Quotes About Ownership

But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

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

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

he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.

But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.

If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.

But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

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

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

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.

He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.

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

And if the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it shall belong to him.

If, however, he does not redeem the field, or if he has sold it to another man, it may no longer be redeemed.

When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.

Now if a man consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not a part of his own property,

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