Leviticus 25

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

And Jehovah spoke to Moses at mount Sinai, saying,

2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land that I give you, then the land must be made to keep a Sabbath for Yahweh.

Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to Jehovah.

3 You must plant your field for six years, and for six years you must prune your vineyard and gather the produce.

Six years thou shall sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits of it,

4 But in the seventh year, a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land must be observed, a Sabbath for Yahweh. You must not plant your field or prune your vineyard.

but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thou shall neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

5 You must not conduct an organized harvest of whatever grows by itself, and you must not conduct an organized harvest of whatever grapes grow on your unpruned vines. This will be a year of solemn rest for the land.

That which grows of itself of thy harvest thou shall not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

6 Whatever the unworked land grows during the Sabbath year will be food for you. You, your male and female servants, your hired servants and the foreigners who live with you may gather food,

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, who sojourns with thee.

7 and your livestock and also wild animals may eat whatever the land produces.

And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, all the increase of it shall be for food.

8 You must count off seven Sabbaths of years, that is, seven times seven years, so that there will be seven Sabbaths of years, totaling forty-nine years.

And thou shall number seven sabbaths of years to thee, seven times seven years, and there shall be to thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

9 Then you must blow a loud trumpet everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you must blow a trumpet throughout all your land.

Then thou shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of atonement ye shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.

10 You must set apart the fiftieth year to Yahweh and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, in which property and slaves must be returned to their families.

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It shall be a jubilee to you, and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family.

11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you. You must not plant or conduct an organized harvest. Eat whatever grows by itself, and gather the grapes that grow on the unpruned vines.

That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines.

12 For it is a Jubilee, which will be holy for you. You must eat the produce that grows by itself out of the fields.

For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. Ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field.

13 You must return everyone to his own property in this year of Jubilee.

In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.

14 If you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any land from your neighbor, you must not cheat or wrong each other.

And if thou sell anything to thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong each other.

15 If you buy land from your neighbor, consider the number of years and crops that can be harvested until the next Jubilee. Your neighbor selling the land must consider that also.

According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shall buy of thy neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to thee.

16 A larger number of years until the next Jubilee will increase the value of land, and a smaller number of years until the next Jubilee will decrease the value, because the number of harvests the land will produce for the new owner is related to the number of years before the next Jubilee.

According to the multitude of the years thou shall increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of the years thou shall diminish the price of it, for the number of the crops he sells to thee.

17 You must not cheat or wrong one another; instead, you must honor your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

And ye shall not wrong each other, but thou shall fear thy God, for I am Jehovah your God.

18 Therefore you must obey my decrees, keep my laws, and carry them out. Then you will live in the land in safety.

Therefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

19 The land will yield its produce, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

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

20 You might say, “What will we eat during the seventh year? Look, we cannot plant or gather our produce.”

And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase,

21 I will command my blessing to come upon you in the sixth year, and it will produce harvest enough 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 You will plant in the eighth year and continue to eat from the previous years' produce and the stored food. Until the harvest of the ninth year comes in, you will be able to eat from the provisions stored in the previous years.

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old storage, until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old storage.

23 The land must not be sold to a new permanent owner, because the land is mine. You are all foreigners and temporary residents on my land.

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

24 You must observe the right of redemption for all the land that you acquire; you must allow the land to be bought back by the family from whom you bought it.

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

25 If your fellow Israelite became poor and for that reason sold some of his property, then his nearest relative may come and buy back the property that he sold to you.

If thy brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possession, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and shall redeem that which his brother has sold.

26 If a man has no relative to redeem his property, but if he has prospered and has the ability to redeem it,

And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to redeem it,

27 then he may calculate the years since the land was sold and repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it. Then he may return to his own property.

then let him reckon the years of the sale of it, and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

28 But if he is not able to get the land back for himself, then the land he has sold will remain in the ownership of the one who bought it until the year of Jubilee. At the year of Jubilee, the land will be returned to the man who sold it, and the original owner will return to his property.

But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then that which he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may buy it back within a whole year after it was sold. For a full year he will have the right of redemption.

And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

30 If the house is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will become the permanent property of the buyer and his descendants. It is not to be returned in the year of 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 who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not go out in the jubilee.

31 But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be considered as the field of the land. They may be redeemed, and they must be returned during the year of 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 jubilee.

32 However, the houses owned by the Levites in their cities may be redeemed at any time.

Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

33 If one of the Levites does not redeem a house he sold, then the house that was sold in the city where it is located must be returned in the year of Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property among the people of Israel.

And if a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

34 But the fields around their cities may not be sold because they are the permanent property of the Levites.

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

35 If your fellow countryman becomes poor, so that he can no longer provide for himself, then you must help him as you would help a foreigner or anyone else living as an outsider among you.

And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee as a stranger and a sojourner.

36 Do not charge him interest or try to profit from him in any way, but honor your God so that your brother may keep living with you.

Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

37 You must not give him a loan of money and charge interest, nor sell him your food to earn a profit.

Thou shall not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy food for profit.

38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, in order that I might give you the land of Canaan, and that I might be your God.

I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

39 If your fellow countryman has become poor and sells himself to you, you must not make him work like a slave.

And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not impose upon him servile labor.

40 Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like someone living temporarily with you. He will serve with you until the year of Jubilee.

He shall be with thee as a hired servant, and as a sojourner. He shall serve with thee to the year of jubilee.

41 Then he will go away from you, he and his children with him, and he will return to his own family and to his fathers' property.

Then he shall go out from thee, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers.

42 For they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as slaves.

For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen.

43 You must not rule over them harshly, but you must honor your God.

Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.

44 As for your male and female slaves, whom you can obtain from the nations who live around you, you may buy slaves from them.

And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shall have, from the nations that are round about you, ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids from them.

45 You may also buy slaves from the foreigners who are living among you, that is, from their families who are with you, children who have been born in your land. They may become your property.

Moreover of the sons of the strangers who sojourn among you, ye shall buy from them, and from their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession.

46 You may provide such slaves as an inheritance for your children after you, to hold as property, and make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your brothers among the people of Israel with harshness.

And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take your permanent bondmen from them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

47 If a foreigner or someone living temporarily with you has become wealthy, and if one of your fellow Israelites has become poor and sells himself to that foreigner, or to someone in a foreigner's family,

And if a stranger or sojourner with thee becomes rich, and thy brother becomes poor beside him, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family,

48 after your fellow Israelite has been bought, he may be bought back. Someone in his family may redeem him.

he may be redeemed after he is sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.

49 It might be the person's uncle, or his uncle's son, who redeems him, or anyone who is his close relative from his family. Or, if he has become prosperous, he may redeem himself.

Or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him. Or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.

50 He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the year of Jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.

And he shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee. And 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 there are still many years until the year of Jubilee, he must pay back as the price for his redemption an amount of money that is in proportion to the number of those years.

If there be 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 If there are only a few years to the year of Jubilee, then he must bargain with his purchaser to reflect the number of years left before the year of Jubilee, and he must pay for his redemption in keeping with the number of years.

And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him. He shall give back the price of his redemption according to his years.

53 He is to be treated like a man hired year by year. You must make sure he is not treated with harshness.

He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

54 If he is not redeemed by these means, then he must serve until the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his sons with him.

55 To me the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'”

For the sons of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.