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If thy brother or thy sister be waxen poor and hath sold away some of their possession, and if any of their kin come to redeem it, then shall thou redeem that which thy brother sold.
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And if the thy have none to redeem it and they be able to redeem it, then let them count the years of the sale thereof and restore the surplus unto those to whom they sold it, that they may return unto their possession.
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But if they be not able to restore it, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of they that hath bought it until the year of Jubileea; and in the Jubilee it shall go out, and they shall return unto their possession; I am YHVHb, thy Elohimc.
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¶ And if a man sell his dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
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And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established forever to him that bought it throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the Jubilee.
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But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the Jubilee.
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But the field of the suburbsa of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetualb possession;
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And know this: That all the land belongeth to YHVH for a possession, thou mayest buy and sell, but know thee that it is mine, and I give it to all of Israel as an inheritance; I am YHVH, thy Elohim.
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¶ And if thy brother or sistera should wax poor and fall in decay with thee, then thou shalt relieveb them; yea, though they be a strangerc or a sojourner, that they may live with thee.
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Take thou no usurya of them, or increase; but fear thy Elohim, that thy brother or sister may live with thee.
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Thou shalt not give them thy money upon usury nor lend them thy food or provisions for increase.
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And if thy brother or sister that dwelleth by thee wax poor and be solda unto thee, thou shalt not compel them to serve as a bondservant;
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But as a hired servant and as a sojourner they shall be with thee and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee;
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And then shall they depart from thee, both they and their children with them, and shall return unto their own family; and unto the possession of their fathers shall they return.
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For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondservants.
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Thou shalt not rule over them with rigor, but shalt fear thy Elohim; I am YHVH, thy Elohim.
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¶ Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaidsa, which thou shalt have, shall be of the nations that are round about you; of them shall thou might buy bondmen and bondmaids.
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Moreover, of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them thou might purchase, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land; and they shall be as your brethren of Israel, thou shall not rule one over another with rigor.
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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor and sell themselves unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family,
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After that they are sold, they may be redeemeda again; one of their brethren may redeem them;
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Either their uncle or the son of their uncle may redeem them; or any that is nigh of kin unto the of their family may redeem them; or if they be able, they may redeem themselves.
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And they shall reckon with them that bought them, from the year that they were sold to them unto the year of Jubilee; and the price of their sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him; I am YHVH, thy Elohim.
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If there be yet many years behind, according unto them, they shall give again the price of their redemption out of the money that they were bought for.
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And if there remain but few years unto the year of Jubilee, then they shall count with them; and according unto their years shall they give them again the price of their redemption.
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And as a yearly hired servanta shall they be with them; and the other shall not rule with rigor over them in thy sight.
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And if they be redeemed not in these years, then they shall go out in the year of Jubilee, both they and their children with them.
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For unto me, my children, Israel, are servants; they are my servantsa whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; I am YHVH, thy Elohim.