Leviticus 25

1 Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

And YHWH speaks 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 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.

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

[For] six years you sow your field, and [for] six years you prune your vineyard, and have gathered its increase,

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.

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;

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.

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.

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 [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;

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

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

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 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,

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.

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;

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 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.

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.

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;

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 is holy to you; you eat its increase from the field;

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

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

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 when you sell anything to your fellow, or buy from the hand of your fellow, you do not oppress 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.

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;

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.

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;

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

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

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

And you have done My statutes, and you keep My judgments, and have done them, and you have dwelt on the land confidently,

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

and the land has given its fruit, and you have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.

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

And when you say, What do we eat in the seventh year, behold, do we not sow, nor gather 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 have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it has made the increase 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 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.

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 is not sold—to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for you [are] sojourners and settlers 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 you give 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.

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;

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

and when a man has no redeemer, and his own hand has attained [means], and he has found [it] as sufficient [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 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.

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 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.

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 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;

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

And a field, a outskirt of their cities, is not sold; for it [is] a continuous possession for them.

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 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;

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.

you take no usury or increase from him; and you have been afraid of your God; and your brother has lived with you;

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

you do not give your money to him in usury, and you do not give your food 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] 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.

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

And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you do not lay servile service on him;

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

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 have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold [with] the sale of a servant;

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

you do not rule over him with rigor, and you have been afraid of your 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 your manservant and your handmaid whom you have [are] from the nations who [are] around you; you buy manservant and handmaid 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.

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;

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 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.

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 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,

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

after he has been sold, there is a right of redemption for him; one of his brothers redeems 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 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.

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 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.

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 many years still [remain], he gives back his redemption [money] according to them, from the money of his purchase.

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 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;

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 worker, year by year, he is with him, and he does not rule him with rigor before your 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 is not redeemed in these [years], then he has gone 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 have brought out of the land of Egypt; I [am] your God YHWH.”