One who sells his field at a time that the Yovel is in force is not permitted to redeem [it] before two years, as it says: According to the crop-years shall he sell to you (Lev. 25:15). [If] it was a year of wind-blast, or yellowing, or [if it was] a Shemittah year, it is not included for him in the count. [If] he plowed it, or let it lie fallow, it is included for him in the count. R’ Elazar says: [If] he sold it to him before Rosh Hashanah, when it was full of produce, he may garner from it three crops in two years.

[If] he sold it to the first one for a maneh, and the first one [then] sold it to a second one for two hundred [zuz], he reckons only with the first one; as it says: To the man to whom he had sold it (Lev. 25:27). [If] he sold it to the first one for two hundred [zuz], and the first one sold it to the second one for a maneh, he reckons only with the latter; as it says: To the man — that is, to the man occupying it. He may not sell a distant [field] in order to redeem one nearby, [or] a poor one in order to redeem a good one. He may not borrow in order to redeem [it], nor may he redeem [it] by halves. But in the case of the Temple treasury, all of them are permitted. This is the stringency of the common [man] over the Temple.