Leviticus 25

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

And the Lord spoke to Moses in 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 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 [For] six years you sow your field, and [for] six years you prune your vineyard, and have gathered its increase,

Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof:

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 to the land, of the resting of the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy 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 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 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 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 your livestock, and for the beast which [is] in your land, is all its increase for [them] to eat.

All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy 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,

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 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 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 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 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 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;

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

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

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 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 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 thee according to the computation of the fruits.

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

Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God: because 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,

Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfill them: that you may dwell 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 the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no mall’s invasion.

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

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

For which cause all the country of your possession shall be 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 thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will, he may 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 have no kinsman, and he himself can 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 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 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 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 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;

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

The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always 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 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, a outskirt of their cities, is not sold; for it [is] a continuous possession for them.

But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual 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 thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee,

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 not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

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

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

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 brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and 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;

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

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 as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee 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 afterwards he shall go out with his children, and shall return to his kindred and 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 they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen:

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

Afflict him not by might, but fear thy 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 bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about 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 of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land, these you shall have for 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 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 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 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 has been sold, there is a right of redemption for him; one of his brothers redeems him,

After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren 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 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 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.

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

If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them 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 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 hired worker, year by year, he is with him, and he does not rule him with rigor before your eyes.

His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy 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.

And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out 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 the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.