Leviticus 25

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

The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

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 tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a 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,

You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in 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 solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune 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 grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. 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;

The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

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

For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase 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,

“‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even 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;

Then you shall sound the loud shofar on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the shofar 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.

You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to 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;

That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from 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 jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

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

“‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

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

“‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you 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 Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

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 length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

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

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your 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,

“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you 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.

The land shall yield its fruit, and you 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?

If you said, “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 on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear 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.

You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, 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 shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

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

In all the land of your possession you 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 your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has 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,

If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means 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 reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

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 isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

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;

“‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall 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.

If it isn’t 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 who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released 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 around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

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

“‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession 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.

The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released 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.

But the field of the pasture lands 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;

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

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 no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

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

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

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, 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;

“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

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

As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of 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.

Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, 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, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

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

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear 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,

“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

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 aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

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.

You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

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 an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member 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 he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers 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 who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown 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.

He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time 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 are yet many years, according to 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;

If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall 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 harshness over him 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.

If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: 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 to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.