¹⁷ The king may also choose to give some of his land to one of his servants. If he does that, the servant can keep the land until the year of Jubilee.^[a] After that, the land will belong to the ruler again. The ruler's land will always belong to the ruler and to his descendants. ¹⁸ The king must not take for himself any land that belongs to the people. He must not take them away from their own land. He can only give his own land to his sons. Nobody may take any of my people away from the land that belongs to them.’

¹⁹ The man took me through the entrance beside the gate. We came to the holy rooms that belong to the priests. These rooms opened to the north. He showed me a place at the west end of these rooms.