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25 If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him. 26 If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back, 27 he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land.

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25 “‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative(A) is to come and redeem(B) what they have sold. 26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper(C) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they are to determine the value for the years(D) since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.(E)

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