Leviticus 25
1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, in Mount Sinai, saying,
And the LORD 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 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 gather in 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 shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto the LORD: 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 itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather: it shall be a year of solemn 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 shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant 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 the increase thereof 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 thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even 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 send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye send abroad the trumpet 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 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 the undressed vines.
12 for it [is] a Jubilee—it is holy to you; you eat its increase from the field;
For it is a 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 this year of 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 aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not wrong 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 crops 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 the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops 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 wrong one another; but thou shalt fear 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,
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 the 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 of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until her fruits come in, ye 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;
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; 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 sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which 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 a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxen rich and find sufficient 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; and he shall 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 get it back for himself, then that which he hath 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; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.
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 made sure in perpetuity 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 reckoned with 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;
Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, 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 one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the 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 his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: [as] a stranger and a sojourner shall 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 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 give 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, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, 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 be waxen poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make 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—
as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with 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.
then shall he go out from thee, 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,
And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have; of the nations 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 have begotten 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 make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take 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 stranger or sojourner with thee be waxen rich, and thy brother be waxen poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner with 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; 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.
or 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 waxen rich, 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 jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of an hired servant shall he 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, according unto them he shall give back 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 reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back 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 servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he 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 by these [means], then he shall go out in the year of jubile, 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 the LORD your God.
