2. to say to the community of Israel:After you enter the land that I am giving you, it must be allowed to rest one year out of every seven.
3. You may raise grain and grapes for six years,
4. but the seventh year you must let your fields and vineyards rest in honour of me, your Lord.
5. This is to be a time of complete rest for your fields and vineyards, so don't harvest anything they produce.
8. Once every forty-nine years
9. on the tenth day of the seventh month, which is also the Great Day of Forgiveness, trumpets are to be blown everywhere in the land.
18-19. If you obey my laws and teachings, you will live safely in the land and enjoy its abundant crops.
20. Don't ever worry about what you will eat during the seventh year when you are forbidden to plant or harvest.
21. I will see to it that you harvest enough in the sixth year to last for three years.
22. In the eighth year you will live on what you harvested in the sixth year, but in the ninth year you will eat what you plant and harvest in the eighth year.
23. No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me—it isn't your land, and you only live there for a little while.
24. When property is being sold, the original owner must be given the first chance to buy it.
25. If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back,
26. if that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it,
27. you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again.
28. But if you don't have the money to pay the present owner a fair price, you will have to wait until the Year of Celebration, when the property will once again become yours.