Leviticus 25

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

The LORD said to Moses in Mount Sinai,

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 tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath 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 you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;

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 there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

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.

What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for 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;

The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

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

For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase 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,

"'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine 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;

Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout 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.

You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return 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;

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

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

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

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

"'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

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

"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

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 you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

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 to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

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

You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am the LORD your 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,

"'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

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

The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell in it in safety.

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

If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Look, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

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

then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the 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.

You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

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

"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

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

In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption 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;

"'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that 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,

If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

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 let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

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 he isn't able to get it back for himself, then what 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 be released, and he shall return to his property.

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;

"'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

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;

If it isn't 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 be released in the Jubilee.

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 of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed; and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

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

"'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem forever.

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.

The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among 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.

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it 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;

"'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

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

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

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

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

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 forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and 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;

"'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

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

As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

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.

then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

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;

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

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

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your 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,

"'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

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;

Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

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.

You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

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,

"'If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family;

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 he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may 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.

or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may 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.

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; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.

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

If there are 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 '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];

If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

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

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

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.

If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, 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 to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.