Leviticus 25:25
Good News Translation
If any of you Israelites become poor and are forced to sell your land, your closest relative is to buy it back.

New Revised Standard Version
If anyone of your kin falls into difficulty and sells a piece of property, then the next of kin shall come and redeem what the relative has sold.

Contemporary English Version
If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back,

New American Bible
When one of your kindred is reduced to poverty and has to sell some property, that person’s closest relative, who has the duty to redeem it, shall come and redeem what the relative has sold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.

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If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.

Ruth 2:20 And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the same kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the dead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.

Ruth 3:2,9,12 This Booz, with whose maids thou wast joined in the field, is our near kinsman, and behold this night he winnoweth barley in the threshingfloor. . . .

Ruth 4:4-6 I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field. . . .

Jeremiah 32:7,8 Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall come to thee, saying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy right to buy it, being next akin. . . .

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

Hebrews 2:13,14 And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me. . . .

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new canticle, saying: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book and to open the seals thereof: because thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God, in thy blood, out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation:

Context
The Law of Redemption
24For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption. 25If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.26But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:…
Cross References
Leviticus 25:24
For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.

Leviticus 25:26
But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

Ruth 2:20
And Noemi answered her: Blessed be he of the Lord: because the same kindness which he shewed to the living, he hath kept also to the dead. And again she said: The man is our kinsman.

Ruth 4:3
They sat down, and he spoke to the kinsman: Noemi, who is returned from the country of Moab will sell a parcel of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.

Ruth 4:4
I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before all that sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take possession of it by the right of kindred: buy it, and possess it: but if it please thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is no near kinsman besides thee, who art first, and me, who am second. But he answered: I will buy the field.

Ruth 4:6
He answered: I yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege, which I profess I do willingly forego.

Jeremiah 32:7
Behold, Hanameel the son of Sellum thy cousin shall come to thee, saying: Buy thee my field, which is in Anathoth, for it is thy right to buy it, being next akin.

Leviticus 25:24
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