Leviticus 25

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

And the Lord spoke unto 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 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.

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

Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou 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 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.

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 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.

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 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;

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 beasts that are in thy land, shall all its products be [left] 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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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

For it is the jubilee; holy shall it be unto you: from the field shall ye eat the products thereof.

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

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

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 jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbor, according unto the number of harvest-years shall he 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 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.

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

And ye shall not overreach one the other; but thou shalt be afraid of thy 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,

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.

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 its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in safety therein.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 become poor, and sell away some of his possession: then may his nearest of kin come and redeem what his brother hath 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 he acquire the means, sufficient to be able to redeem it himself:

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 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.

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 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.

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 shall the time of redemption last till the end of the year of his sale; a full year shall his time of redemption last.

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 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.

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 shall have the right of redemption, and they shall become freed in the jubilee.

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

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.

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 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.

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

And a field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for a perpetual possession is it unto them.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Thy money shalt thou not give him 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 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.

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 become poor near thee, and be sold unto thee: thou shalt not compel him to work as a bond-servant.

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

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

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

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor; but thou shalt have fear of 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,

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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:

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

After he hath sold himself shall he have the right of redemption; 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 near of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he obtain the means, 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 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.

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, according to them shall he return the price of his redemption out of his purchase-money.

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

As a laborer hired from year to year shall he be with him; he shall not rule over him with rigor before thy 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 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.

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 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.