Leviticus 25
1 LEUM GOD El kaskas nu sel Moses fin eol Sinai ac sap elan
Yahweh said to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain,
2 sang oakwuk inge nu sin mwet Israel. “Pacl se kowos utyak nu in facl se su LEUM GOD El ac sot nu suwos, kowos fah akfulatye LEUM GOD ke kowos tia yoki facl sac ke yac akitkosr nukewa.
“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 Kowos fah yukwi ima lowos, aknasnasye lah ke grape sunowos, ac kosrani fahko kac ke yac onkosr.
For six years you are to plant seeds in your fields and prune your grapevines and harvest the crops.
4 Tusruktu yac se akitkosr ac fah yac in na mongla se nu ke facl sac, sie yac su kisayang nu sin LEUM GOD. Nimet kowos yukwi ima lowos ku aknasnasye lah in grape sunowos an.
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 Kowos fah tia pacna kosrani wheat ma sifacna kapak, ac tia sifani fahko ke grape sunowos ma kowos tia aknasnasye ah. Yac in na mongla se lun acn nukewa in facl sac pa inge.
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 Acn uh finne tia imaiyuk ke pulan yac sacn, ac srakna ku in asot mwe mongo nowos ac nun mwet foko lowos, ac mwet kowos moli in orekma lowos, ac mwetsac su muta inmasrlowos,
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 oayapa kosro muna nutuwos, ac kosro lemnak su muta inimae. Ma nukewa ma kap ke facl sac fah ku in mongo.
Also, [during that year] your livestock and the wild animals in your land are permitted to eat it.’
8 “Oakla yac itkosr pacl itkosr, pa toeni orala yac angngaul eu.
‘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 Na in len se aksingoul ke malem se akitkosr, su Len in Eela Ma Koluk, kowos supwala sie mwet in ukya sie mwe ukuk ke el fahsr sasla fin acn sac nufon.
10 In ouiya se inge kowos fah srela yac se aklumngaul, ac sulkakin mu ac sie pacl in sukosok nu sin mwet nukewa su muta in fahl sac. Ke yac se inge acn nukewa su tuh kukakinyukla fah folokyang nu sin mwet su la acn inge meet, ku nu sin fwil natul, ac kutena mwet su tuh kukakinyukla in mwet kohs, fah folokla nu yurin sou lal.
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 Kowos fah tia yukwi ima lowos, ku telani fahko ma sifacna kapak, ku sifani fahko ke ima in grape lowos ma tia kifwiyukla.
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 Yac nufon sac ac fah mutal nu suwos; kowos fah mongo na ke ma sifacna kapak in ima lowos.
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 “Ke yac se inge acn nukewa ma kukakinyukla fah folokyang nu sin mwet la meet ah.
‘In that Year of Celebration, everyone must return to their own property.
14 Ke ma inge, kowos fin kukakin acn lowos nu sin mwet Israel wiowos, ku moul acn selos, nik kowos orek inkanek kutasrik.
‘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 Molin acn sacn ac fah oakwuk fal nu ke pisen yac ma acn sacn ac ku in oswe fahko meet liki Yac in Folokyang se tok ah.
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 Fin ac yac pus, molo an enenu in yohk, ac fin yac na pu, na molo an enenu in srik, mweyen ma ac kukakinyukla uh ac wiwi pisa ku lupan fahko ma ac tuku ke acn sac.
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 Nimet orek kutasrik nu sin mwet Israel wiowos, a kowos in akos LEUM GOD lowos.
Do not cheat each other; instead, revere me. I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who am commanding this].
18 “Akos ma sap ac ma oakwuk nukewa lun LEUM GOD, tuh kowos fah ku in muta in misla fin facl se inge.
‘Obey all my laws [DOU] carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country [DOU].
19 Facl se inge ac fah isus fahko, ac kowos fah mutana in mut ac wangin fosrnga lowos.
And crops will grow well on the land, and you will have plenty to eat.
20 “Tusruktu, sahp ac oasr mwet fah siyuk lah mea ac mongo ke yac se akitkosr, ke wangin ma ac yoki ac wangin fahko sifeyukyak.
But you may ask, “If we do not plant or harvest our crops during the seventh year, what will we have to eat?”
21 LEUM GOD El ac fah akinsewowoye acn uh ke yac se akonkosr, tuh ima lowos fah oswe mwe mongo ma ac fal nu ke yac tolu.
[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 Ke kowos yukwi ima lowos ke yac se akoalkosr, kowos ac srakna kang mwe mongo ma lula ke ma kowos sifani ke yac se akonkosr ah, su ac fal nu suwos in mongo kac nwe ke kowos kosrani ma kowos yukwi ke yac sacn.
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 “Acn lowos fah tiana kukakinyukla in tuh lun sie mwet nwe tok, mweyen tia ma lowos — ma lun God, ac kowos oana mwetsac su ma filfilyang in orekmakin acn uh.
‘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 “Ke pacl se kukakinyukla sie acn uh, enenu in akilenyuk lah oasr suwohs lun mwet se ma la acn sac meet in sifilpa molela.
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 Fin sie mwet Israel sukasrupla tuh pwanang elan kukakunla acn lal uh, ac enenu in mwet se ma fototo oemeet nu sel in sou lal pa in molela uh.
‘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 Mwet se ma wangin sou lal in sifil moli acn sac, sahp ac tok oasri ma lal ac el ku in sifacna sifilpa molela.
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 Fin ouinge, el enenu in moli nu sin mwet se ma tuh molela acn sac ke sie lupa ma ac fal nu ke lusen pacl lula nu ke Yac in Folokyang se tok uh, mweyen pa inge pacl se acn sac ac nuna folokyang nu sel.
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 Tusruktu fin tia fal lupan mani yorol in sifil molela acn sac, na ac oanna ye karinginyuk lun mwet se ma molela sel ah nwe ke sun Yac in Folokyang se tok uh. Ke pacl sacn ac fah folokyang nu sin mwet se la acn sac meet ah.
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 “Sie mwet fin kukakin lohm sel in sie siti ma kalkalak, oasr suwohs lal in sifilpa molela ke yac fon se tukun len se kukala uh.
‘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 Tusruktu el fin tia sifilpa molela ke yac sac, ac wanginla suwohs lal in sifil moli, na lohm sac ac ma lac sin mwet se ma molela uh, ku fwil natul nwe tok. Na ac fah tia folokyang nu sin mwet se meet ah ke Yac in Folokyang sac.
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 Tusruktu lohm ma oan ke inkul ma tia kalkalak uh ac fah orek oana ima uh — mwet se ma la na pwaye meet ah, oasr suwohs lal in sifil molela, ac enenu in folokyang nu sel ke Yac in Folokyang.
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 Tusruktu, oasr suwohs lun mwet Levi in sifil molela lohm selos ke siti ma srisrngiyuki elos in muta we, ke kutena pacl.
‘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 Fin sie lohm in siti inge tuh kukakinyukla sin sie mwet Levi ac el tia sifil molela, na ac enenu in folokyang nu sel ke Yac in Folokyang sac, mweyen lohm sin mwet Levi ma oan in siti selos uh ac ma na selos nwe tok.
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 Tusruktu acn in ima ma oan raunla siti lun mwet Levi, ac fah tiana kukakinyuk. Acn inge ma na selos nwe tok.
But the pastureland near their towns must not be sold. It must belong to the original owners permanently/forever.
35 “Sie mwet Israel wiom su muta apkuran nu yurum fin sukasrupla ac tia ku in konauk inkanek in kasru nu sel, kom fah sang kasru nu sel oana ke kom oru nu sin mwet su kom moli in orekma lom, tuh el fah ku in mutana apkuran nu yurum.
‘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 Nik kom eis kutena ma laesla sel, a akos God, ac lela mwet Israel wiom in mutana apkuran nu yurum.
[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 Nimet kom oru elan moli ma ac laesla lupan mani ma kom kasrel kac, ac nimet orek kapak ke mwe mongo ma kom kukakin nu sel.
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 Pa inge ma LEUM GOD lowos El sapkin, El su uskowosme liki facl Egypt in tuh sot facl Canaan lowos, ac in tuh God lowos.
[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 “Sie sin mwet Israel wiom su muta apkuran nu yurum fin sukasrupla ac sifacna kukakunulot nu sum oana sie mwet foko, kom fah tia sang elan oru orekma lun sie mwet kohs.
‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not force him to work like a slave.
40 El fah muta yurum oana sie mwet kom moli nu se, ac kulansap nu sum nwe ke sun Yac in Folokyang se tok uh.
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 In pacl sac, el ac tulik natul fah som liki kom, ac folokla nu yurin sou lal ac nu ke acn sin mwet matu lal su somla.
During that year, you must free him, and he will go back to his family and to the property that his ancestors owned.
42 Mwet Israel elos mwet kohs nu sin LEUM GOD, ac El usalosme liki facl Egypt. Elos fah tia kukakinyuk nu ke mwet kohs.
[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 Nimet kom oru upa nu selos, a kom in akos God lom.
And do not treat the Israelis whom you buy cruelly; instead, revere me, your God.
44 Kom fin enenu mwet foko, kom ku in moli sin mutanfahl ma raunikomla.
‘If you want to have slaves, you are permitted to buy them from nearby countries.
45 Kom ku pac in moli tulik nutin mwetsac su muta inmasrlowos. Tulik inge ma isusla in facl suwos elos ku in ma lowosla,
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 ac kom ku in eisalosyang in mwe usru nu sin tulik mukul nutum, su elos ac kulansupu ke lusen moul lalos nufon. A kom fah tiana oru in upa nu sin kutena mwet Israel wiom.
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 “Fin fahsr nwe sie mwetsac su muta yurum el ekla sie mwet kasrup, ac sie mwet Israel wiom el sukasrupla ac sifacna kukakunulang tuh elan mwet foko nu sin mwetsac sac, ku nu sin sou lun mwetsac sac,
‘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 srakna oasr suwohs lun mwet Israel sac in sifilpa moliyukla el tukun kukala el uh. Sie sin tamulel lal,
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 ku mukul wien papa ku nina kial, ku mwet nutin tamulel ku tamtael lun papa ku nina kial, ku sie pacna su sou fototo lal, ku in sifil molella. Ku el sifacna, fin oasri mani lal ma ac fal in molella, el ku in sifacna molella elan sukosokla.
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 El enenu in aetuila nu sin mwet se ma molella ah, ac eltal fah oakla pisen yac ma el kukakunulla sifacna kac me nu ke Yac in Folokyang se tok uh, ac oaki molin sukosokla lal fal nu ke lupan moul ma orekmakinyuk nu sin mwet ma orekma ac moul nu se.
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 “Fin srakna pus yac lula uh, molin sukosokla lal uh ac fah oekyuk fal nu ke pisen yac lula, na pisa se inge ac fah folokinyuk nu sin mwet se ma molella ah.
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 fin yac na pu pa lula nu ke Yac in Folokyang se tok uh, el fah akfalye molin sukosokla lal uh fal nu ke molin yac lula inge,
If there are only a few years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.
53 oana ke el fin orekma ac moul nu sel ke oakwuk lun molin yac. Leum se ma el orekma nu se uh fah tia oru in upala nu sel.
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 El fin tiana aksukosokyeyukla ke kutena sin ouiya inge, na el, ac tulik natul, fah aksukosokyeyukla ke Yac in Folokyang se tok uh.
‘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 Sie mwet Israel tia ku in orekma in mwet kohs nwe tok, mweyen mwet Israel elos mwet kulansap nu sin LEUM GOD. El usalosme liki facl Egypt. El pa LEUM GOD lalos.”
because [it is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from [being slaves in] Egypt.’”
