Leviticus 25

1 The Lord told Moses on Mount Sinai,

And he spoke Yahweh to Moses on [the] mountain of Sinai saying.

2 “Tell the Israelites: When you enter the land that I'm giving you, the land itself must also observe a Sabbath rest in honor of the Lord.

Speak to [the] people of Israel and you will say to them if you will go into the land which I [am] about to give to you and it will cease the land a sabbath to Yahweh.

3 Six years you can cultivate your fields, take care of your vineyards, and harvest your crops.

Six years you will sow field your and six years you will prune vineyard your and you will gather produce its.

4 But the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land, a Sabbath in honor of the Lord. Don't plant your fields or care for your vineyards.

And in the year seventh a sabbath of sabbath observance it will belong to the land a sabbath to Yahweh field your not you will sow and vineyard your not you will prune.

5 Don't harvest what may have grown up in your fields, or collect the grapes from your vineyards that you haven't cared for. The land is to have a year of complete rest.

[the] self-sown grain of Harvest your not you will harvest and [the] grapes untrimmed vines your not you will gather grapes a year of sabbath observance it will belong to the land.

6 You can eat whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year. This applies to yourself, your male and female slaves, paid workers and foreigners who live with you,

And it will belong [the] sabbath of the land to you to food to you and to [male] slave your and to female slave your and to hired laborer your and to resident alien your who are sojourning with you.

7 and to your livestock and the wild animals living in your land. Whatever grows can be used for food.

And to livestock your and to the animal[s] which [is] in land your it will be all produce its to eat.

8 Count seven ‘sabbaths’ of years, in other words, seven times seven years, so that the seven sabbaths of years come to forty-nine years.

And you will count for yourself seven sabbaths of years seven years seven times and they will be to you [the] days of seven [the] sabbaths of years nine and forty year[s].

9 Then blow the trumpet all through the country on the tenth day of the seventh month, which is the Day of Atonement. Make sure this signal is heard throughout your whole country.

And you will cause to pass through a ram's horn of [the] sound of a loud blast in the month seventh on the ten of the month on [the] day of atonement you will cause to pass a ram's horn in all land your.

10 You are to dedicate the fiftieth year and announce freedom everywhere in the country for all who live there. This is to be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to reclaim your property and to be part of your family once more.

And you will set apart as holy [the] year of the fifty year and you will proclaim liberty in the land for all inhabitants its a jubilee it it will be to you and you will return each one to possession his and each one to clan his you will return.

11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you. Don't sow the land; don't harvest what may have grown up in your fields, or collect the grapes from your vineyards that you haven't cared for.

A jubilee it [the] year of the fifty year it will be to you not you will sow and not you will harvest self-sown grain its and not you will gather grapes untrimmed vines its.

12 It is a Jubilee and it is to be holy to you. You can eat whatever the land produces.

For [is] a jubilee it a holy thing it will be to you from the field you will eat produce its.

13 In this Jubilee Year, every one of you shall return to your own property.

In [the] year of the jubilee this you will return each one to possession his.

14 If you sell land to your neighbor, or buy land from him, don't exploit one another.

And if you will sell a thing sold to fellow citizen your or you will buy from [the] hand of fellow citizen your may not you maltreat each brother his.

15 When you buy from your neighbor work out how many years have passed since the last Jubilee, for he is to sell to you depending on how many years of harvest remain.

By [the] number of years after the jubilee you will buy from with fellow citizen your by [the] number of [the] years of produce he will sell [it] to you.

16 The more years that are left, the more you shall pay; the fewer years that are left, the less you shall pay, because he is actually selling you a specific number of harvests.

To [the] mouth of - [the] abundance of the years you will increase purchase price its and to [the] mouth of [the] being small of the years you will make small purchase price its for [the] number of produce he [is] selling to you.

17 Don't exploit one another, but have respect for your God, because I am the Lord your God.

And not you will maltreat anyone fellow citizen his and you will fear from God your for I [am] Yahweh God your.

18 Keep my rules and observe my regulations, so you can live in safety in the land.

And you will do statutes my and judgments my you will keep and you will do them and you will dwell on the land to security.

19 Then the land will produce good harvest, so you will have plenty to eat and live in safety there.

And it will give the land fruit its and you will eat to abundance and you will dwell to security on it.

20 But if you ask, ‘What are we going to in the seventh year if we do not sow or harvest our crops?’

And if you will say what? will we eat in the year seventh here! not we will sow and not we will gather produce our.

21 I will bless you in the sixth year, so that the land will produce a crop that will be enough for three years.

And I will command blessing my for you in the year sixth and it will make the produce for [the] three the years.

22 As you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from that harvest, which will last until your harvest in the ninth year.

And you will sow the year eighth and you will eat from the produce old harvest until - the year ninth until comes produce its you will eat old harvest.

23 Land must not be permanently sold, because it really belongs to me. To me you are only foreigners and travelers passing through.

And the land not it will be sold to perpetuity for [belongs] to me the land for [are] sojourners and resident aliens you with me.

24 So whatever land you buy to own, you must make arrangements so it can be returned to its original owner.

And in all [the] land of possession your [the] right of redemption you will give of the land.

25 If one of your people becomes poor and sells you some of their land, their close family can come and buy back what they have sold.

If he will become impoverished brother your and he will sell some of possession his and he will come kinsman-redeemer his near to him and he will redeem [the] thing sold of brother his.

26 However, if they don't have anyone who can buy it back, but in the meantime their financial situation improves and they have enough to buy back the land,

And anyone if not he will belong to him a kinsman-redeemer and it will reach hand his and he will find according to [the] sufficiency of redemption its.

27 they will work how many years it has been since the sale, and pay back the balance to the person who bought it, and go back to their property

And he will calculate [the] years of sale its and he will repay the surplus to the person whom he sold [it] to him and he will return to possession his.

28 If they can't raise enough to pay the person back for the land, the buyer will remain its owner until the Jubilee Year. But in the Jubilee the land will be returned so that the original owner can so that they can go back to their property.

And if not it has found hand his sufficiency to repay to him and it will be thing sold his in [the] hand of the [one who] bought it until [the] year of the jubilee and it will go out in the jubilee and he will return to possession his.

29 If someone sells a house located in a walled town, they have the right to buy it back for a full year after selling it. It can be bought back any time during that year.

And anyone if he will sell a house of dwelling of a city of a wall and it will be right of redemption its until is finished [the] year of sale its days it will be right of redemption its.

30 If it isn't bought back be the end of a full year, then ownership of the house in the walled town is permanently transferred to the one who bought it and their descendants. It won't be returned in the Jubilee.

And if not it will be redeemed until is completed to it a year complete and it will stand the house which [is] in the city which ([belongs] to it *Q(K)*) a wall to perpetuity to the [one who] bought it to generations his not it will go out in the jubilee.

31 But houses in villages that don't have walls around them are to be treated as located in the fields. They can be bought back, and will be returned in the Jubilee.

And [the] houses of the villages which not [belongs] to them a wall round about to [the] field of the land it will be reckoned a right of redemption it will belong to it and in the jubilee it will go out.

32 However, the Levites always have the right to buy back their houses in the towns that belong to them.

And [the] cities of the Levites [the] houses of [the] cities of possession their a right of redemption of perpetuity it will belong to the Levites.

33 Whatever the Levites own can be bought back, even houses sold in their towns, and must be returned in the Jubilee. That's because the houses in the towns of the Levites are what they were given to own as their share among the Israelites.

And that he will redeem one of the Levites and it will go out [the] sale of [the] house and [the] city of possession his in the jubilee for [the] houses of [the] cities of the Levites it [is] possession their in among [the] people of Israel.

34 However, the fields surrounding their towns must not be sold because they belong to the Levites permanently.

And [the] field of [the] pasture land of cities their not it will be sold for [is] a possession of perpetuity it to them.

35 If any of your people become poor and can't survive, you must help them in the same way you would help a foreigner or a stranger, so that they can go on living in your neighborhood.

And if he will become impoverished brother your and it will slip hand his with you and you will strengthen him a sojourner and a resident alien and he will live with you.

36 Don't make them pay you any interest or demand more than they borrowed, but respect your God so that they can remain living in your area.

May not you take from with him interest and profit and you will fear from God your and he will live brother your with you.

37 Don't lend them silver with interest or sell them food at an inflated price.

Silver your not you will give to him for interest and for profit not you will give food your.

38 Remember, I am the Lord your God who led you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

I [am] Yahweh God your who I brought out you from [the] land of Egypt to give to you [the] land of Canaan to become for you God.

39 If any of your people become poor and have to sell themselves to work for you, don't force them to work as a slave.

And if he will become impoverished brother your with you and he will sell himself to you not you will labor by him [the] labor of a slave.

40 Have them live with you like a paid worker who is staying with you for a while. They are to work for you until the Jubilee Year.

Like a hired laborer like a resident alien he will be with you until [the] year of the jubilee he will serve with you.

41 Then they and their children must be freed, and they can go back to their family and to their family's property.

And he will go out from with you he and sons his with him and he will return to clan his and to [the] possession of ancestors his he will return.

42 Israelites are not to be sold as slaves because they belong to me as my slaves—I led them out of Egypt.

For [are] servants my they whom I brought out them from [the] land of Egypt not they will be sold a sale of a slave.

43 Don't treat them with brutality. Have respect for your God.

Not you will rule over him with harshness and you will fear from God your.

44 Buy your male and female slaves from the surrounding nations.

And [male] slave your and female slave your who they will belong to you from with the nations which [are] around you from them you will buy a [male] slave and a female slave.

45 You can also buy them from foreigners who have come to live among you, or from their descendants born in your land. You can treat them as your property.

And also some of [the] children of the resident aliens who sojourn with you from them you will buy and from clan their which [is] with you which they have fathered in land your and they will belong to you to a possession.

46 You can pass them on to your children to inherit as property after you die. You can make them slaves for life, but you must not brutally treat any of your own people, the Israelites, as a slave.

And you will give as an inheritance them to sons your after you to take possession of a possession for ever by them you will labor and over brothers your [the] people of Israel each over brother his not you will rule over him with harshness.

47 If a foreigner among you becomes successful, and one of your people living nearby becomes poor and sells themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's family,

And if it will reach [the] hand of a sojourner and a resident alien with you and he will become impoverished brother your with him and he will sell himself to a sojourner a resident alien with you or to a member of [the] clan of a sojourner.

48 they still have the right of being bought back after the sale. A member of their family can buy them back—

After he has sold himself a right of redemption it will belong to him one of brothers his he will redeem him.

49 an uncle or cousin or any close relative from their family can buy them back. If they become successful, they can buy themselves back.

Or uncle his or [the] son of uncle his he will redeem him or any of [the] relative[s] of flesh his from clan his he will redeem him or it has reached hand his and he will redeem himself.

50 The person concerned and their buyer will work out the time from the year of the sale up to the Jubilee Year. The price will depend on the number of years, calculated using the daily rate for a paid worker.

And he will calculate with [the] [one who] bought him from [the] year he sold himself to him until [the] year of the jubilee and it will be [the] silver of sale his by [the] number of years according to [the] days of a hired laborer he will be with him.

51 If there are many years left, they must pay a larger percentage of the purchase price.

If still many in the years to mouth their he will repay redemption his some of [the] silver of purchase his.

52 If there are only a few years remaining before the Jubilee Year, then they only have to pay a percentage depending on the number of years still left.

And if few it remains in the years until [the] year of the jubilee and he will calculate for himself according to [the] mouth of years his he will repay redemption his.

53 They are to live with their foreign owner just like a paid worker, hired from year to year, but see to it that the owner doesn't treat him brutally.

Like a hired laborer of a year in a year he will be with him not he will rule over him with harshness to eyes your.

54 If they are not bought back in any of the ways described, they and their children shall be freed in the Jubilee Year.

And if not he will be redeemed in these [ways] and he will go out in [the] year of the jubilee he and sons his with him.

55 For the Israelites belong to me as my slaves. They are my slaves—I led them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

For of me [the] people of Israel [are] servants [are] servants my they whom I brought out them from [the] land of Egypt I [am] Yahweh God your.