If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other. The land transactions of the Jubilee cycle must be done without exploitation: the Jubilee principle that land returns means that every land sale is actually a sale of the remaining years' use. The prohibition on taking advantage communicates that the Jubilee's transparency — everyone knows the land will return — must produce fair dealing, not strategic exploitation. The seller who knows the buyer knows the land will return must price honestly; the buyer who knows the land will return must offer fairly.

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