The jubilee chapter, an economic programme before it is anything else. Every seventh year the land keeps a sabbath; every fiftieth a horn sounds and everything resets — debts released, Israelites in bondage sent home, sold land returned. The premise is verse 23: the land is mine. You cannot sell what you do not own, so a sale is a lease priced by the harvests left. Mesopotamian kings proclaimed the same for a thousand years; the difference is a calendar nobody can lobby.