Leviticus 25
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying:
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in 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 unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, then hath the land kept 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 dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,
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.
and in the seventh year a sabbath of rest is to the land, a sabbath to Jehovah; thy field thou dost not sow, and thy vineyard thou dost not prune;
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.
the spontaneous growth of thy harvest thou dost not reap, and the grapes of thy separated thing thou dost not gather, a year of rest it is to 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 hath been to you for food, to thee, and to thy man-servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to thy settler, who are sojourning with thee;
7 all that grows on its own shall provide food for your beasts and cattle.
and to thy cattle, and to the beast which [is] in thy land, is all thine increase 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 hast numbered to thee seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years have been to thee nine and forty 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.
and thou hast caused a trumpet of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month; in the day of the atonements ye do cause a trumpet to pass over through 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 have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and ye have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; a jubilee it is to you; and ye have turned back each unto his possession; yea, each unto his family ye do turn back.
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,
'A jubilee it [is], the fiftieth year, a year it is to you; ye sow not, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;
12 due to the sanctification of the Jubilee. But you shall eat them as they present themselves.
for a jubilee it [is], holy it is to you; out of the field ye eat its increase;
13 In the year of the Jubilee, all shall return to their possessions.
in the year of this jubilee ye turn back each unto 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 when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;
15 and he shall sell to you according to the computation of the produce.
by the number of years after the jubilee thou dost buy from thy fellow; by the number of the years of increase he doth 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 dost multiply its price, and according to the fewness of the years thou dost diminish its price; for a number of increases he is selling 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 do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of 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,
'And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,
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 hath given its fruit, and ye have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on 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 when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather 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 have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it hath made the increase for 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 have sown the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase, ye do eat the old.
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 is not sold — to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for sojourners and settlers [are] ye 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 a redemption ye do give to 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.
'When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;
26 But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,
and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient [for] its redemption,
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 he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold [it], and he hath returned 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.
'And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned 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 when a man selleth a dwelling-house [in] a walled city, then hath his right of redemption been until the completion of a year from its selling; days — is his 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 is not redeemed until the fulness to him of a perfect year, then hath the house which [is] in a walled city been established to extinction to the buyer of it, to his generations; it goeth not 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.
and a house of the villages which have no wall round about, on the field of the country is reckoned; redemption is to it, and in the jubilee it goeth out.
32 The buildings of the Levites, which are in the cities, are always able to be redeemed.
'As to cities of the Levites — houses of the cities of their possession — redemption age-during is to the Levites;
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.
as to him who redeemeth from the Levites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession have gone 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 But let not their suburbs be sold, for it is an everlasting possession.
And a field, a suburb of their cities, is not sold; for a possession age-during it [is] to them.
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 when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;
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.
thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;
37 You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.
thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;
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 hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become 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 when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;
40 But he shall be like a hired hand or a settler; he shall work with you, until the year of the Jubilee.
as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, —
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 hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.
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 have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold [with] the sale of a servant;
43 Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.
thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.
44 Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,
'And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast [are] of the nations who [are] round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,
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,
and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who [are] with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a 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 have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy [for] a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.
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 when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth [riches], and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,
48 after the sale, he is able to be redeemed. Whoever is willing among his brothers shall redeem him:
after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth 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 a son of his uncle, doth redeem him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, doth redeem him, or — his own hand hath attained — then he hath been redeemed.
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 hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.
51 If there will have been many years which remain until the Jubilee, according to these shall he also repay the price.
'If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption [money], from the money of his purchase.
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 few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he hath reckoned with him, according to his years he doth give back his redemption [money];
53 his wages being charged by what served before. He shall not afflict him violently in your sight.
as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.
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 in these [years], then he hath gone 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 to Me [are] the sons of Israel servants; My servants they [are], whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt; I, Jehovah, [am] your God.
