16 If it is a long time before the next Year of Celebration, the price will be higher, because what is really being sold are the crops that the land can produce.
17 I am the Lord your God, so obey me and don't cheat anyone.
18-19 If you obey my laws and teachings, you will live safely in the land and enjoy its abundant crops.
20 Don't ever worry about what you will eat during the seventh year when you are forbidden to plant or harvest.
21 I will see to it that you harvest enough in the sixth year to last for three years.
22 In the eighth year you will live on what you harvested in the sixth year, but in the ninth year you will eat what you plant and harvest in the eighth year.
23 No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me—it isn't your land, and you only live there for a little while.