Leviticus 25

1 And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Moses in the mount Sina, saying,

2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whensoever ye shall have entered into the land, which I give to you, then the land shall rest which I give to you, for its sabbaths to the Lord.

3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vine, and gather in its fruit.

4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.

But in the seventh year [shall be] a sabbath, it shall be a rest to the land, a sabbath to the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, and thou shalt not prune thy vine.

5 That which grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, neither gather the grapes of your vine undressed: for it is a year of rest to the land.

And thou shalt not gather the spontaneous produce of thy field, and thou shalt not gather fully the grapes of thy dedication: it shall be a year of rest to the land.

6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger that sojourns with you.

And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy man-servant, and for thy maid-servant, and thy hireling, and the stranger that abides with thee.

7 And for your cattle, and for the beast that are in your land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

And for thy cattle, and for the wild beats that are in thy land, shall every fruit of it be for food.

8 And you shall number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty and nine years.

And thou shalt reckon to thyself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they shall be to thee seven weeks of years, nine and forty years.

9 Then shall you cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall make a proclamation with the sound of a trumpet in all your land; on the day of atonement ye shall make a proclamation with a trumpet in all your land.

10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.

And ye shall sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and ye shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and ye shall go each to his family.

11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed.

This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fiftieth year: ye shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the land, neither shall ye gather its dedicated fruits.

12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, ye shall eat its fruits off the fields.

13 In the year of this jubilee you shall return every man to his possession.

In the year of the release [even] the jubilee of it, shall [each] one return to his possession.

14 And if you sell something to your neighbor, or buy something of your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another:

And if thou shouldest sell a possession to thy neighbour, or if thou shouldest buy of thy neighbour, let not a man oppress his neighbour.

15 According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor, and according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to you:

According to the number of years after the jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbour, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he sell to thee.

16 According to the multitude of years you shall increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years you shall diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits does he sell to you.

According as [there may be] a greater number of years he shall increase [the value of] his possession, and according as [there may be] a less number of years he shall lessen [the value of] his possession; for according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to thee.

17 You shall not therefore oppress one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

Let not a man oppress his neighbour, and thou shalt fear the Lord thy God: I am the Lord thy God.

18 Why you shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

And ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do ye observe them, and ye shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land.

19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

And the land shall yield her increase, and ye shall eat to fullness, and shall dwell securely in it.

20 And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

And if ye should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits?

21 Then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce its fruits for three years.

22 And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in you shall eat of the old store.

And ye shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the ninth year: until its fruit come, ye shall eat old fruits of the old.

23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.

24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

And in every land of your possession, ye shall allow ransoms for the land.

25 If your brother be waxen poor, and has sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

And if thy brother who is with thee be poor, and should have sold [part] of his possession, and his kinsman who is nigh to him come, then he shall redeem the possession which his brother has sold.

26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficient money, [even] his ransom;

27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession.

then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession.

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; within a full year may he redeem it.

And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then there shall be the ransom of it, until [the time] is fulfilled: its time of ransom shall be a full year.

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 established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations; and it shall not go out in the release.

31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them, shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release.

32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.

33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the children of Israel.

34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetual possession.

35 And if your brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with you; then you shall relieve him: yes, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you.

And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and he fail in resources with thee, thou shalt help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee.

36 Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you.

Thou shalt not receive from him interest, nor increase: and thou shalt fear thy God: I [am] the Lord: and thy brother shall live with thee.

37 You shall not give him your money on usury, nor lend him your victuals for increase.

Thou shalt not lend thy money to him at interest, and thou shalt not lend thy meat to him to be returned with increase.

38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

I [am] the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, so as to be your God.

39 And if your brother that dwells by you be waxen poor, and be sold to you; you shall not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

And if thy brother by thee be lowered, and be sold to thee, he shall not serve thee with the servitude of a slave.

40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you to the year of jubilee.

He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee till the year of release:

41 And then shall he depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.

42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as slaves.

Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such an one shall not be sold as a [common] servant.

43 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God.

Thou shalt not oppress him with labour, and shalt fear the Lord thy God.

44 Both your slaves, and your bondmaids, which you shall have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall you buy slaves and bondmaids.

And whatever number of men-servants and maid-servants thou shalt have, thou shalt purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round about thee.

45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these ye shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession.

46 And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your slaves for ever: but over your brothers the children of Israel, you shall not rule one over another with rigor.

And ye shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions for ever: but of your brethren the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labours.

47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him wax poor, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:

And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction;

48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brothers may redeem him:

after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his brethren shall redeem him.

49 Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

A brother of his father, or a son of his father's brother shall redeem him; or let one of his near kin of his tribe redeem him, and if he should be rich and redeem himself,

50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him to the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.

51 If there be yet many years behind, according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

And if any have a greater number of years [than enough], according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money.

52 And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom

53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight.

as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; thou shalt not oppress him with labour before thee.

54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release, he and his children with him.

55 For to 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 the children of Israel are my servants: they are my attendants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.