Leviticus 25
1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in monte Sinai, dicens:
And Jehovah spoke to Moses at mount Sinai, saying,
2 Loquere filiis Israel, et dices ad eos: Quando ingressi fueritis terram quam ego dabo vobis, sabbatizes sabbatum Domino.
Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to Jehovah.
3 Sex annis seres agrum tuum, et sex annis putabis vineam tuam, colligesque fructus eius:
Six years thou shall sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits of it,
4 septimo autem anno sabbatum erit terræ, requietionis Domini: agrum non seres, et vineam non putabis.
but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thou shall neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 Quæ sponte gignet humus, non metes: et uvas primitiarum tuarum non colliges quasi vindemiam: annus enim requietionis terræ est:
That which grows of itself of thy harvest thou shall not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
6 sed erunt vobis in cibum, tibi et servo tuo, ancillæ et mercenario tuo, et advenæ qui peregrinantur apud te:
And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourns with thee.
7 iumentis tuis et pecoribus omnia quæ nascuntur, præbebunt cibum.
And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, all the increase of it shall be for food.
8 Numerabis quoque tibi septem hebdomadas annorum, id est, septies septem, quæ simul faciunt annos quadraginta novem:
And thou shall number seven sabbaths of years to thee, seven times seven years, and there shall be to thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
9 et clanges buccina mense septimo, decima die mensis, propitiationis tempore, in universa terra vestra.
Then thou shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of atonement ye shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
10 Sanctificabisque annum quinquagesimum, et vocabis remissionem cunctis habitatoribus terræ tuæ: ipse est enim Iubilæus. Revertetur homo ad possessionem suam, et unusquisque rediet ad familiam pristinam:
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It shall be a jubilee to you, and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family.
11 quia Iubilæus est et quinquagesimus annus. Non seretis, neque metetis sponte in agro nascentia, et primitias vindemiæ non colligetis,
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines.
12 ob sanctificationem Iubilæi, sed statim oblata comedetis.
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. Ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field.
13 Anno Iubilæi redient omnes ad possessiones suas.
In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.
14 Quando vendes quippiam civi tuo, vel emes ab eo, ne contristes fratrem tuum, sed iuxta numerum annorum Iubilei emes ab eo,
And if thou sell anything to thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong each other.
15 et iuxta supputationem frugum vendet tibi.
According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shall buy of thy neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to thee.
16 Quanto plures anni remanserint post Iubilæum, tanto crescet et pretium: et quanto minus temporis numeraveris, tanto minoris et emptio constabit. Tempus enim frugum vendet tibi.
According to the multitude of the years thou shall increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of the years thou shall diminish the price of it, for the number of the crops he sells to thee.
17 Nolite affligere contribules vestros, sed timeat unusquisque Deum suum, quia Ego Dominus Deus vester.
And ye shall not wrong each other, but thou shall fear thy God, for I am Jehovah your God.
18 Facite præcepta mea, et iudicia custodite, et implete ea, ut habitare possitis in terra absque ullo pavore,
Therefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 et gignat vobis humus fructus suos, quibus vescamini usque ad saturitatem, nullius impetum formidantes.
And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in safety in it.
20 Quod si dixeritis: Quid comedemus anno septimo, si non severimus, neque collegerimus fruges nostras?
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase,
21 Dabo benedictionem meam vobis anno sexto, et faciet fructus trium annorum:
then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
22 seretisque anno octavo, et comedetis veteres fruges usque ad nonum annum: donec nova nascantur, edetis vetera.
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old storage, until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old storage.
23 Terra quoque non vendetur in perpetuum: quia mea est, et vos advenæ et coloni mei estis.
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 Unde cuncta regio possessionis vestræ sub redemptionis conditione vendetur.
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 Si attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit possessiunculam suam, et voluerit propinquus eius, potest redimere quod ille vendiderat.
If thy brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possession, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and shall redeem that which his brother has sold.
26 Sin autem non habuerit proximum, et ipse pretium ad redimendum potuerit invenire:
And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to redeem it,
27 computabuntur fructus ex eo tempore quo vendidit: et quod reliquum est, reddet emptori, sicque recipiet possessionem suam.
then let him reckon the years of the sale of it, and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.
28 Quod si non invenerit manus eius ut reddat pretium, habebit emptor quod emerat, usque ad annum Iubileum. In ipso enim omnis venditio redibit ad dominum, et ad possessorem pristinum.
But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then that which 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 go out, and he shall return to his possession.
29 Qui vendiderit domum intra urbis muros, habebit licentiam redimendi, donec unus impleatur annus.
And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
30 Si non redemerit, et anni circulus fuerit evolutus, emptor possidebit eam, et posteri eius in perpetuum, et redimi non poterit, etiam in Iubileo.
And if it be not 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 go out in the jubilee.
31 Sin autem in villa domus, quæ muros non habet, agrorum iure vendetur. Si ante redempta non fuerit, in iubileo revertetur ad dominum.
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
32 Ædes Levitarum, quæ in urbibus sunt, semper possunt redimi:
Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
33 si redemptæ non fuerint, in iubileo revertentur ad dominos, quia domus urbium Levitarum pro possessionibus sunt inter filios Israel.
And if a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.
34 Suburbana autem eorum non veneant, quia possessio sempiterna est.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
35 Si attenuatus fuerit frater tuus, et infirmus manu, et susceperis eum quasi advenam, et peregrinum, et vixerit tecum,
And if thy brother becomes poor, and his hand fails with thee, then thou shall uphold him; he shall live with thee as a stranger and a sojourner.
36 ne accipias usuras ab eo, nec amplius quam dedisti. Time Deum tuum, ut vivere possit frater tuus apud te.
Take thou no interest from him or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
37 Pecuniam tuam non dabis ei ad usuram, et frugum superabundantiam non exiges.
Thou shall not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy food for profit.
38 Ego Dominus Deus vester, qui eduxi vos de Terra Ægypti, ut darem vobis Terram Chanaan, et essem vester Deus.
I am Jehovah 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 Si paupertate compulsus vendiderit se tibi frater tuus, non eum opprimes servitute famulorum,
And if thy brother becomes poor with thee, and sells himself to thee, thou shall not impose upon him servile labor.
40 sed quasi mercenarius et colonus erit: usque ad annum Iubileum operabitur apud te,
He shall be with thee as a hired servant, and as a sojourner. He shall serve with thee to the year of jubilee.
41 et postea egredietur cum liberis suis, et revertetur ad cognationem ad possessionem patrum suorum.
Then he shall go out from thee, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his own family. And he shall return to the possession of his fathers.
42 Mei enim servi sunt, et ego eduxi eos de Terra Ægypti, non veneant conditione servorum:
For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 ne affligas eum per potentiam, sed metuito Deum tuum.
Thou shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear thy God.
44 Servus et ancilla sint vobis de nationibus quæ in circuitu vestro sunt,
And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shall have, from the nations that are round about you, ye shall buy bondmen and bondmaids from them.
45 et de advenis qui peregrinantur apud vos, vel qui ex his nati fuerint in terra vestra: hos habebitis famulos:
Moreover of the sons of the strangers who sojourn among you, ye shall buy from them, and from their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession.
46 et hereditario iure transmittetis ad posteros, ac possidebitis in æternum. Fratres autem vestros filios Israel ne opprimatis per potentiam.
And ye shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to hold for a possession. Ye shall take your permanent bondmen from them, but over your brothers the sons of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.
47 Si invaluerit apud vos manus advenæ atque peregrini, et attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit se ei, aut cuiquam de stirpe eius:
And if a stranger or sojourner with thee becomes rich, and thy brother becomes poor beside him, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family,
48 post venditionem potest redimi. Qui voluerit ex fratribus suis, redimet eum,
he may be redeemed after he is sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.
49 et patruus, et patruelis, et consanguineus, et affinis. Sin autem et ipse potuerit, redimet se,
Or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him. Or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.
50 supputatis dumtaxat annis a tempore venditionis suæ usque ad annum Iubileum: et pecunia, qua venditus fuerat, iuxta annorum numerum et rationem mercenarii supputata.
And 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. He shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
51 Si plures fuerint anni qui remanent usque ad Iubileum, secundum hos reddet et pretium.
If there be 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 Si pauci, ponet rationem cum eo iuxta annorum numerum, et reddet emptori quod reliquum est annorum,
And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him. He shall give back the price of his redemption according to his years.
53 quibus ante servivit mercedibus imputatis: non affliget eum violenter in conspectu tuo.
He shall be with him as a servant hired year by year. He shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
54 Quod si per hæc redimi non potuerit, anno Iubileo egredietur cum liberis suis.
And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his sons with him.
55 Mei enim sunt servi, filii Israel, quos eduxi de Terra Ægypti.
For the sons of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.
