Leviticus 25
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying:
And Jehovah spoke to Moses at mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land which I will give to you, rest on the Sabbath of the Lord.
Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to Jehovah.
3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall care for your vineyard, and you shall gather its fruits.
Six years thou shall sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits of it,
4 But in the seventh year, there shall be a Sabbath of the land, a resting of the Lord. You shall not sow your field, and you shall not care for your vineyard.
but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thou shall neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 What the soil shall spontaneously produce, you shall not harvest. And you shall not gather the grapes of the first-fruits as a crop. For it is a year of rest for the land.
That which grows of itself of thy harvest thou shall not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
6 But these shall be yours for food, for you and for your men and women servants, and for your hired hands, and for the newcomers who sojourn with you:
And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourns with thee.
7 all that grows on its own shall provide food for your beasts and cattle.
And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, all the increase of it shall be for food.
8 You shall also number for yourselves seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which together makes forty-nine years.
And thou shall number seven sabbaths of years to thee, seven times seven years, and there shall be to thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
9 And you shall sound the trumpet in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, at the time of the atonement, throughout all your land.
Then thou shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of atonement ye shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
10 And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a remission for all the inhabitants of your land: for the same is the Jubilee. A man shall return to his possession, and each one shall go back to his original family,
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It shall be a jubilee to you, and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family.
11 for it is the Jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows in the field of its own accord, and you shall not gather the first-fruits of the crop,
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines.
12 due to the sanctification of the Jubilee. But you shall eat them as they present themselves.
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. Ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field.
13 In the year of the Jubilee, all shall return to their possessions.
In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.
14 When you will sell anything to your fellow citizen, or buy anything from him, do not cause your brother grief, but buy from him according to the number of years from the Jubilee,
And if thou sell anything to thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong each other.
15 and he shall sell to you according to the computation of the produce.
According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shall buy of thy neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to thee.
16 The more years that will remain after the Jubilee, the more the price shall increase, and the less the time is numbered, so much less shall the purchase price be. For he will sell to you the time for the produce.
According to the multitude of the years thou shall increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of the years thou shall diminish the price of it, for the number of the crops he sells to thee.
17 Do not be willing to afflict your countrymen, but let each one fear his God. For I am the Lord your God.
And ye shall not wrong each other, but thou shall fear thy God, for I am Jehovah your God.
18 Accomplish my precepts, and observe my judgments, and complete them, so that you may be able to live in the land without any fear,
Therefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 and so that the soil may produce its fruits for you, from which you may eat, even to fullness, dreading violence by no one.
And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in safety in it.
20 But if you will say: What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and do not gather our produce?
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase,
21 I will give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce of three years.
then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
22 And in the eighth year you shall sow, but you shall eat from the old produce, until the ninth year, until what is new matures, you shall eat what is old.
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old storage, until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old storage.
23 Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 Therefore, every region of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption.
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 If your brother, being in need, will have sold his little possession and his close relative is willing, he is able to redeem what he had sold.
If thy brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possession, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and shall redeem that which his brother has sold.
26 But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,
And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to redeem it,
27 the produce shall be calculated from that time when he sold it. And what is lacking, he shall repay to the buyer, and so he shall receive his possession.
then let him reckon the years of the sale of it, and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.
28 But if his hand will not have discovered a way to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the Jubilee. For in that year all that has been sold shall return to the owner, and to the original possessor.
But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then that which he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.
29 Whoever will have sold a house within the walls of a city shall have the freedom to redeem it, until one year has been completed.
And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
30 If he has not redeemed it, and the year will have turned full circle, the buyer and his posterity shall possess it, in perpetuity, and it is not able to be redeemed, even in the Jubilee.
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not go out in the jubilee.
31 But if the house is in a village, which has no walls, it shall be sold by the law of the fields. If it has not been redeemed beforehand, then in the Jubilee it shall return to the owner.
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
32 The buildings of the Levites, which are in the cities, are always able to be redeemed.
Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
33 If they have not been redeemed, then in the Jubilee they shall return to the owners, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possession among the sons of Israel.
And if a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.
34 But let not their suburbs be sold, for it is an everlasting possession.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
35 If your brother has become impoverished, or infirm of hand, and you take him in, like a newcomer or a sojourner, and he lives with you,
And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee as a stranger and a sojourner.
36 do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you.
Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
37 You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.
Thou shall not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy food for profit.
38 I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I might give to you the land of Canaan, and so that I may be your God.
I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39 If your brother, having been compelled by poverty, will have sold himself to you, you shall not oppress him with the servitude of indentured servants.
And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not impose upon him servile labor.
40 But he shall be like a hired hand or a settler; he shall work with you, until the year of the Jubilee.
He shall be with thee as a hired servant, and as a sojourner. He shall serve with thee to the year of jubilee.
41 And after that, he shall depart with his children, and he shall return to his kindred, to the possession of his fathers.
Then he shall go out from thee, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers.
42 For these are my servants, and I led them away from the land of Egypt; let them not be sold into the condition of servitude.
For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.
Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.
44 Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,
And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shall have, from the nations that are round about you, ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids from them.
45 and from the newcomers who sojourn with you, or who have been born from them in your land. These you shall have as servants,
Moreover of the sons of the strangers who sojourn among you, ye shall buy from them, and from their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession.
46 and, by the right of inheritance, you shall transmit them to your posterity, and you shall possess them forever. But do not oppress your brothers, the sons of Israel, by power.
And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take your permanent bondmen from them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.
47 If the hand of a newcomer or a sojourner will have grown strong among you, and your brother, having become impoverished, will have sold himself to him, or to any of his stock,
And if a stranger or sojourner with thee becomes rich, and thy brother becomes poor beside him, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family,
48 after the sale, he is able to be redeemed. Whoever is willing among his brothers shall redeem him:
he may be redeemed after he is sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.
49 either the paternal uncle, or the paternal uncle’s son, or his close relative, by blood or by affinity. But if he himself will be able also, he shall redeem himself,
Or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him. Or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.
50 considering only the years from the time of his selling until the year of the Jubilee, and calculating the money for which he was sold, according to the number of years and the accounting of a hired hand.
And he shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years. He shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
51 If there will have been many years which remain until the Jubilee, according to these shall he also repay the price.
If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
52 If few, he shall determine the accounting with him according to the number of years, and he shall repay to the buyer by what is left remaining of the years;
And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him. He shall give back the price of his redemption according to his years.
53 his wages being charged by what served before. He shall not afflict him violently in your sight.
He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
54 But if, by these means, he will not be able to be redeemed, then in the year of the Jubilee he shall depart with his children.
And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his sons with him.
55 For they are my servants, the sons of Israel, whom I led away from the land of Egypt.
For the sons of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.
