Leviticus 25

1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in mount Sinai, saying,

And the Lord spoke to Moses in the mount Sina, saying,

2 'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, then hath the land kept a sabbath to Jehovah.

Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whensoever ye shall have entered into the land, which I give to you, then the land shall rest which I give to you, for its sabbaths to the Lord.

3 'Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vine, and gather in its fruit.

4 and in the seventh year a sabbath of rest is to the land, a sabbath to Jehovah; thy field thou dost not sow, and thy vineyard thou dost not prune;

But in the seventh year [shall be] a sabbath, it shall be a rest to the land, a sabbath to the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, and thou shalt not prune thy vine.

5 the spontaneous growth of thy harvest thou dost not reap, and the grapes of thy separated thing thou dost not gather, a year of rest it is to the land.

And thou shalt not gather the spontaneous produce of thy field, and thou shalt not gather fully the grapes of thy dedication: it shall be a year of rest to the land.

6 'And the sabbath of the land hath been to you for food, to thee, and to thy man-servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to thy settler, who are sojourning with thee;

And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy man-servant, and for thy maid-servant, and thy hireling, and the stranger that abides with thee.

7 and to thy cattle, and to the beast which [is] in thy land, is all thine increase for food.

And for thy cattle, and for the wild beats that are in thy land, shall every fruit of it be for food.

8 'And thou hast numbered to thee seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years have been to thee nine and forty years,

And thou shalt reckon to thyself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they shall be to thee seven weeks of years, nine and forty years.

9 and thou hast caused a trumpet of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month; in the day of the atonements ye do cause a trumpet to pass over through all your land;

In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall make a proclamation with the sound of a trumpet in all your land; on the day of atonement ye shall make a proclamation with a trumpet in all your land.

10 and ye have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and ye have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; a jubilee it is to you; and ye have turned back each unto his possession; yea, each unto his family ye do turn back.

And ye shall sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and ye shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and ye shall go each to his family.

11 'A jubilee it [is], the fiftieth year, a year it is to you; ye sow not, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;

This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fiftieth year: ye shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the land, neither shall ye gather its dedicated fruits.

12 for a jubilee it [is], holy it is to you; out of the field ye eat its increase;

For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, ye shall eat its fruits off the fields.

13 in the year of this jubilee ye turn back each unto his possession.

In the year of the release [even] the jubilee of it, shall [each] one return to his possession.

14 'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

And if thou shouldest sell a possession to thy neighbour, or if thou shouldest buy of thy neighbour, let not a man oppress his neighbour.

15 by the number of years after the jubilee thou dost buy from thy fellow; by the number of the years of increase he doth sell to thee;

According to the number of years after the jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbour, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he sell to thee.

16 according to the multitude of the years thou dost multiply its price, and according to the fewness of the years thou dost diminish its price; for a number of increases he is selling to thee;

According as [there may be] a greater number of years he shall increase [the value of] his possession, and according as [there may be] a less number of years he shall lessen [the value of] his possession; for according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to thee.

17 and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I [am] Jehovah your God.

Let not a man oppress his neighbour, and thou shalt fear the Lord thy God: I am the Lord thy God.

18 'And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,

And ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do ye observe them, and ye shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land.

19 and the land hath given its fruit, and ye have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.

And the land shall yield her increase, and ye shall eat to fullness, and shall dwell securely in it.

20 'And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather our increase?

And if ye should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits?

21 then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it hath made the increase for three years;

Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce its fruits for three years.

22 and ye have sown the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase, ye do eat the old.

And ye shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the ninth year: until its fruit come, ye shall eat old fruits of the old.

23 'And the land is not sold — to extinction, for the land [is] Mine, for sojourners and settlers [are] ye with Me;

And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.

24 and in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to the land.

And in every land of your possession, ye shall allow ransoms for the land.

25 'When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

And if thy brother who is with thee be poor, and should have sold [part] of his possession, and his kinsman who is nigh to him come, then he shall redeem the possession which his brother has sold.

26 and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient [for] its redemption,

And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficient money, [even] his ransom;

27 then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold [it], and he hath returned to his possession.

then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

28 'And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.

But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession.

29 'And when a man selleth a dwelling-house [in] a walled city, then hath his right of redemption been until the completion of a year from its selling; days — is his right of redemption;

And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then there shall be the ransom of it, until [the time] is fulfilled: its time of ransom shall be a full year.

30 and if it is not redeemed until the fulness to him of a perfect year, then hath the house which [is] in a walled city been established to extinction to the buyer of it, to his generations; it goeth not out in the jubilee;

And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations; and it shall not go out in the release.

31 and a house of the villages which have no wall round about, on the field of the country is reckoned; redemption is to it, and in the jubilee it goeth out.

But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them, shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release.

32 'As to cities of the Levites — houses of the cities of their possession — redemption age-during is to the Levites;

And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.

33 as to him who redeemeth from the Levites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession have 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.

And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the children of Israel.

34 And a field, a suburb of their cities, is not sold; for a possession age-during it [is] to them.

And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetual possession.

35 'And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and he fail in resources with thee, thou shalt help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee.

36 thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

Thou shalt not receive from him interest, nor increase: and thou shalt fear thy God: I [am] the Lord: and thy brother shall live with thee.

37 thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

Thou shalt not lend thy money to him at interest, and thou shalt not lend thy meat to him to be returned with increase.

38 I [am] Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, 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 Chanaan, so as to be your God.

39 'And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

And if thy brother by thee be lowered, and be sold to thee, he shall not serve thee with the servitude of a slave.

40 as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, —

He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee till the year of release:

41 then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.

and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.

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;

Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such an one shall not be sold as a [common] servant.

43 thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.

Thou shalt not oppress him with labour, and shalt fear the Lord thy God.

44 'And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast [are] of the nations who [are] round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,

And whatever number of men-servants and maid-servants thou shalt have, thou shalt purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round about thee.

45 and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who [are] with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;

And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these ye shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession.

46 and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy [for] a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

And ye shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions for ever: but of your brethren the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labours.

47 'And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth [riches], and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction;

48 after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth redeem him,

after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his brethren shall redeem him.

49 or his uncle, or a son of his uncle, doth redeem him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, doth redeem him, or — his own hand hath attained — then he hath been redeemed.

A brother of his father, or a son of his father's brother shall redeem him; or let one of his near kin of his tribe redeem him, and if he should be rich and redeem himself,

50 'And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.

then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.

51 'If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption [money], from the money of his purchase.

And if any have a greater number of years [than enough], according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money.

52 'And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he hath reckoned with him, according to his years he doth give back his redemption [money];

And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom

53 as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.

as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; thou shalt not oppress him with labour before thee.

54 'And if he is not redeemed in these [years], then he hath gone out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release, he and his children with him.

55 For to Me [are] the sons of Israel servants; My servants they [are], whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt; I, Jehovah, [am] your God.

For the children of Israel are my servants: they are my attendants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.