Leviticus 25
1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying:
And the Lord spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying:
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
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.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof.
For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall care for your vineyard, and you shall gather its fruits.
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto the LORD; thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
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.
5 That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
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.
6 And the sabbath-produce 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 the settler by thy side that sojourn with thee;
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:
7 and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.
all that grows on its own shall provide food for your beasts and cattle.
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.
You shall also number for yourselves seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which together makes forty-nine years.
9 Then shalt thou make proclamation with the blast of the horn on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye make proclamation with the horn throughout all your land.
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.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
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,
11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you; ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.
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,
12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
due to the sanctification of the Jubilee. But you shall eat them as they present themselves.
13 In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.
In the year of the Jubilee, all shall return to their possessions.
14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.
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,
15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.
and he shall sell to you according to the computation of the produce.
16 According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of crops doth he sell unto thee.
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.
17 And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD your God.
Do not be willing to afflict your countrymen, but let each one fear his God. For I am the Lord your God.
18 Wherefore ye shall do My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
Accomplish my precepts, and observe my judgments, and complete them, so that you may be able to live in the land without any fear,
19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat until ye have enough, and dwell therein in safety.
and so that the soil may produce its fruits for you, from which you may eat, even to fullness, dreading violence by no one.
20 And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase';
But if you will say: What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and do not gather our produce?
21 then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for the three years.
I will give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce of three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old store.
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.
23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.
Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
Therefore, every region of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption.
25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.
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.
26 And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient means to redeem it;
But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,
27 then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.
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.
28 But if he have not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
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.
29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.
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.
30 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 that bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee.
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.
31 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.
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.
32 But as for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.
The buildings of the Levites, which are in the cities, are always able to be redeemed.
33 And if a man purchase 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 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.
34 But the fields of the open land about their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.
But let not their suburbs be sold, for it is an everlasting possession.
35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and his means fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a settler shall he live with thee.
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,
36 Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
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.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.
You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.
38 I am the LORD 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 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.
39 And if thy brother be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant.
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.
40 As a hired servant, and as a settler, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee.
But he shall be like a hired hand or a settler; he shall work with you, until the year of the Jubilee.
41 Then shall he go out 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 after that, he shall depart with his children, and he shall return to his kindred, to the possession of his fathers.
42 For they are My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen.
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.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.
44 And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou mayest have: of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land; and they may be your possession.
and from the newcomers who sojourn with you, or who have been born from them in your land. These you shall have as servants,
46 And ye may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession: of them may ye take your bondmen for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigour.
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.
47 And if a stranger who is a settler with thee be waxen rich, and thy brother be waxen poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger who is a settler with thee, or to the offshoot of a stranger's family,
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,
48 after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him;
after the sale, he is able to be redeemed. Whoever is willing among his brothers shall redeem him:
49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be waxen rich, he may redeem himself.
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,
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.
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.
51 If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
If there will have been many years which remain until the Jubilee, according to these 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 years shall he give back the price of his redemption.
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;
53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
his wages being charged by what served before. He shall not afflict him violently in your sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed by any of these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.
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.
55 For unto Me the children of Israel are servants; they are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
For they are my servants, the sons of Israel, whom I led away from the land of Egypt.
