Leviticus 25

1 And the Lord spoke unto Moses on 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 which I give unto you; then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.

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 fruit 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 there shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath [in honor] of the Lord: 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 groweth of its own accord of thy harvest shalt thou not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine shalt thou not gather: a year of rest shall it be unto 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 product of] the sabbath of the land shall be unto you for food, for thee, and for thy man-servant, and for thy maid-servant, and for thy hired laborer, and for thy stranger, that sojourn with thee;

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 thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all its products be [left] for food.

All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.

8 And thou shalt number unto thee seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and 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 And then shalt thou cause the sound of the cornet to be heard, in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month: on the day of atonement shall ye sound the cornet throughout all 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 fiftieth year, and proclaim freedom 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 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 jubilee shall this, the fiftieth year, be unto you: ye shall not sow, nor reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather in it the fruit of the 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; holy shall it be unto you: from the field shall ye eat the products thereof.

Because of the sanctification of the jubilee: but as they grow you shall presently eat them.

13 In this year of the jubilee shall ye 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 neighbor, or buy aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not overreach one the other;

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 after the jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbor, according unto the number of harvest-years shall he sell unto thee;

And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.

16 According to the multitude of years shalt thou increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years shalt thou diminish the price thereof; for a number of harvests doth he sell 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 overreach one the other; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God; for I am the Lord 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 my ordinances shall ye keep and do them; and then shall ye dwell in the land in safety.

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 your fill, and dwell in safety therein.

And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no mall’s invasion.

20 And if ye should say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we are not permitted to sow, and we cannot gather in our harvest:

But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

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

I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years:

22 And when ye sow in the eighth year, then shall ye eat yet of the old harvest; until the ninth year, until its harvest come in, shall ye eat of the old store.

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 a permanence [to the purchaser]; for the land is mine; for strangers and sojourners are ye 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 become poor, and sell away some of his possession: then may his nearest of kin come and redeem what his brother hath 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 none to redeem it, and he acquire the means, sufficient to be able to redeem it himself:

But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

27 Then let him reckon the years since his sale, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so shall he 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 But if his means do not suffice to enable him to restore it to him: then shall that which he hath sold remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of the jubilee; and it shall be freed in the jubilee, 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 a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city: then shall the time of redemption last till the end of the year of his sale; a full year shall his time of redemption last.

He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired:

30 And if it be not redeemed within the expiration of a full year: then shall the house which is in the walled city remain as a permanence to him that bought it throughout his generations; it shall not become freed 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 of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they shall have the right of redemption, and they shall become freed 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 And [respecting] the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, a perpetual right of redemption shall belong to the Levites.

The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed:

33 And if a man of the Levites redeem something: then shall the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, become freed 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 a field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for a perpetual possession is it unto them.

But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.

35 And if thy brother become poor, and fall in decay with thee: then shalt thou assist him, [yea] a stranger, or a sojourner, that he may live with 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 not take of him any usury or increase; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God: that thy brother may live with 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 the Lord your God, who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give unto you the land of Canaan, to be unto you a 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 become poor near thee, and be sold unto thee: thou shalt not compel him to work as a bond-servant.

If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants:

40 But as a hired laborer, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of the jubilee shall he serve with thee:

But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee,

41 And then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him; and he 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 my servants are they, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bond-men are sold.

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 rigor; but thou shalt have fear of thy God.

Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God.

44 But thy bond-man, and thy bond-woman that shall remain thine, shall be of the nations that are round about you; of them may ye buy bond-man and bond-woman.

Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you.

45 And also of the children of the strangers that sojourn with you, of them may ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land; and they shall remain to you as a 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 may transfer them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; you may hold them to service for ever; but over your brethren the children of Israel, one over the other, ye shall not rule with rigor.

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 wax rich near thee, and thy brother become poor near him, and he sell himself unto the sojourning stranger near thee, or to a descendant of a 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 he hath sold himself shall he have the right of redemption; 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 any that is near of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he obtain the means, 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 sold himself to him unto the year of the jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, as the time of a hired laborer shall he have been 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 be yet many years, according to them shall he return the price of his redemption out of his purchase-money.

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 the jubilee: then shall he reckon with him; according to his years shall he return the price of his redemption.

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 laborer hired from year to year shall he be with him; he shall not rule over him with rigor before thy 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 by [one of] these means: then shall he go out in the year of the jubilee, both 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 unto me are the children of Israel servants, my servants are they, whom I have brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Eternal your God.

For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.