Leviticus 25

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

And the Lord spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying:

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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 [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;

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

all that grows on its own shall provide food for your beasts and cattle.

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,

You shall also number for yourselves seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which together makes 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;

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 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 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 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;

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 is holy to you; you eat its increase from the field;

due to the sanctification of the Jubilee. But you shall eat them as they present themselves.

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

In the year of the Jubilee, all shall return to their possessions.

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

and he shall sell to you according to the computation of the 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;

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

Do not be willing to afflict your countrymen, but let each one fear his God. 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,

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

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 when you say, What do we eat in the seventh year, behold, do we not sow, nor gather 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 have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it has made the increase for three years;

I will give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce of 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 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 is not sold—to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for you [are] sojourners 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 you give a redemption for the land.

Therefore, every region of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption.

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

But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,

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.

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 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 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 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;

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 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.

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

The buildings of the Levites, which are in the cities, are always able to be redeemed.

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.

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

But let not their suburbs be sold, for it is an everlasting possession.

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;

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

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

You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.

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

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

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 have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold [with] the sale of a servant;

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

Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.

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,

Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,

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 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 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, 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 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,

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

after the sale, he is able to be redeemed. Whoever is willing among his brothers shall redeem him:

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.

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 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.

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

If there will have been many years which remain until the Jubilee, according to these shall he also repay the price.

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;

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

his wages being charged by what served before. He shall not afflict him violently in your sight.

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.

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 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 they are my servants, the sons of Israel, whom I led away from the land of Egypt.