Redemption of Property

​Redemption of Property

“The land must never be sold, on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to Me (says the Lord). 

You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for Me. 

“With every purchase of land, you must grant the seller the right to buy it back. If one, of your fellow Israelites, falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then …a close relative should buy it back, for him. 

If there is no close relative, to buy the land, but the person, who sold it, gets enough money, to buy it back, he then has the right to redeem it, from the one who bought it. 

The price, of the land, will be discounted, according to the number of years, until the next Year of Jubilee. 

In this way, the original owner can then return, to the land. 

But, if the original owner, cannot afford, to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner, until the next Year of Jubilee. 

In the jubilee year, the land must be returned, to the original owners, so they can return to their family land. 

“Anyone who sells a house, inside a walled town, has the right to buy it back, for a full year, after its sale. 

During that year, the seller retains the right, to buy it back. 

But, if it is not bought back, within a year, the sale of the house, within the walled town, cannot be reversed. 

It will become the permanent property, of the buyer. 

It will not be returned, to the original owner, in the Year of Jubilee. 

But a house in a village—a settlement without fortified walls—will be treated like property, in the countryside. 

Such a house, may be bought back, at any time, and it must be returned, to the original owner, in the Year of Jubilee. 

“The Levites, however, always have the right, to buy back a house, which they have sold, within the towns, which are allotted to them. 

And any property that is sold by the Levites—all houses within the Levitical towns—must be returned, in the Year of Jubilee. 

After all, the houses, in the towns reserved for the Levites, are the only property they own, in all of Israel. 

The open pastureland, around the Levitical towns, may never be sold. 

It is their permanent possession. 

Leviticus 25:23–34 (NLT)

Praise be to God!



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