Leviticus 25

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

And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

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

Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall celebrate a sabbath to Jehovah.

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

Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof,

4 septimo autem anno sabbatum erit terrae, requietionis Domini: agrum non seres, et vineam non putabis.

but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune.

5 Quae sponte gignet humus, non metes: et uvas primitiarum tuarum non colliges quasi vindemiam: annus enim requietionis terrae est:

That which springeth up from the scattered seed of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the land.

6 sed erunt vobis in cibum, tibi et servo tuo, ancillae et mercenario tuo, et advenae qui peregrinatur apud te:

And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle,

7 iumentis tuis et pecoribus omnia quae nascuntur, praebebunt cibum.

and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food.

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

And thou shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be unto thee forty-nine years.

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

Then shalt thou cause the loud sound of the trumpet to go forth in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement shall ye cause the trumpet to go forth throughout your land.

10 Sanctificabisque annum quinquagesimum, et vocabis remissionem cunctis habitatoribus terrae tuae: ipse est enim iubilaeus. Revertetur homo ad possessionem suam, et unusquisque rediet ad familiam pristinam:

And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; a [year of] jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family;

11 quia iubilaeus est et quinquagesimus annus. Non seretis, neque metetis sponte in agro nascentia, et primitias vindemiae non colligetis,

a year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap its aftergrowth, nor gather [the fruit of] its undressed vines.

12 ob sanctificationem iubilaei, sed statim oblata comedetis.

For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of the field shall ye eat its produce.

13 Anno iubilaei redient omnes ad possessiones suas.

In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto 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 ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

15 et iuxta supputationem frugum vendet tibi.

According to the number of years since the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of the produce, he shall sell unto thee.

16 Quanto plures anni remanserint post iubilaeum, tanto crescet et pretium: et quanto minus temporis numeraveris, tanto minoris et emptio constabit. tempus enim frugum vendet tibi.

According to the greater number of the years, thou shalt increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt diminish the price of it; for it is the number of crops that he selleth unto thee.

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

And ye shall not oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am Jehovah your God.

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

And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely.

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 and be satisfied, and dwell therein securely.

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

And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;

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

then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce 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 ye shall eat of the old fruit until the ninth year; until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old.

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

And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

24 unde cuncta regio possessionis vestrae 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 grow poor, and sell of his possession, then shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that which his brother sold.

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

And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its redemption,

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

then shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so return unto 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.

And if his hand have not found what sufficeth for him to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the purchaser, until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

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

And if any one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he shall have the right of redemption up to the end of the year of the sale thereof; for a full year shall he 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.

But if it be not redeemed until a whole year is complete, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

31 Sin autem in villa domus, quae muros non habet, agrorum iure vendetur. si ante redempta non fuerit, in iubileo revertetur ad dominum.

But the houses in villages that have no wall round about them shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

32 Aedes Levitarum, quae in urbibus sunt, semper possunt redimi:

But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

33 si redemptae non fuerint, in iubileo revertentur ad dominos, quia domus urbium Levitarum pro possessionibus sunt inter filios Israel.

And if any one redeem from one of the Levites, then the house that was sold, in 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 children of Israel.

34 Suburbana autem eorum non veneant, quia possessio sempiterna est.

And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall 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 grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, [be he] stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.

36 ne accipias usuras ab eo, nec amplius quam dedisti. Time Deum tuum, ut vivere possit frater tuus apud te.

Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.

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

Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

38 Ego Dominus Deus vester, qui eduxi vos de Terra Aegypti, 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, to be your God.

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

And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

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

as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee.

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

Then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

42 mei enim servi sunt, et ego eduxi eos de Terra Aegypti. non veneant conditione servorum:

For they are my bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as [men] sell bondmen.

43 ne affligas eum per potentiam, sed metuito Deum tuum.

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt fear thy God.

44 Servus et ancilla sint vobis de nationibus quae in circuitu vestro sunt.

And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have — of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.

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

Moreover of the children of them that dwell as sojourners with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your possession.

46 et hereditario iure transmittetis ad posteros, ac possidebitis in aeternum. fratres autem vestros filios Israel ne opprimatis per potentiam.

And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour.

47 Si invaluerit apud vos manus advenae atque peregrini, et attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit se ei, aut cuiquam de stirpe eius:

And if a stranger or sojourner become wealthy beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion of the stranger's family,

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

after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.

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

Either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his next relations of his family may redeem him; or if his means be sufficient, he may redeem himself.

50 supputatis dumtaxat annis a tempore venditionis suae usque in annum iubileum: et pecunia, qua venditus fuerat, iuxta annorum numerum et rationem mercenarii supputata.

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.

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

If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption [money] 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 unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his [remaining] years [of service] shall he give him back his redemption [money].

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

As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; [his master] shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes.

54 Quod si per haec redimi non potuerit, anno iubileo egredietur cum liberis suis.

And if he be not redeemed in this manner, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.

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

For the children of Israel are servants unto me; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.