Leviticus 25
1 Yahweh said to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain,
上主在西乃山訓示梅瑟說：」
2 “Tell the Israelis [that I, Yahweh, say this]: When you enter the land that I am about to give you, every seventh year you must honor me by [not planting any seeds. You will be] allowing the ground to rest.
你告訴以色列子民說：幾時你們進入了我要賜給你們的地方，這地方將為上主守安息。
3 For six years you are to plant seeds in your fields and prune your grapevines and harvest the crops.
六年之內，你可播種田地；六年之內，你可修剪葡萄園，收穫其中的出產。
4 But the seventh/next year you must [dedicate] to me, and allow your fields to rest. Do not plant seeds in your fields or prune your grapevines [during that year].
但到第七年，地應完全休息，是上主的安息年。你不可播種田地，也不可修剪葡萄園；
5 Do not reap [the grain] that grows in your fields without having been planted, or harvest the grapes that grow [without the vines being pruned]; you must allow the land to rest for that one year.
連你收穫後而自然生出的，你也不可收割；葡萄樹未加修剪而結的葡萄，你也不可採摘；是地完全休息的一年。
6 But you are permitted to eat whatever crops grow by themselves during that year without having been planted. You and your male and female servants, and workers whom you have hired, and people who are living among you temporarily are permitted to eat it.
地在休息期而自然生出的，可供你們吃：即供給你、你的僕卑、傭工和與你同住的客人吃。
7 Also, [during that year] your livestock and the wild animals in your land are permitted to eat it.’
地自然生的，也可供給你的牲畜和你地中的走獸吃。喜年
8 ‘Also, after every 49 years has ended, you must do this: (On the tenth day of the seventh month/At the end of September) [of the next/50th year], blow trumpets throughout the country, to declare that it will be a day on which you request that I forgive you for the sins that you have committed.
你應計算七個安息年，即七乘七年；七個安息年的時期，正是四十九年。
這年七月初十，你應吹號即在贖罪節日，你們應在全國內吹起號角，
10 Set apart that year, and proclaim that throughout the country, it will be a year of restoring the land and freeing people: All the people [who sold their property] will receive back the property that they previously owned, and slaves must be (freed/allowed to return to [their property and] their families).
祝聖第五十年，向全國居民宣布自由；為你們是一喜年，人各歸其祖業，人各反其家庭。
11 That year will be a Year of Celebration; [during that year] do not plant anything, and do not harvest [in the usual way] the grain/wheat that grows without having been planted, or the grapes that grow without the vines being pruned.
第五十年為你們是一喜年，不可播種；自然生出的，不可收穫；葡萄樹未加修剪而結的葡萄，不可採摘，
12 It will be a Year of Celebration, so eat [only] what grows in the fields (by itself/without any work being done to produce anything).
為這是喜年，為你們應是聖年；你們只可吃田地自然生的。
13 ‘In that Year of Celebration, everyone must return to their own property.
在這喜年內，人各歸其祖業。
14 ‘If you sell some of your land to a fellow Israeli or if you buy some land from one of them, you must treat that person fairly:
為此，如你賣給你的同胞產業，或由你的同胞購買，你們不可彼此欺壓；
15 If you buy land, the price that you will pay will depend on the number of years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. If someone sells land to you, he will charge a price that is determined by the number of years until the next Year of Celebration.
你應照上次喜年後的年數由你同胞購買，他應照收穫的年數賣給你。
16 If there will be many years before the next Year of Celebration, the price will be higher; if there will be only a few years until the next Year of Celebration, the price will be lower. [You could say that] what he is really selling you is the number of crops [which you can harvest before the next Year of Celebration].
年數越多，你越應多付買價；年數越少，越應少付買價，因為他賣給你的事物產的數目。
17 Do not cheat each other; instead, revere me. I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who am commanding this].
為此，你們不可彼此欺壓，但應敬畏你的天主，因為我上主是你們的天主。
18 ‘Obey all my laws [DOU] carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country [DOU].
你們應遵行我的法令，遵守我的規定，一一依照執行，好叫你們平安地住在這地上，
19 And crops will grow well on the land, and you will have plenty to eat.
地必供給出產，使你們吃飽，平安住在地上。
20 But you may ask, “If we do not plant or harvest our crops during the seventh year, what will we have to eat?”
若你們追問說：到第七年，我們若不能播種，又不能收集我們的出產，我們吃什麼﹖
21 [My answer is that] I will bless you very much during the sixth/previous year, with the result that during that year there will be enough crops to provide food for you for three years!
在第六年上，我必決定祝福你們，叫地有三年的出產；
22 Then, after you plant seed during the eighth/next year [and wait for the crops to grow], you will eat the food grown in the sixth year, and continue to eat it until more food is harvested in the ninth year!
你們在第八年上播種時，還吃陳糧；直到第九年，直到收割新糧時，還有陳糧吃。[土地贖回法]
23 ‘You must not sell any of your land to belong to someone else permanently, because the land [is not yours, it]; is really mine, and you are only living on it temporarily and (farming/taking care of) it for me.
土地不可出賣而無收回權，因為地是我的，你們為我只是旅客或住客。
24 Throughout the country that you will possess, you must remember that if someone sells some of his land to you, he is permitted to buy it back from you [if he wants to].
對你們所佔的各地，應承認地有贖回權。
25 ‘So, if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells some of his property [to obtain some money], the person who is most closely related to him is permitted to come and buy that land for him.
如果你的兄弟貧窮，賣了一份家產，他的至親可來作代贖人，贖回他兄弟所賣的家產。
26 However, if a man has no one to buy the land for him, and he himself prospers again and saves enough money to buy that land back,
若沒有代贖人，幾時自己富足了，有了足夠的贖價，
27 he must calculate how many years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. Then he must pay to the man who bought the land the money that he would have earned by continuing to grow crops on that land for those years.
當計算賣出後的年數，將差額還給買主，收回自己的家產。
28 But if the original owner does not have any money to buy the land that he sold, it will continue to belong to the man who bought it, until the next Year of Celebration. In that year it must be returned to its original owner, and he will be able to live on it again.
如果他無法獲得足夠的贖價，他所賣的，應存於買主之手直到喜年；到了喜年，地應退還，賣主收回自己的家產。房屋贖回法
29 ‘If someone who lives in a city that has a wall around it sells a house there, during the next year he will be permitted to buy it from the man who bought it.
若人賣了一所在城牆內的住宅，自賣出後，一年內，他有贖回的權利；他贖回的權利為期一年。
30 If he does not buy it during that year, it will belong permanently to the man who bought it and to his descendants. It must not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Celebration.
如果滿了一年，他沒有贖回，在城牆內的房屋應歸買主與其後代，再無收回權；即使到了喜年，亦不應退還。
31 But houses that are in villages that do not have walls around them are considered to be as though they are in a field. So if someone sells one of those houses, he is permitted to buy it back at any time. And [if he does not buy it], it must be returned to him in the Year of Celebration.
但房屋在沒有圍牆的村莊內，應算是田產，有贖回的權利；到了喜年應該退還。
32 ‘If any descendants of Levi sell their houses in the towns in which they live, they are permitted to buy them back at any time.
至於肋未人得為產業的城市中的房屋，肋未人永享有贖回權。
33 And because the houses in their towns are on land that [was given to them by] other Israelis, that land will become theirs again in the Year of Celebration [if they do not buy it back before then].
如一肋未人在他得為產業的城市出賣的房屋，沒有贖回，在喜年仍可收回，因為肋未城中的房屋，是他們在以色列子民中所得的不動產。
34 But the pastureland near their towns must not be sold. It must belong to the original owners permanently/forever.
但是，他們城外四郊之地，不可變賣，因為是永屬他們的產業。對同胞不可取利
35 ‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and is unable to buy what he needs [IDM], others of you must help him like you would help a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] temporarily.
如果你的兄弟貧窮，無力向你還債，你應像待外方人一樣或旅客一樣扶持他，叫他能與你一起生活。
36 [If you lend money to him], do not charge any kind of interest [DOU]. Instead, [show by what you do that you] revere me, your God, and help that man, in order that he will be able to continue to live among you.
不應向他索取利息或重利，但應敬畏你的天主，讓他與你一起生活，如你的兄弟。
37 If you lend him money, do not charge interest; and if you sell food to him, [charge him only what you paid for it]; do not get a profit from it.
借給他銀錢，不可取利息；借給他糧食，不可取重利。
38 [Do not forget that] I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God and to give you the land of Canaan, [and I did not charge you for doing that].
我上主是你們的天主，我領你們離開埃及地，將客納罕第賜給你們，是為做你們的天主。以色列人為奴的法律
39 ‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not force him to work like a slave.
若你身旁的兄弟窮了，賣身給你不可迫他勞作如同奴隸一樣；
40 Treat him like you treat workers that you hire or like someone who is living on your land temporarily. But he must work for you [only] until the Year of Celebration.
他在你身旁，應像傭工或外僑，給你工作直到喜年。
41 During that year, you must free him, and he will go back to his family and to the property that his ancestors owned.
那時，他和他的子女應離開你，回本家，復歸期祖業；
42 [It is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I [freed from being slaves] in Egypt. So none of you should be sold to become slaves.
因為他是我的僕役，是我由埃及地領出來的；他們不能賣身，如同出賣奴隸。
43 And do not treat the Israelis whom you buy cruelly; instead, revere me, your God.
你不可虐待他，但應敬畏你的天主。
44 ‘If you want to have slaves, you are permitted to buy them from nearby countries.
你需要的奴婢，應來自四周的民族，由他們中可購買奴婢。
45 You are also permitted to buy some of the foreigners who are living among you, and members of their clans that were born in your country. Then you will own them.
此外，可從同你們住在一起的外方人中，或從他們在你們境內所生的後代子孫中，購買奴婢。這些奴婢可成為你們的產業，
46 They will be your slaves for the remaining years of your life, and after you die, it is permitted for your children to own them. But you must not act in brutal ways toward your fellow Israelis.
可將他們留給你們的後代子孫，當作永久的產業，使他們勞作。至於你們的兄弟以色列子民，彼此既是兄弟，不可嚴加虐待。
47 ‘If a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] becomes rich, and if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to that foreigner or to a member of his clan/family,
若外方人，或寄居在你處的人乘了富翁，你的兄弟反而窮了，欠他的債，而賣身給寄居在你處的外方人，或外方人家中的後代；
48 it is permitted for someone to pay for him to be freed. It is permitted for one of his relatives to pay for him to be released:
賣身以後，仍享有贖回的權利；他的人一個兄弟可以贖他；
49 An uncle or a cousin or another relative in his clan may pay for him to be released. Or, if he prospers [and gets enough money], he is permitted to pay for his own release.
他的叔伯，或他叔伯的兒子可以贖他；他家中的任何至親骨肉都可以贖他；如他自己致富，亦可自贖。
50 The man who wants to pay for his own release must count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration. The price he pays to the man who bought him will depend on the pay that would be given to a hired worker for that number of years.
他應同購買自己的人，計算從賣身給他以後到喜年的年數；贖價應依照年數的多少，並按照傭工每日的工價決定；
51 If there are a lot of years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay for his release a larger amount of the money.
如剩下的年數尚多，他應依照年數的多少，出一部份贖價來贖身。
52 If there are only a few years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.
如直到喜年剩下的年數不多，應這樣計算：依照年數的比例交付贖價。
53 During the years that he is working for the man who bought him, the man who bought him must treat him like he would treat a hired worker, and all of you must make sure that his owner does not treat him cruelly.
買主對他應像每年雇的工人；不可當著你虐待那人。
54 ‘And even if a fellow Israeli who has sold himself to a rich man is not able to pay for himself to be freed by any of these ways, he and his children must be freed in the Year of Celebration,
如果那人不能這樣贖身，到了喜年，他可與兒女自由離去。
55 because [it is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from [being slaves in] Egypt.’”
因為以色列子民只對我是奴隸，他們是我的奴隸，是我領他們離開了埃及地：我，上主是你們的天主。
