Leviticus 25
1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:
2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall celebrate a sabbath to Jehovah.
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath to the Lord.
3 Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof,
Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof:
4 but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune.
But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which springeth up from the scattered seed of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the land.
What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes of the firstfruits as a vintage: for it is a year of rest to the land:
6 And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle,
But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee:
7 and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food.
All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.
8 And thou shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be unto thee forty-nine years.
Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years:
9 Then shalt thou cause the loud sound of the trumpet to go forth in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement shall ye cause the trumpet to go forth throughout your land.
And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; a [year of] jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family;
And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:
11 a year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap its aftergrowth, nor gather [the fruit of] its undressed vines.
Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines,
12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of the field shall ye eat its produce.
Because of the sanctification of the jubilee: but as they grow you shall presently eat them.
13 In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.
In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.
14 And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.
When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him; grieve not thy brother: but thou shalt buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.
15 According to the number of years since the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of the produce, he shall sell unto thee.
And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.
16 According to the greater number of the years, thou shalt increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt diminish the price of it; for it is the number of crops that he selleth unto thee.
The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.
17 And ye shall not oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am Jehovah your God.
Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God: because I am the Lord your God.
18 And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely.
Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfill them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,
19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat and be satisfied, and dwell therein securely.
And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no mall’s invasion.
20 And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;
But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?
21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years;
I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years:
22 and ye shall sow in the eighth year, and ye shall eat of the old fruit until the ninth year; until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old.
And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.
23 And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.
25 If thy brother grow poor, and sell of his possession, then shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that which his brother sold.
If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will, he may redeem what he had sold.
26 And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its redemption,
But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:
27 then shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so return unto his possession.
The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it: and the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.
28 And if his hand have not found what sufficeth for him to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the purchaser, until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.
29 And if any one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he shall have the right of redemption up to the end of the year of the sale thereof; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.
He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired:
30 But if it be not redeemed until a whole year is complete, 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 jubilee.
If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.
31 But the houses in villages that have no wall round about them shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields: if it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.
32 But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.
The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed:
33 And if any one redeem from one of the Levites, then the house that was sold, in 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 children of Israel.
If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.
34 And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.
35 And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, [be he] stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.
If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee,
36 Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.
Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
37 Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor exact of him any increase of fruits.
38 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your God.
39 And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants:
40 as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee.
But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee,
41 Then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
And afterwards he shall go out with his children, and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers,
42 For they are my bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as [men] sell bondmen.
For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen:
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt fear thy God.
Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God.
44 And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have — of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.
Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you.
45 Moreover of the children of them that dwell as sojourners with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your possession.
And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land, these you shall have for servants:
46 And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour.
And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.
47 And if a stranger or sojourner become wealthy beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion of the stranger's family,
If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:
48 after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.
After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:
49 Either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his next relations of his family may redeem him; or if his means be sufficient, he may redeem himself.
Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself,
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.
Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant,
51 If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption [money] out of the money that he was bought for;
If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.
52 and if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his [remaining] years [of service] shall he give him back his redemption [money].
If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years, and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years,
53 As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; [his master] shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes.
His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed in this manner, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.
55 For the children of Israel are servants unto me; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.
For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
