Leviticus 25

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

And Jehovah spoke to Moses in 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 unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall celebrate 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 shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof,

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 rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune.

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 springeth up from the scattered seed of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be 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 bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle,

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

and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof 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 shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be unto thee 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 shalt thou cause the loud sound of the trumpet to go forth in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement shall ye cause the trumpet to go forth throughout 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 year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; a [year of] jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto 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.

a year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap its aftergrowth, nor gather [the fruit of] its 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 the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of the field shall ye eat its produce.

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

In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto 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 ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

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 since the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of the produce, he shall sell unto 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 greater number of the years, thou shalt increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt diminish the price of it; for it is the number of crops that he selleth unto 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 oppress one another; but thou shalt 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.

And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely.

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 and be satisfied, and dwell therein securely.

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

And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;

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, that it may bring forth produce for 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 in the eighth year, and ye shall eat of the old fruit until the ninth year; until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old.

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 for ever; 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 grow poor, and sell of his possession, then shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that which his brother 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 the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its redemption,

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 shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so return unto 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.

And if his hand have not found what sufficeth for him to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the purchaser, until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto 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 any one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he shall have the right of redemption up to the end of the year of the sale thereof; for a full year shall he 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.

But if it be not redeemed until a whole year is complete, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that 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 in villages that have no wall round about them shall be reckoned as 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.

But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

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 any one redeem from one of the Levites, then the house that was sold, in 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 children of Israel.

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

And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall 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 grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, [be he] stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.

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.

Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.

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

Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

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, 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 grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

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.

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

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 shall he depart 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 brought out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as slaves.

For they are my bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as [men] sell bondmen.

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

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt 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 bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have — of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.

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 children of them that dwell as sojourners with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with you, which they beget 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 leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour.

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 become wealthy beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion 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.

after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren 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.

Either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his next relations of his family may redeem him; or if his means be sufficient, 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 that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.

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 are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption [money] 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 unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his [remaining] years [of service] shall he give him back his redemption [money].

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

As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; [his master] shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes.

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 be not redeemed in this manner, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children 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 children of Israel are servants unto me; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.