利未記 25
1 上主在西乃山訓示梅瑟說：」
And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 你告訴以色列子民說：幾時你們進入了我要賜給你們的地方，這地方將為上主守安息。
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
3 六年之內，你可播種田地；六年之內，你可修剪葡萄園，收穫其中的出產。
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 但到第七年，地應完全休息，是上主的安息年。你不可播種田地，也不可修剪葡萄園；
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 連你收穫後而自然生出的，你也不可收割；葡萄樹未加修剪而結的葡萄，你也不可採摘；是地完全休息的一年。
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto the land.
6 地在休息期而自然生出的，可供你們吃：即供給你、你的僕卑、傭工和與你同住的客人吃。
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
7 地自然生的，也可供給你的牲畜和你地中的走獸吃。喜年
And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 你應計算七個安息年，即七乘七年；七個安息年的時期，正是四十九年。
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 這年七月初十，你應吹號即在贖罪節日，你們應在全國內吹起號角，
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 祝聖第五十年，向全國居民宣布自由；為你們是一喜年，人各歸其祖業，人各反其家庭。
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
11 第五十年為你們是一喜年，不可播種；自然生出的，不可收穫；葡萄樹未加修剪而結的葡萄，不可採摘，
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.
12 為這是喜年，為你們應是聖年；你們只可吃田地自然生的。
For it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 在這喜年內，人各歸其祖業。
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 為此，如你賣給你的同胞產業，或由你的同胞購買，你們不可彼此欺壓；
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
15 你應照上次喜年後的年數由你同胞購買，他應照收穫的年數賣給你。
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
16 年數越多，你越應多付買價；年數越少，越應少付買價，因為他賣給你的事物產的數目。
According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 為此，你們不可彼此欺壓，但應敬畏你的天主，因為我上主是你們的天主。
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.
18 你們應遵行我的法令，遵守我的規定，一一依照執行，好叫你們平安地住在這地上，
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 地必供給出產，使你們吃飽，平安住在地上。
And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 若你們追問說：到第七年，我們若不能播種，又不能收集我們的出產，我們吃什麼﹖
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
21 在第六年上，我必決定祝福你們，叫地有三年的出產；
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 你們在第八年上播種時，還吃陳糧；直到第九年，直到收割新糧時，還有陳糧吃。[土地贖回法]
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store].
23 土地不可出賣而無收回權，因為地是我的，你們為我只是旅客或住客。
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
24 對你們所佔的各地，應承認地有贖回權。
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 如果你的兄弟貧窮，賣了一份家產，他的至親可來作代贖人，贖回他兄弟所賣的家產。
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
26 若沒有代贖人，幾時自己富足了，有了足夠的贖價，
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
27 當計算賣出後的年數，將差額還給買主，收回自己的家產。
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
28 如果他無法獲得足夠的贖價，他所賣的，應存於買主之手直到喜年；到了喜年，地應退還，賣主收回自己的家產。房屋贖回法
But if he be not able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
29 若人賣了一所在城牆內的住宅，自賣出後，一年內，他有贖回的權利；他贖回的權利為期一年。
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; [within] a full year may he redeem it.
30 如果滿了一年，他沒有贖回，在城牆內的房屋應歸買主與其後代，再無收回權；即使到了喜年，亦不應退還。
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
31 但房屋在沒有圍牆的村莊內，應算是田產，有贖回的權利；到了喜年應該退還。
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
32 至於肋未人得為產業的城市中的房屋，肋未人永享有贖回權。
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
33 如一肋未人在他得為產業的城市出賣的房屋，沒有贖回，在喜年仍可收回，因為肋未城中的房屋，是他們在以色列子民中所得的不動產。
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in [the year of] jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their possession among the children of Israel.
34 但是，他們城外四郊之地，不可變賣，因為是永屬他們的產業。對同胞不可取利
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession.
35 如果你的兄弟貧窮，無力向你還債，你應像待外方人一樣或旅客一樣扶持他，叫他能與你一起生活。
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
36 不應向他索取利息或重利，但應敬畏你的天主，讓他與你一起生活，如你的兄弟。
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
37 借給他銀錢，不可取利息；借給他糧食，不可取重利。
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
38 我上主是你們的天主，我領你們離開埃及地，將客納罕第賜給你們，是為做你們的天主。以色列人為奴的法律
I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God.
39 若你身旁的兄弟窮了，賣身給你不可迫他勞作如同奴隸一樣；
And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
40 他在你身旁，應像傭工或外僑，給你工作直到喜年。
[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
41 那時，他和他的子女應離開你，回本家，復歸期祖業；
And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
42 因為他是我的僕役，是我由埃及地領出來的；他們不能賣身，如同出賣奴隸。
For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 你不可虐待他，但應敬畏你的天主。
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
44 你需要的奴婢，應來自四周的民族，由他們中可購買奴婢。
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45 此外，可從同你們住在一起的外方人中，或從他們在你們境內所生的後代子孫中，購買奴婢。這些奴婢可成為你們的產業，
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
46 可將他們留給你們的後代子孫，當作永久的產業，使他們勞作。至於你們的兄弟以色列子民，彼此既是兄弟，不可嚴加虐待。
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
47 若外方人，或寄居在你處的人乘了富翁，你的兄弟反而窮了，欠他的債，而賣身給寄居在你處的外方人，或外方人家中的後代；
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
48 賣身以後，仍享有贖回的權利；他的人一個兄弟可以贖他；
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
49 他的叔伯，或他叔伯的兒子可以贖他；他家中的任何至親骨肉都可以贖他；如他自己致富，亦可自贖。
Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
50 他應同購買自己的人，計算從賣身給他以後到喜年的年數；贖價應依照年數的多少，並按照傭工每日的工價決定；
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
51 如剩下的年數尚多，他應依照年數的多少，出一部份贖價來贖身。
If [there be] yet many years [behind], according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
52 如直到喜年剩下的年數不多，應這樣計算：依照年數的比例交付贖價。
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, [and] according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
53 買主對他應像每年雇的工人；不可當著你虐待那人。
[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
54 如果那人不能這樣贖身，到了喜年，他可與兒女自由離去。
And if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubile, [both] he, and his children with him.
55 因為以色列子民只對我是奴隸，他們是我的奴隸，是我領他們離開了埃及地：我，上主是你們的天主。
For unto me the children of Israel [are] servants; they [are] my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.
