Leviticus 25
1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in monte Sinai, dicens:
Yahweh spoke to Moses on 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 people of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land that I give you, then the land must be made to keep a Sabbath for Yahweh.
3 Sex annis seres agrum tuum, et sex annis putabis vineam tuam, colligesque fructus eius:
You must plant your field for six years, and for six years you must prune your vineyard and gather the produce.
4 septimo autem anno sabbatum erit terræ, requietionis Domini: agrum non seres, et vineam non putabis.
But in the seventh year, a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land must be observed, a Sabbath for Yahweh. You must not plant your field or prune your vineyard.
5 Quæ sponte gignet humus, non metes: et uvas primitiarum tuarum non colliges quasi vindemiam: annus enim requietionis terræ est:
You must not conduct an organized harvest of whatever grows by itself, and you must not conduct an organized harvest of whatever grapes grow on your unpruned vines. This will 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:
Whatever the unworked land grows during the Sabbath year will be food for you. You, your male and female servants, your hired servants and the foreigners who live with you may gather food,
7 iumentis tuis et pecoribus omnia quæ nascuntur, præbebunt cibum.
and your livestock and also wild animals may eat whatever the land produces.
8 Numerabis quoque tibi septem hebdomadas annorum, id est, septies septem, quæ simul faciunt annos quadraginta novem:
You must count off seven Sabbaths of years, that is, seven times seven years, so that there will be seven Sabbaths of years, totaling forty-nine years.
9 et clanges buccina mense septimo, decima die mensis, propitiationis tempore, in universa terra vestra.
Then you must blow a loud trumpet everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you must blow a 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:
You must set apart the fiftieth year to Yahweh and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, in which property and slaves must be returned to their families.
11 quia iubilæus est et quinquagesimus annus. Non seretis, neque metetis sponte in agro nascentia, et primitias vindemiæ non colligetis,
The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you. You must not plant or conduct an organized harvest. Eat whatever grows by itself, and gather the grapes that grow on the unpruned vines.
12 ob sanctificationem iubilæi, sed statim oblata comedetis.
For it is a Jubilee, which will be holy for you. You must eat the produce that grows by itself out of the fields.
13 Anno iubilæi redient omnes ad possessiones suas.
You must return everyone to his own property in this year of Jubilee.
14 quando vendes quippiam civi tuo, vel emes ab eo, ne contristes fratrem tuum, sed iuxta numerum annorum iubilei emes ab eo,
If you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any land from your neighbor, you must not cheat or wrong each other.
15 et iuxta supputationem frugum vendet tibi.
If you buy land from your neighbor, consider the number of years and crops that can be harvested until the next Jubilee. Your neighbor selling the land must consider that also.
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.
A larger number of years until the next Jubilee will increase the value of land, and a smaller number of years until the next Jubilee will decrease the value, because the number of harvests the land will produce for the new owner is related to the number of years before the next Jubilee.
17 Nolite affligere contribules vestros, sed timeat unusquisque Deum suum, quia ego Dominus Deus vester.
You must not cheat or wrong one another; instead, you must honor your God, for I am Yahweh your God.
18 Facite præcepta mea, et iudicia custodite, et implete ea, ut habitare possitis in terra absque ullo pavore,
Therefore you must obey my decrees, keep my laws, and carry them out. Then you will live in the land in safety.
19 et gignat vobis humus fructus suos, quibus vescamini usque ad saturitatem, nullius impetum formidantes.
The land will yield its produce, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.
20 Quod si dixeritis: Quid comedemus anno septimo, si non severimus, neque collegerimus fruges nostras?
You might say, “What will we eat during the seventh year? Look, we cannot plant or gather our produce.”
21 Dabo benedictionem meam vobis anno sexto, et faciet fructus trium annorum:
I will command my blessing to come upon you in the sixth year, and it will produce harvest enough for three years.
22 seretisque anno octavo, et comedetis veteres fruges usque ad nonum annum: donec nova nascantur, edetis vetera.
You will plant in the eighth year and continue to eat from the previous years' produce and the stored food. Until the harvest of the ninth year comes in, you will be able to eat from the provisions stored in the previous years.
23 Terra quoque non vendetur in perpetuum: quia mea est, et vos advenæ et coloni mei estis.
The land must not be sold to a new permanent owner, because the land is mine. You are all foreigners and temporary residents on my land.
24 unde cuncta regio possessionis vestræ sub redemptionis conditione vendetur.
You must observe the right of redemption for all the land that you acquire; you must allow the land to be bought back by the family from whom you bought it.
25 Si attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit possessiunculam suam, et voluerit propinquus eius, potest redimere quod ille vendiderat.
If your fellow Israelite became poor and for that reason sold some of his property, then his nearest relative may come and buy back the property that he sold to you.
26 sin autem non habuerit proximum, et ipse pretium ad redimendum potuerit invenire:
If a man has no relative to redeem his property, but if he has prospered and has the ability to redeem it,
27 computabuntur fructus ex eo tempore quo vendidit: et quod reliquum est, reddet emptori, sicque recipiet possessionem suam.
then he may calculate the years since the land was sold and repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it. Then he may return to his own property.
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 the land back for himself, then the land he has sold will remain in the ownership of the one who bought it until the year of Jubilee. At the year of Jubilee, the land will be returned to the man who sold it, and the original owner will return to his property.
29 Qui vendiderit domum intra urbis muros, habebit licentiam redimendi, donec unus impleatur annus.
If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may buy it back within a whole year after it was sold. For a full year he will 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.
If the house is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city will become the permanent property of the buyer and his descendants. It is not to be returned in the year of 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 that have no wall around them will be considered as the field of the land. They may be redeemed, and they must be returned during the year of Jubilee.
32 Ædes Levitarum, quæ in urbibus sunt, semper possunt redimi:
However, the houses owned by the Levites in their cities may be redeemed at any time.
33 si redemptæ non fuerint, in iubileo revertentur ad dominos, quia domus urbium Levitarum pro possessionibus sunt inter filios Israel.
If one of the Levites does not redeem a house he sold, then the house that was sold in the city where it is located must be returned in the year of Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property among the people of Israel.
34 Suburbana autem eorum non veneant, quia possessio sempiterna est.
But the fields around their cities may not be sold because they are the permanent property of the Levites.
35 Si attenuatus fuerit frater tuus, et infirmus manu, et susceperis eum quasi advenam, et peregrinum, et vixerit tecum,
If your fellow countryman becomes poor, so that he can no longer provide for himself, then you must help him as you would help a foreigner or anyone else living as an outsider among you.
36 ne accipias usuras ab eo, nec amplius quam dedisti. Time Deum tuum, ut vivere possit frater tuus apud te.
Do not charge him interest or try to profit from him in any way, but honor your God so that your brother may keep living with you.
37 Pecuniam tuam non dabis ei ad usuram, et frugum superabundantiam non exiges.
You must not give him a loan of money and charge interest, nor sell him your food to earn a profit.
38 Ego Dominus Deus vester, qui eduxi vos de Terra Ægypti, ut darem vobis Terram Chanaan, et essem vester Deus.
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, in order that I might give you the land of Canaan, and that I might be your God.
39 Si paupertate compulsus vendiderit se tibi frater tuus, non eum opprimes servitute famulorum,
If your fellow countryman has become poor and sells himself to you, you must not make him work like a slave.
40 sed quasi mercenarius et colonus erit: usque ad annum iubileum operabitur apud te,
Treat him as a hired servant. He must be like someone living temporarily with you. He will serve with you until the year of Jubilee.
41 et postea egredietur cum liberis suis, et revertetur ad cognationem ad possessionem patrum suorum.
Then he will go away from you, he and his children with him, and he will return to his own family and to his fathers' property.
42 mei enim servi sunt, et ego eduxi eos de Terra Ægypti. non veneant conditione servorum:
For they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as slaves.
43 ne affligas eum per potentiam, sed metuito Deum tuum.
You must not rule over them harshly, but you must honor your God.
44 Servus et ancilla sint vobis de nationibus quæ in circuitu vestro sunt.
As for your male and female slaves, whom you can obtain from the nations who live around you, you may buy slaves from them.
45 Et de advenis qui peregrinantur apud vos, vel qui ex his nati fuerint in terra vestra, hos habebitis famulos:
You may also buy slaves from the foreigners who are living among you, that is, from their families who are with you, children who have been born in your land. They may become your property.
46 et hereditario iure transmittetis ad posteros, ac possidebitis in æternum. fratres autem vestros filios Israel ne opprimatis per potentiam.
You may provide such slaves as an inheritance for your children after you, to hold as property, and make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your brothers among the people of Israel with harshness.
47 Si invaluerit apud vos manus advenæ atque peregrini, et attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit se ei, aut cuiquam de stirpe eius:
If a foreigner or someone living temporarily with you has become wealthy, and if one of your fellow Israelites has become poor and sells himself to that foreigner, or to someone in a foreigner's family,
48 post venditionem potest redimi. Qui voluerit ex fratribus suis, redimet eum,
after your fellow Israelite has been bought, he may be bought back. Someone in his family may redeem him.
49 et patruus, et patruelis, et consanguineus, et affinis. Sin autem et ipse potuerit, redimet se,
It might be the person's uncle, or his uncle's son, who redeems him, or anyone who is his close relative from his family. Or, if he has become prosperous, 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.
He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the year of Jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.
51 Si plures fuerint anni qui remanent usque ad iubileum, secundum hos reddet et pretium.
If there are still many years until the year of Jubilee, he must pay back as the price for his redemption an amount of money that is in proportion to the number of those years.
52 si pauci, ponet rationem cum eo iuxta annorum numerum, et reddet emptori quod reliquum est annorum,
If there are only a few years to the year of Jubilee, then he must bargain with his purchaser to reflect the number of years left before the year of Jubilee, and he must pay for his redemption in keeping with the number of years.
53 quibus ante servivit mercedibus imputatis: non affliget eum violenter in conspectu tuo.
He is to be treated like a man hired year by year. You must make sure he is not treated with harshness.
54 Quod si per hæc redimi non potuerit, anno iubileo egredietur cum liberis suis.
If he is not redeemed by these means, then he must serve until the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
55 Mei enim sunt servi, filii Israel, quos eduxi de Terra Ægypti.
To me the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'”
