been devoted. The priest shall be in possession of it.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:13
In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
Leviticus 25:41
Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:28
But if he has not sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
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Cross References
Leviticus 25:28
But if he has not sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:2
Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.
Joshua 21:2 - 40
And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, "The Lord commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.
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Cross References
Numbers 35:2
Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities.
1 Chronicles 13:2
And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you and from the Lord our God, let us send abroad to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, as well as to the priests and Levites in the cities that have pasturelands, that they may be gathered to us.
Acts 4:36 - 37
Thus Joseph, who was also called by the apostles Barnabas (which means son of encouragement), a Levite, a native of Cyprus.
Joshua 21:11 - 42
They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.
1 Chronicles 6:55 - 81
To them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands.
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