Commandment Profile:

-227) No selling land in Israel permanently
Application to gentiles:
Partly required, partly irrelevant
Mandated punishment for violation:
Enforced by Jewish courts
Brief description:
For Jewish owners of land in Israel not to sell their land permanently, but rather on the basis that it will be returned by the fiftieth year of the Jubilee cycle at the latest. This commandment only applies when the Jubilee cycle is in effect (see commandment +137 for more details), when a gentile may own land in Israel only by purchasing it, not by inheritance — and thus is obligated not to purchase land in Israel permanently, but rather to return that land in the Jubilee year — or sooner, if it is redeemed by its Jewish owners. This does not apply outside the land of Israel at all.
Category:
Biblical source(s) (Rambam): Lev. 25:23
Biblical source (Sefer HaChinuch): Lev. 25:23
Number in Sefer HaChinuch: 339
Sources explaining relevance to gentiles:

  • Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Arachin V’charamin 4:20
    Gentile-owned land in Israel reverts to Jewish owners in the Jubilee year.

  • Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Avodim 2:8
    Gentile must release his eved Ivri if redeemed according to the number of remaining years in the Jubilee cycle (and probably likewise the redemption of land).