Leviticus 25

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

And Yhwh spake unto 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 unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Yhwh.

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 gather in the fruit 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 shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for Yhwh: thou shalt neither 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.

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto 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 shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

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

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

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 thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and 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 shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound 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 ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto 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;

A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

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

For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

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

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

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

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress 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;

According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

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;

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

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

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am Yhwh 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,

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

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

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

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

And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our 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 command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit 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 ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of 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 shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

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

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

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 be waxen poor, and hath 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.

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 the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able 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.

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto 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 he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

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 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.

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 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 jubile.

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 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 jubile.

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

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem 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 man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession 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 field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their 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;

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may 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 thou no usury of him, or increase: but 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 lend him thy victuals for increase.

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 Yhwh your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to 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 thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

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

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

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 then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

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

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt 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,

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

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;

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

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 ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

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 a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:

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

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may 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, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may 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.

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

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

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

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 remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

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

And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him 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 he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both 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 unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Yhwh your God.