Leviticus 25:13-17

LEVITICUS—NOTE ON Leviticus 25:13 The price of property must be calculated in terms of how many years have passed since the jubilee, since it is not the property itself that is being sold but the amount of crops that can be harvested before the next jubilee. Since all the Israelites eventually return to their inherited land, the act of selling agricultural land essentially means leasing it (but see vv. Leviticus 25:29 for land that could be sold permanently). The instruction you shall not wrong one another (vv. Leviticus 25:14, Leviticus 25:17) relates to the economic oppression of the poor and needy (compare Leviticus 19:33).