Leviticus 25

1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in monte Sinai, dicens:

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

2 Loquere filiis Israel, et dices ad eos: Quando ingressi fueritis terram quam ego dabo vobis, sabbatizes sabbatum Domino.

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 Sex annis seres agrum tuum, et sex annis putabis vineam tuam, colligesque fructus eius:

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

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, 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 Quæ sponte gignet humus, non metes: et uvas primitiarum tuarum non colliges quasi vindemiam: annus enim requietionis terræ est:

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 sed erunt vobis in cibum, tibi et servo tuo, ancillæ et mercenario tuo, et advenæ qui peregrinantur apud te:

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 iumentis tuis et pecoribus omnia quæ nascuntur, præbebunt cibum.

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

8 Numerabis quoque tibi septem hebdomadas annorum, id est, septies septem, quæ simul faciunt annos quadraginta novem:

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 et clanges buccina mense septimo, decima die mensis, propitiationis tempore, in universa terra vestra.

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 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 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 quia Iubilæus est et quinquagesimus annus. Non seretis, neque metetis sponte in agro nascentia, et primitias vindemiæ non colligetis,

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 ob sanctificationem Iubilæi, sed statim oblata comedetis.

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

13 Anno Iubilæi redient omnes ad possessiones suas.

In the year of the release [even] the jubilee of it, shall [each] one return 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 shouldest sell a possession to thy neighbour, or if thou shouldest buy of thy neighbour, let not a man oppress his neighbour.

15 et iuxta supputationem frugum vendet tibi.

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 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 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 Nolite affligere contribules vestros, sed timeat unusquisque Deum suum, quia Ego Dominus Deus vester.

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

18 Facite præcepta mea, et iudicia custodite, et implete ea, ut habitare possitis in terra absque ullo pavore,

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 et gignat vobis humus fructus suos, quibus vescamini usque ad saturitatem, nullius impetum formidantes.

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

20 Quod si dixeritis: Quid comedemus anno septimo, si non severimus, neque collegerimus fruges nostras?

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

21 Dabo benedictionem meam vobis anno sexto, et faciet fructus trium annorum:

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

22 seretisque anno octavo, et comedetis veteres fruges usque ad nonum annum: donec nova nascantur, edetis vetera.

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 Terra quoque non vendetur in perpetuum: quia mea est, et vos advenæ et coloni mei estis.

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

24 Unde cuncta regio possessionis vestræ sub redemptionis conditione vendetur.

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

25 Si attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit possessiunculam suam, et voluerit propinquus eius, potest redimere quod ille vendiderat.

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 Sin autem non habuerit proximum, et ipse pretium ad redimendum potuerit invenire:

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

27 computabuntur fructus ex eo tempore quo vendidit: et quod reliquum est, reddet emptori, sicque recipiet possessionem suam.

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 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 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 Qui vendiderit domum intra urbis muros, habebit licentiam redimendi, donec unus impleatur annus.

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 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 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 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 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 Ædes Levitarum, quæ in urbibus sunt, semper possunt redimi:

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

33 si redemptæ non fuerint, in iubileo revertentur ad dominos, quia domus urbium Levitarum pro possessionibus sunt inter filios 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 Suburbana autem eorum non veneant, quia possessio sempiterna est.

And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this 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 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 ne accipias usuras ab eo, nec amplius quam dedisti. Time Deum tuum, ut vivere possit frater tuus apud te.

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 Pecuniam tuam non dabis ei ad usuram, et frugum superabundantiam non exiges.

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 Ego Dominus Deus vester, qui eduxi vos de Terra Ægypti, ut darem vobis Terram Chanaan, et essem vester Deus.

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 Si paupertate compulsus vendiderit se tibi frater tuus, non eum opprimes servitute famulorum,

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 sed quasi mercenarius et colonus erit: usque ad annum Iubileum operabitur apud te,

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

41 et postea egredietur cum liberis suis, et revertetur ad cognationem ad possessionem patrum suorum.

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 Mei enim servi sunt, et ego eduxi eos de Terra Ægypti, non veneant conditione servorum:

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 ne affligas eum per potentiam, sed metuito Deum tuum.

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

44 Servus et ancilla sint vobis de nationibus quæ in circuitu vestro sunt,

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 et de advenis qui peregrinantur apud vos, vel qui ex his nati fuerint in terra vestra: hos habebitis famulos:

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 et hereditario iure transmittetis ad posteros, ac possidebitis in æternum. Fratres autem vestros filios Israel ne opprimatis per potentiam.

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 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 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 post venditionem potest redimi. Qui voluerit ex fratribus suis, redimet eum,

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

49 et patruus, et patruelis, et consanguineus, et affinis. Sin autem et ipse potuerit, redimet se,

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 supputatis dumtaxat annis a tempore venditionis suæ usque ad annum Iubileum: et pecunia, qua venditus fuerat, iuxta annorum numerum et rationem mercenarii supputata.

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 Si plures fuerint anni qui remanent usque ad Iubileum, secundum hos reddet et pretium.

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 Si pauci, ponet rationem cum eo iuxta annorum numerum, et reddet emptori quod reliquum est annorum,

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 quibus ante servivit mercedibus imputatis: non affliget eum violenter in conspectu tuo.

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

54 Quod si per hæc redimi non potuerit, anno Iubileo egredietur cum liberis suis.

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 Mei enim sunt servi, filii Israel, quos eduxi de Terra Ægypti.

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