Quotes About Community

Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.

So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.

But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.

If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,

either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.

If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.

In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.

“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.

You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israelís army.

And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.