Oihanakahuna 25

1 OLELO mai la hoi o Iehova ia Mose ma ka mauna Sinai, i mai la,

Yahweh said to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain,

2 E olelo aku oe i na mamo a Iseraela, a e i aku ia lakou, Aia komo oukou i ka aina a'u e haawi aku nei ia oukou, alaila e malama ka aina i ka Sabati no Iehova.

“Tell the Israelis [that I, Yahweh, say this]: When you enter the land that I am about to give you, every seventh year you must honor me by [not planting any seeds. You will be] allowing the ground to rest.

3 I na makahiki eono e lulu hua ai oe ma kau mahinaai, a i na makahiki eono e paipai ai oe i kou malawaina, a e ohi hoi i kona hua.

For six years you are to plant seeds in your fields and prune your grapevines and harvest the crops.

4 Aka o ka hiku o ka makahiki, e lilo ia i Sabati e hoomaha ai no ka aina, i Sabati no Iehova; mai lulu hua oe ma kau mahinaai, aole hoi oe e paipai i kou malawaina,

But the seventh/next year you must [dedicate] to me, and allow your fields to rest. Do not plant seeds in your fields or prune your grapevines [during that year].

5 O ka mea ulu wale no kau ai, mai okioki oe ia, aole hoi e ohi i na hua waina o kou kumu waina paipai ole ia; he makahiki ia e hoomaha ai no ka aina.

Do not reap [the grain] that grows in your fields without having been planted, or harvest the grapes that grow [without the vines being pruned]; you must allow the land to rest for that one year.

6 A o ka Sabati o ka aina he ai na oukou, nau, a na kau kauwa, a na kau kaikamahine, a na kau kauwa hoolimalimaia, a na kou malihini e noho pu ana me oe,

But you are permitted to eat whatever crops grow by themselves during that year without having been planted. You and your male and female servants, and workers whom you have hired, and people who are living among you temporarily are permitted to eat it.

7 A na kau mau holoholona, me na holoholona ma kou aina, he ai kona hua a pau,

Also, [during that year] your livestock and the wild animals in your land are permitted to eat it.’

8 A e helu oe i na Sabati makahiki ehiku nou, i ehiku hiku mau makahiki, a o ka wa o na Sabati makahiki ehiku, he kanahakumamaiwa mau makahiki nou.

‘Also, after every 49 years has ended, you must do this: (On the tenth day of the seventh month/At the end of September) [of the next/50th year], blow trumpets throughout the country, to declare that it will be a day on which you request that I forgive you for the sins that you have committed.

9 Alaila e hookani ai oe i ka pu Iubile, i ka la umi o ka malama ahiku, i ka la kalahala, e hookani ai oukou i ka pu ma ko oukou aina a puni.

10 A e hoano oukou i ke kanalima o ka makahiki, a e hai aku i ke kuu wale ana a puni ka aina, i ka poe a pau e noho ana ilaila; e lilo ia i Iubile ia oukou, a e hoi oukou kela kanaka keia kanaka i kona aina iho, a e hoi oukou kela kanaka keia kanaka i kona ohana iho.

Set apart that year, and proclaim that throughout the country, it will be a year of restoring the land and freeing people: All the people [who sold their property] will receive back the property that they previously owned, and slaves must be (freed/allowed to return to [their property and] their families).

11 He Iubile auanei ia makahiki kanalima ia oukou. Mai lulu hua oukou, aole hoi e okioki i ka mea ulu wale ia makahiki, aole hoi e ohi i ko ke kumuwaina paipai ole ia.

That year will be a Year of Celebration; [during that year] do not plant anything, and do not harvest [in the usual way] the grain/wheat that grows without having been planted, or the grapes that grow without the vines being pruned.

12 No ka mea, he Iubile ia, e hoano auanei ia ia oukou; mailoko mai o ka mahinaai, e ai ai oukou i kona hua.

It will be a Year of Celebration, so eat [only] what grows in the fields (by itself/without any work being done to produce anything).

13 I ka makahiki o ua Iubile nei, e hoi ai oukou kela kanaka keia kanaka i kona aina iho.

‘In that Year of Celebration, everyone must return to their own property.

14 Ina e kuai lilo aku oe i kekahi mea i kou hoalauna, a ina kuai lilo mai oe i kekahi mea mai ka lima mai o kou hoalauna, mai noho oukou a hooluhi hewa kekahi i kekahi.

‘If you sell some of your land to a fellow Israeli or if you buy some land from one of them, you must treat that person fairly:

15 E like me ka helu o na makahiki mahope ae o ka Iubile, e kuai lilo mai me kou hoalauna, a e like me ka helu o na makahiki o na hua, a kuai lilo aku oia ia oe.

If you buy land, the price that you will pay will depend on the number of years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. If someone sells land to you, he will charge a price that is determined by the number of years until the next Year of Celebration.

16 Mamuli o ka nui o na makahiki e hoonui ai oe i ke kumu kuai o ia mea; a mamuli o ka uuku o na makahiki, e houuku ai i kona kumu kuai; no ka mea, ma ka helu o na makahiki hua, e kuai lilo aku ai oia ia oe.

If there will be many years before the next Year of Celebration, the price will be higher; if there will be only a few years until the next Year of Celebration, the price will be lower. [You could say that] what he is really selling you is the number of crops [which you can harvest before the next Year of Celebration].

17 Nolaila, mai hooluhihewa kekahi i kekahi, aka e weliweli oe i kou Akua: owau no Iehova ko oukou Akua.

Do not cheat each other; instead, revere me. I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who am commanding this].

18 No ka mea, e hana oukou ma ka'u kauoha, a e malama hoi i ko'u mau kanawai, a e hana ma ia mau mea; a e noho no oukou ma ka aina me ka maluhia.

‘Obey all my laws [DOU] carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country [DOU].

19 A e hoohua mai ka aina i kona mau hua, a e ai oukou a maona, a e noho maluhia oukou ilaila.

And crops will grow well on the land, and you will have plenty to eat.

20 A ina olelo oukou, He aha la ka kakou mea e ai ai, i ka hiku o ka makahiki? aia hoi, aole kakou e luluhua, aole hoi e houluulu i ko kakou mau hua;

But you may ask, “If we do not plant or harvest our crops during the seventh year, what will we have to eat?”

21 Alaila e kauoha ai au i ka'u hoomaikai ana mai una o oukou i ke ono o ka makahiki, a e hoohua mai ia i ka hua no na makahiki ekolu;

[My answer is that] I will bless you very much during the sixth/previous year, with the result that during that year there will be enough crops to provide food for you for three years!

22 A i ka walu o ka makahiki e lulu hua ai oukou, a e ai no i ka hua kahiko, a hiki i ka iwa o ka makahiki; a komo mai na hua ona, e ai no oukou i ka mea kahiko.

Then, after you plant seed during the eighth/next year [and wait for the crops to grow], you will eat the food grown in the sixth year, and continue to eat it until more food is harvested in the ninth year!

23 Aole e kuai lilo mau ia aku ka aina; no ka mea, no'u no ka aina, no ka mea hoi, he poe malihini oukou, e noho malihini ana me au nei.

‘You must not sell any of your land to belong to someone else permanently, because the land [is not yours, it]; is really mine, and you are only living on it temporarily and (farming/taking care of) it for me.

24 A ma ka aina a pau o oukou, e haawi aku oukou e kuai hou ia ka aina.

Throughout the country that you will possess, you must remember that if someone sells some of his land to you, he is permitted to buy it back from you [if he wants to].

25 Ina i ilihune ae kou hoahanau, a ua kuai lilo aku i kauwahi o kona aina, a hele mai kekahi o kona poe hoahanau, e kuai hou, alaila e kuai lilo mai oia i ka mea a kona hoahanau i kuai lilo aku.

‘So, if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells some of his property [to obtain some money], the person who is most closely related to him is permitted to come and buy that land for him.

26 A ina aole o ke kanaka mea nana e kuai lilo hou mai, a e hiki ia ia iho ke kuai lilo hou mai;

However, if a man has no one to buy the land for him, and he himself prospers again and saves enough money to buy that land back,

27 Alaila e helu oia i na makahiki o kona lilo ana i ke kuaiia, a hoihoi aku i ke koena i ke kanaka ia ia ka aina ana i kuai lilo aku ai; i hoi ai oia i kona aina iho.

he must calculate how many years there will be until the next Year of Celebration. Then he must pay to the man who bought the land the money that he would have earned by continuing to grow crops on that land for those years.

28 Aka ina e hiki ole ia ia ke hoihoi aku ia mea, alaila ka mea i kuai lilo aku e waiho no ia iloko o ka lima o ka mea kuai lilo mai ia mea, a hiki i ka makahiki Iubile; ae hemo ia i ka Iubile, a hoi oia i kona aina iho.

But if the original owner does not have any money to buy the land that he sold, it will continue to belong to the man who bought it, until the next Year of Celebration. In that year it must be returned to its original owner, and he will be able to live on it again.

29 A ina e kuai lilo aku kekahi kanaka i ka hale noho maloko o ke kulanakauhale paa i ka pa, alaila e hiki ia ia ke kuai lilo hou mai maloko o ia makahiki okoa, mahope iho o ke kuai lilo ana'ku. Ia makahiki a puni e pono ia ia ke kuai lilo hou mai.

‘If someone who lives in a city that has a wall around it sells a house there, during the next year he will be permitted to buy it from the man who bought it.

30 A ina i ole e kuai lilo mai ia iloko o ka wa e puni ai ka makahiki, alaila ka hale iloko o ke kulanakauhale paa i ka pa, e hoomau loa ia i ka mea nana i kuai lilo mai, i kona mau hanauna; aole ia e hemo i ka labile.

If he does not buy it during that year, it will belong permanently to the man who bought it and to his descendants. It must not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Celebration.

31 Aka o na hale ma na kauhale aole i puni i ka pa, e heluia lakou e like me na mahinaai o ka aina; e hiki no ia lakou ke kuai lilo hou ia mai, a e hemo no i ka lubile.

But houses that are in villages that do not have walls around them are considered to be as though they are in a field. So if someone sells one of those houses, he is permitted to buy it back at any time. And [if he does not buy it], it must be returned to him in the Year of Celebration.

32 Aka o na kulanakauhale o ka Levi a me na hale o lakou, e hiki no i na pua a Levi ke kuai lilo hou mai i kela manawa keia manawa,

‘If any descendants of Levi sell their houses in the towns in which they live, they are permitted to buy them back at any time.

33 Ina e kuai lilo mai kekahi i ko na pua a Levi, alaila ka hale i kuai lilo ia aku, a me ke kulanakauhale ona, e hemo no ia i ka lubile; no ka mea, o na hale o na kulanakauhale o ka poe pua a Levi, o ko lakou waiwai no ia iwaena o na mamo a Iseraela.

And because the houses in their towns are on land that [was given to them by] other Israelis, that land will become theirs again in the Year of Celebration [if they do not buy it back before then].

34 Aka o ka mahinaai e pili ana i ko lakou kulanakauhale, aole ia i kuai lilo ia'ku: no ka mea, o ko lakou waiwai mau no ia.

But the pastureland near their towns must not be sold. It must belong to the original owners permanently/forever.

35 A ina na lilo kou hoahanau i ilihune, a ua nawaliwali ae la kona lima, alaila e kokua oe ia ia; ina hoi he malihini, a he mea noho malihini, i ola pu ia me oe.

‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and is unable to buy what he needs [IDM], others of you must help him like you would help a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] temporarily.

36 Mai lawe oe i ka uku kuala ona, aole hoi i ka mahuahua ana: aka e weliweli oe i kou Akua, i hiki i kou hoahanau ke ola pu me oe.

[If you lend money to him], do not charge any kind of interest [DOU]. Instead, [show by what you do that you] revere me, your God, and help that man, in order that he will be able to continue to live among you.

37 Aole oe e haawi lilo ole ae i kau moni, no ka uku kuala, aole hoi e haawi i kau ai ia ia no ka hoonui ia.

If you lend him money, do not charge interest; and if you sell food to him, [charge him only what you paid for it]; do not get a profit from it.

38 Owau no o Iehova o ko oukou Akua, ka mea i lawe mai ia oukou mai ka aina mai o Aigupita, e haawi ia oukou i ka aina o Kanaana, i Akua au no oukou.

[Do not forget that] I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of Egypt to be your God and to give you the land of Canaan, [and I did not charge you for doing that].

39 A ina i ilihune ae kou hoahanau, e noho kokoke ana me oe, a kuai lilo ia'ku ia nou, aole oe e hoohana ia ia nou me he kauwa paa la:

‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not force him to work like a slave.

40 Aka me he paaua la, a, me he mea noho malihini la, e noho ai oia me oe, a e hookauwa oia nau a hiki i ka makahiki Iubile.

Treat him like you treat workers that you hire or like someone who is living on your land temporarily. But he must work for you [only] until the Year of Celebration.

41 Alaila e hele aku oia, mai ou aku la, oia pu me kana mau keiki me ia, a e hoi aku no i kana ohana, a i ka aina o kona mau makua.

During that year, you must free him, and he will go back to his family and to the property that his ancestors owned.

42 No ka mea, he mau kauwa na'u lakou, a'u i lawe mai nei mai ka aina mai o Aignpita; aole lakou e kuai lilo ia aku me he mau kauwa paa la.

[It is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I [freed from being slaves] in Egypt. So none of you should be sold to become slaves.

43 Aole oe e hoohaku maluna ona me ke oolea, aka e weliweli oe i kou Akua.

And do not treat the Israelis whom you buy cruelly; instead, revere me, your God.

44 O kau mau kauwa kaue paa, a me kau mau kauwa wahine paa, i lilo ia oe, no na lahuikanaka e puni ana ia oe lakou; no lakou mai e kuai oukou i mau kauwakane paa, a i mau kauwawahine paa.

‘If you want to have slaves, you are permitted to buy them from nearby countries.

45 A no na keiki a na malihini e noho malihini ana iwaena o oukou, no lakou e kuai ai oukou, a no ko lakou mau ohana me oukou, i loaa ia lakou ma ko oukou aina; a e lilo lakou i waiwai nau.

You are also permitted to buy some of the foreigners who are living among you, and members of their clans that were born in your country. Then you will own them.

46 A e lawe hoi oukou ia lakou i waiwai na ka oukou mau keiki mahope o oukou, e ili iho i waiwai ua lakou; aet lilo lakou i kauwa mau na oukou; aka, maluna o ko oukou mau hoahanau, na mamo a Iseraela, aole e hoohaku kekahi maluna o kekahi mo ke oolea.

They will be your slaves for the remaining years of your life, and after you die, it is permitted for your children to own them. But you must not act in brutal ways toward your fellow Israelis.

47 A ina e waiwai nui ae ka mea noho, a o ka malihini me oe, a e ilihune ae kou hoahanau e noho kokoke ana me ia, a kuai lilo aku oia ia ia iho i ka malihini, a i ka mea noho ma ou la, a i ka pua paha o ka ohana a ka malihini;

‘If a foreigner who is living among you [DOU] becomes rich, and if one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to that foreigner or to a member of his clan/family,

48 Mahope o kona kuai lilo ia'ku, e hiki ke kuai lilo hou ia mai. E hiki i kekahi o kona mau hoahanau ke kuai lilo hou mai.

it is permitted for someone to pay for him to be freed. It is permitted for one of his relatives to pay for him to be released:

49 E pono i ka hoahanau o kona makuakane, a me ke keiki a ka hoahanau o kona makuakane, ke kuai lilo hou mai, a e hiki i kekahi o kona io iho, no kona ohana iho, ke kuai lilo hou mai ia ia; a ina e hiki i kona lima iho, he pono no ke kuai hou mai oia ia ia iho.

An uncle or a cousin or another relative in his clan may pay for him to be released. Or, if he prospers [and gets enough money], he is permitted to pay for his own release.

50 A e kuka pu oia me ka mea nana ia i kuai lilo mai, mai ka makahiki mai i kuai lilo ia'ku ai oia ia ia, a hiki i ka makahiki Iubile, a o ke kumu kuai ona e hoolikeia ia me ka helu o na makahiki, e like me ka wa o ka paaua, pela no ia ia.

The man who wants to pay for his own release must count the number of years until the next Year of Celebration. The price he pays to the man who bought him will depend on the pay that would be given to a hired worker for that number of years.

51 Ina he nui ua makahiki i koe, e like me ia e haawi ai oia i ke kumu kuai, e kuai lilo hou mai, mailoko mai o ka moni i kuai lilo ia mai ai oia.

If there are a lot of years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay for his release a larger amount of the money.

52 A ina he uuku na makahiki i koe a hiki i ka makahiki lubile, alaila e helu pu me ia, a e like me na makahiki, e haawi hou ai oia ia ia i ke kumu kuai, e kuai lilo hou ia mai ai oia.

If there are only a few years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.

53 Me he paaua la i hoolimalimaia ma ka makahiki e noho ai oia me ia; aole nae e hoohaku maluna ona me ko oolea mamua o kou mau maka.

During the years that he is working for the man who bought him, the man who bought him must treat him like he would treat a hired worker, and all of you must make sure that his owner does not treat him cruelly.

54 A ina i ole e kuai lilo hou ia mai, ma ia mau mea, alaila e hele aku no ia i ka makahiki Iubile, oia pu me kana mau keiki me ia.

‘And even if a fellow Israeli who has sold himself to a rich man is not able to pay for himself to be freed by any of these ways, he and his children must be freed in the Year of Celebration,

55 No ka mea, ia'u nei, he poe kauwa na mamo a Iseraela: o ka'u mau kauwa lakou, a'u i lawe mai nei mai ka aina mai o Aigupita: owau no Iehova ko oukou Akua.

because [it is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from [being slaves in] Egypt.’”