利未記 25
1 上主在西乃山訓示梅瑟說：」
And Yahweh 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 sons of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them: —When ye enter into the land which, I, am giving you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Yahweh.
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, shalt thou sow thy field, and, six years, shalt thou prune thy vineyard, —and gather the increase 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—a sabbath of sacred rest, shall there be unto the land, a sabbath unto Yahweh: thy field, shalt thou not sow, and, thy vineyard, shalt thou not prune;
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 itself of thy harvest, shalt thou not reap; and the grapes of thine unpruned vines, shalt thou not cut off: a year of sacred rest, shall there be to 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。
So shall the sabbath of the land be unto you for food: unto thee, and unto thy servant and unto thy handmaid, —and unto thy hireling, and unto thy settlers that are sojourning 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 unto thy tame-beasts, and unto the wild-beasts that are in thy land, shall belong all the increase thereof for food.
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 count to thee seven weeks of years, seven years, seven times, —so shall the days of the seven weeks of years become to thee forty-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 a signal-horn to pass through in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month: on the Day of Propitiation, shall ye cause a horn to pass 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。
So shall ye hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim freedom throughout the land to all the dwellers thereof, —a jubilee, shall it be unto you, and ye shall return, every man unto his possession, and every man unto his family, shall ye return.
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 jubilee, shall that fiftieth year be unto you, —ye shall not sow, neither shall ye reap the self-grown corn thereof, nor cut off the grapes of the unpruned vines thereof.
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, a jubilee, it is, holy, shall it be unto you, —out of the field, shall ye eat her increase.
13 在這喜年內，人各歸其祖業。
In this same jubilee year, shall ye 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 when ye sell anything to thy neighbour, or buy aught at thy neighbour’s hand, do not overreach 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。
By the number of years after the jubilee, shalt thou buy of thy neighbour, —by the number of the years of increase, shall he 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 the years, shalt thou increase the price thereof, and, according to the fewness of the years, shalt thou diminish the price thereof, —because the sum of the increase, it is that he selleth 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。
So then ye shall not overreach one another; but thou shalt stand in awe of thy God, —for, I—Yahweh, am 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 my regulations, shall ye observe and do them, —so shall ye dwell upon the land with confidence;
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 to the full, —and shall dwell with confidence thereupon.
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 since ye may say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? Lo! we are not to sow, neither are we to gather our increase!
21 在第六年上，我必決定祝福你們，叫地有三年的出產；
Therefore will I command my blessing upon you, in the sixth year, —and it shall make the increase of 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 of old store, —until the ninth year until the coming in of the increase thereof, shall ye eat 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 moreover shall not be sold beyond recovery, for, mine, is the land, —for, sojourners and settlers, ye are 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, a right of redemption, shall ye give to 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。
When thy brother waxeth poor, and so selleth aught of his possession, then may his kinsman that is near unto him come in, and redeem that which was sold by his brother.
26 若沒有代贖人，幾時自己富足了，有了足夠的贖價，
And, when, any man, hath no kinsman, —but his own hand getteth enough, so that he findeth what is needed 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 shall he reckon the years since he sold it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it, —and shall return to 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 his hand have not found enough to get it back unto him, then shall that which he sold remain in the hand of him that bought it, until the year of the jubilee, —and shall go out in the jubilee, 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, when, any man, selleth a dwelling-house in a walled city, then shall his right of redemption remain until the completion of a year after he sold it, —for, [a year of] days, shall his right of redemption remain.
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。
But, if it be not redeemed before the end of a full year, then shall the house that is in the city that hath walls be confirmed, beyond recovery, to him who bought it, unto his generations, —it shall not go out in the jubilee.
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 as for the houses of villages which have no wall round about them, with the fields of land, shall it be reckoned, —a right of redemption, shall belong to it, and, in the jubilee, shall it go out.
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。
And as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, an age-abiding right of redemption, shall pertain unto the Levites.
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 one of the Levites should not redeem, then shall the sale of the house and the city of his possession go out in the jubilee; for, the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession, in the midst of the sons 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 pasture-land of their cities, shall not be sold, —for an age-abiding possession, it is unto them.
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, when thy brother waxeth poor, and his hand becometh feeble with thee, then shalt thou strengthen him, as a sojourner and a settler, so shall he 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。
Do not accept from him interest or profit, but stand thou in awe of thy God, —so shall thy brother live with thee.
37 借給他銀錢，不可取利息；借給他糧食，不可取重利。
Thy silver, shalt thou not give him on interest, —neither, for profit, shalt thou give him thy food.
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—Yahweh, am your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, —to give unto you the land of Canaan, to become 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 when thy brother waxeth poor with thee, and so selleth himself unto thee, thou shalt not bind him with the bondage of a bondman:
40 他在你身旁，應像傭工或外僑，給你工作直到喜年。
as a hired servant, as a settler, shall he remain with thee, —until the year of the jubilee, shall he serve with thee:
41 那時，他和他的子女應離開你，回本家，復歸期祖業；
then shall he go forth from thee, he and his sons with him, —and shall return unto his 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, my bondmen, they are, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt, —they shall not sell themselves with the sale of a bondman.
43 你不可虐待他，但應敬畏你的天主。
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour, —so shalt thou stand in awe of 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。
And as for thy bondman and thy bond-maid which thou shalt have, of the nations that are round about you—from them, may ye buy bondman and bond-maid.
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 also, of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you—of them, may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land, —so shall they become yours, as a 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 may take them as an inheritance for your sons after you to inherit as a possession, unto times age-abiding, of them, may ye take to be bondmen, —but, over your brethren the sons of Israel—a man over his brother, ye shall not rule, over him 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, when the hand of the sojourner and settler with thee getteth possessions, and thy brother with him, waxeth poor, —and so he selleth himself to the sojourner [who is] a settler with thee, or to one who hath taken root, of the family of the sojourner,
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 hath sold himself, a right of redemption, pertaineth to him, —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。
or, his uncle or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or, a near flesh-relation of his, of his family, may redeem him, or, his own hand may have gotten enough, and, so 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；
Then shall he reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he was sold to him, unto the year of the jubilee, —and the silver for which he was sold shall be by the number of years, according to the days of a hired servant, shall he 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 is yet a multitude of years, according to them, shall he return, as his redemption price, of the silver of him that bought him.
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。
Or, if [there is] but a small remainder of years, until the year of the jubilee, then shall he reckon to himself, according to the years thereof, shall he return his price of redemption.
53 買主對他應像每年雇的工人；不可當著你虐待那人。
As a servant hired year by year, shall he be with him, he shall not rule over him with rigour, before thine eyes.
54 如果那人不能這樣贖身，到了喜年，他可與兒女自由離去。
But if he be not redeemed in any of these ways, then shall he go out in the jubilee year, he, and his sons 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, are the sons of Israel, bondmen, my bondmen, they are, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I, Yahweh, am your God.
