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Two neighbors negotiate a field lease before elders using rows of harvest baskets to represent many or few crop years until Jubilee; the price rises or falls openly with the remaining harvests. Both clasp hands without oppression. No written numerals, hidden contract, land sold permanently, coercion, modern money, or visible deity.
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Leviticus 25:14-17

A fair price for remaining harvests

Sabbath Years and Jubilee · Leviticus 25

Story guide: Two neighbors negotiate a field lease before elders using rows of harvest baskets to represent many or few crop years until Jubilee; the price rises or falls openly with the remaining harvests. Both clasp hands without oppression. No written numerals, hidden contract, land sold permanently, coercion, modern money, or visible deity.

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14And if you sell something to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, no man shall oppress his brother.

15According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your fellow; according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.

16In proportion to the greater number of years you shall increase its purchase price, and in proportion to the fewer number of years you shall reduce its purchase price, because he is selling to you a number of harvests.

17And no man shall oppress his neighbor, but you shall fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

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