Redemption (Right)

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,

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.

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.

he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:

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

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.

The kinsman-redeemer replied, “I cannot redeem it myself, or I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I cannot redeem it.”

Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’

Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.

“Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’