Leviticus 25

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, in Mount Sinai, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land has kept a Sabbath to YHWH.

Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

3 [For] six years you sow your field, and [for] six years you prune your vineyard, and have gathered its increase,

For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

4 and in the seventh year is a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH; you do not sow your field, and you do not prune your vineyard;

But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

5 you do not reap the spontaneous growth of your harvest, and you do not gather the grapes of your separated thing; it is a year of rest for the land.

That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

6 And the Sabbath [increase] of the land has been for you for food, to you, and to your manservant, and to your handmaid, and to your hired worker, and to your settler, who are sojourning with you;

And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

7 and for your livestock, and for the beast which [is] in your land, is all its increase for [them] to eat.

And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

8 And you have numbered seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven Sabbaths of years have been forty-nine years for you,

And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

9 and you have caused a horn of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; in the Day of Atonements you cause a horn to pass over through all your land;

Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land.

10 and you have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and you have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; it is a Jubilee for you; and you have turned back each to his possession; indeed, you return each to his family.

And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

11 It [is] a Jubilee, the fiftieth year, it is a year for you; you do not sow, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;

Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.

12 for it [is] a Jubilee—it is holy to you; you eat its increase from the field;

For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

13 you return each to his possession in this Year of the Jubilee.

In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.

14 And when you sell anything to your fellow, or buy from the hand of your fellow, you do not oppress one another;

And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

15 you buy from your fellow by the number of years after the Jubilee; he sells to you by the number of the years of increase;

Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

16 you multiply its price according to the multitude of the years, and you diminish its price according to the fewness of the years; for [it is] a number of increases [that] he is selling to you;

If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

17 and you do not oppress one another, and you have been afraid of your God; for I [am] your God YHWH.

And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

18 And you have done My statutes, and you keep My judgments, and have done them, and you have dwelt on the land confidently,

So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

19 and the land has given its fruit, and you have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.

And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

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

And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

21 Then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it has made the increase for three years;

Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

22 and you have sown [in] the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; you eat the old until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase.

And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

23 And the land is not sold—to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for you [are] sojourners and settlers with Me;

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

24 and in all the land of your possession you give a redemption for the land.

Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

25 When your brother becomes poor, and has sold his possession, then his redeemer who is near to him has come, and he has redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

26 and when a man has no redeemer, and his own hand has attained [means], and he has found [it] as sufficient [for] its redemption,

And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

27 then he has reckoned the years of its sale, and has given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold [it], and he has returned to his possession.

Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

28 And if his hand has not found sufficiency to give back to him, then his sold thing has been in the hand of him who buys it until the Year of Jubilee; and it has gone out in the Jubilee, and he has returned to his possession.

But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

29 And when a man sells a dwelling-house [in] a walled city, then his right of redemption has been until the completion of a year from its selling; his right of redemption is [during these] days;

And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

30 and if it is not redeemed to him until the fullness of a perfect year, then the house which [is] in a walled city has been established to extinction to him buying it, throughout his generations; it does not go out in the Jubilee.

And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

31 And a house of the villages which have no surrounding wall is reckoned on the field of the country; there is redemption for it, and it goes out in the Jubilee.

But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

32 As for cities of the Levites—houses of the cities of their possession—continuous redemption is for the Levites;

But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

33 as for him who redeems from the Levites, then the sale of a house (and [in] the city of his possession) has gone out in the Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel.

And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

34 And a field, a outskirt of their cities, is not sold; for it [is] a continuous possession for them.

But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

35 And when your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you have kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he has lived with you;

And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

36 you take no usury or increase from him; and you have been afraid of your God; and your brother has lived with you;

Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

37 you do not give your money to him in usury, and you do not give your food for increase.

Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

38 I [am] your God YHWH, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt to give the land of Canaan to you, to become your God.

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.

39 And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you do not lay servile service on him;

And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

40 he is as a hired worker [and] as a settler with you; he serves with you until the Year of the Jubilee—

But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

41 then he has gone out from you, he and his sons with him, and has turned back to his family; and he turns back to the possession of his fathers.

Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

42 For they [are] My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold [with] the sale of a servant;

For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

43 you do not rule over him with rigor, and you have been afraid of your God.

Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

44 And your manservant and your handmaid whom you have [are] from the nations who [are] around you; you buy manservant and handmaid from them,

But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

45 and also from the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, you buy from them, and from their families who [are] with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;

And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

46 and you have taken them for an inheritance for your sons after you, to inherit [for] a possession; you lay service on them for all time, but on your brothers, the sons of Israel, each with his brother—you do not rule over him with rigor.

And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

47 And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with you attains [riches], and your brother with him has become poor, and he has been sold to a sojourner, a settler with you, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

48 after he has been sold, there is a right of redemption for him; one of his brothers redeems him,

After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

49 or his uncle or a son of his uncle redeems him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, redeems him, or [if] his own hand has attained [means] then he has been redeemed.

Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.

50 And he has reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him until the Year of Jubilee, and the money of his sale has been by the number of years; it is with him as the days of a hired worker.

And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

51 If many years still [remain], he gives back his redemption [money] according to them, from the money of his purchase.

If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

52 And if few are left of the years until the Year of Jubilee, then he has reckoned with him [and] he gives back his redemption [money] according to his years;

And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

53 as a hired worker, year by year, he is with him, and he does not rule him with rigor before your eyes.

And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

54 And if he is not redeemed in these [years], then he has gone out in the Year of Jubilee, he and his sons with him.

And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

55 For the sons of Israel [are] servants to Me; they [are] My servants whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt; I [am] your God YHWH.”

For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.