Levítico 25
1 Yavé habló a Moisés en la Montaña Sinaí:
Yahweh said to Moses/me on Sinai Mountain,
2 Habla a los hijos de Israel: Cuando entren en la tierra que Yo les doy, la tierra guardará reposo para Yavé.
“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 Seis años cultivarás tu tierra y seis años podarás tu viña y recogerás sus frutos.
For six years you are to plant seeds in your fields and prune your grapevines and harvest the crops.
4 Pero el séptimo año será sábado de completo reposo para la tierra, un sábado para Yavé. No sembrarás tu campo, ni podarás tu viña.
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 No cosecharás lo que nazca espontáneamente después de tu cosecha, ni recogerás las uvas de tus vides no podadas. Año de reposo sabático será para la tierra.
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 El [fruto] del año sabático de la tierra les será de alimento para ti, tu esclavo, tu esclava, tu jornalero y el extranjero que more contigo.
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 Todo el fruto de ella servirá de comida para tu animal y las bestias que estén en tu tierra. Todo su fruto será para comer.
Also, [during that year] your livestock and the wild animals in your land are permitted to eat it.’
8 Contarás para ti siete semanas de años: siete veces siete años, de manera que los días de las siete semanas de años te sean 49 años.
‘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 El décimo día del mes séptimo harás resonar la corneta. El día del Sacrificio que Apacigua harán resonar la corneta por toda su tierra.
10 Consagrarán el año 50 y proclamarán libertad a todos los que habitan en la tierra. Será un jubileo para ustedes y cada uno volverá a su propiedad. Cada uno de ustedes volverá a su familia.
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 El año 50 será jubileo para ustedes. No sembrarán ni cosecharán lo que de sí brote en la tierra, ni recogerán el fruto de las viñas,
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 porque es jubileo sagrado para ustedes. Comerán el producto de la tierra.
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 En este año de jubileo cada uno de ustedes volverá a su propiedad.
‘In that Year of Celebration, everyone must return to their own property.
14 Si venden algo a su prójimo o compran algo de su prójimo, ninguno engañe a su hermano.
‘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 Conforme al número de años después del jubileo, comprarás de tu prójimo, y él te venderá conforme al número de años de las cosechas.
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 Aumentarás su precio en proporción al número de años que restan para el próximo jubileo. Y según disminuyan los años, disminuirás su precio, porque él te vende según el número de cosechas.
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 No se engañen el uno al otro. Temerán a su ʼElohim, porque Yo soy Yavé su ʼElohim.
Do not cheat each other; instead, revere me. I, Yahweh your God, [am the one who am commanding this].
18 Cumplan mis Estatutos y guarden mis Ordenanzas. Practíquenlas y vivirán seguros en la tierra.
‘Obey all my laws [DOU] carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country [DOU].
19 La tierra dará su fruto y comerán hasta la saciedad. Vivirán en ella con seguridad.
And crops will grow well on the land, and you will have plenty to eat.
20 Si dicen: ¿Qué comeremos el séptimo año, puesto que no sembraremos, ni recogeremos nuestras cosechas?
But you may ask, “If we do not plant or harvest our crops during the seventh year, what will we have to eat?”
21 Entonces sepan que en el sexto año Yo ordenaré mi bendición sobre ustedes, para que produzca cosecha por tres años.
[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 Sembrarán en el octavo año, pero seguirán comiendo de la cosecha añeja hasta el año noveno. Comerán de lo añejo hasta que llegue la cosecha.
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 Además, la tierra no será vendida a perpetuidad, porque mía es la tierra, y ustedes son extranjeros y peregrinos que están conmigo.
‘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 Por tanto, concederán la redención de la tierra en toda la tierra de su posesión.
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 Si tu hermano empobrece y vende una parte de su propiedad, y llega su pariente redentor a redimirla, rescatará lo que vendió su hermano.
‘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 Si ese hombre no tiene redentor, pero consigue lo suficiente para rescatarla él mismo,
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 calculará los años desde su venta, pagará el resto a la persona a quien vendió y volverá a su posesión.
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 Pero si no halla suficiente para recuperar lo vendido quedará en mano del comprador hasta el año del jubileo, y en el jubileo quedará libre y volverá a su propiedad.
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 Si un hombre vende una casa de habitación en una ciudad amurallada, su derecho de rescate durará un año completo a partir de su venta. Puede redimirla en el término de un año completo.
‘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 Pero si no es rescatada en el plazo de un año completo, la casa que esté en la ciudad amurallada, pertenecerá a perpetuidad al comprador y sus descendientes. No quedará libre en el jubileo.
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 Las casas de las aldeas que no están amuralladas serán consideradas como una parcela de tierra. Tendrán derecho a rescate y quedarán libres en el jubileo.
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 En cuanto a las ciudades de los levitas, éstos podrán rescatar las casas en las ciudades de su propiedad en cualquier tiempo.
‘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 Así que si un hombre compra una casa de los levitas, liberará en el jubileo la casa que le fue vendida en la ciudad y que pertenece a los levitas, porque las casas de las ciudades de los levitas son propiedad de ellos entre los hijos de Israel.
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 Pero los campos de pastos de sus ciudades no se venderán, porque son propiedad perpetua de ellos.
But the pastureland near their towns must not be sold. It must belong to the original owners permanently/forever.
35 Si tu hermano empobrece y se halla a tu lado, tú lo ampararás como si fuera un extranjero o forastero, para que pueda vivir contigo.
‘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 No tomarás de él interés ni ganancia, sino tendrás temor a tu ʼElohim, para que tu hermano viva contigo.
[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 No le prestarás tu dinero con interés, ni le venderás tus víveres con ganancia.
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 Yo soy Yavé su ʼElohim, Quien los sacó de la tierra de Egipto para darles la tierra de Canaán y para ser su ʼElohim.
[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 Si tu hermano que está contigo empobrece y se vende a ti, no lo harás servir como esclavo.
‘If one of your fellow Israelis becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not force him to work like a slave.
40 Estará contigo como jornalero o forastero, y te servirá hasta el año del jubileo.
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 Entonces saldrá libre de tu casa, él y sus hijos, y volverá a su familia y a la propiedad de sus padres.
During that year, you must free him, and he will go back to his family and to the property that his ancestors owned.
42 Porque ellos son esclavos míos, a quienes Yo saqué de la tierra de Egipto. No serán vendidos como esclavos,
[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 ni te enseñorearás de ellos con dureza. Tendrás temor a tu ʼElohim.
And do not treat the Israelis whom you buy cruelly; instead, revere me, your God.
44 Tus esclavos y esclavas serán de las naciones que están alrededor. De ellas podrán adquirir esclavos y esclavas.
‘If you want to have slaves, you are permitted to buy them from nearby countries.
45 También podrán adquirirlos de los hijos de los forasteros que viven entre ustedes. De sus familias nacidas en la tierra de ustedes, las cuales podrán tener en posesión,
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 las dejarán como herencia a sus hijos después de ustedes, como posesión hereditaria. Pero en cuanto a sus hermanos, los hijos de Israel, no se enseñorearán los unos de los otros con dureza.
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 Si el extranjero o el forastero que vive contigo alcanza riqueza, y tu hermano que está con él empobrece y se vende al extranjero o al forastero que vive contigo, o a los descendientes de la familia de un extranjero,
‘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 después de venderse podrá ser rescatado. Uno de sus hermanos lo podrá rescatar,
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 o su tío o un hijo de su tío lo rescatará. O algún pariente cercano de su familia lo rescatará, o si prospera, él mismo podrá redimirse.
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 Entonces hará el cálculo con aquel que lo compró, desde el año cuando se vendió a él hasta el año del jubileo. Su precio será según el número de años. Valorarán los días de trabajo como los de un jornalero.
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 Si aún le quedan muchos años, devolverá el dinero para su rescate conforme a ellos.
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 Pero si le quedan pocos años hasta el año del jubileo, así los calculará con él. Devolverá su rescate conforme a esos años.
If there are only a few years that remain until the Year of Celebration, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.
53 Como el que trabaja a jornal año por año, así estará con él. No permitirás que lo trate con dureza delante de ti.
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 Si no es rescatado en esos años, saldrá libre el año del jubileo, él y sus hijos,
‘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 porque los hijos de Israel son mis esclavos, a quienes saqué de la tierra de Egipto. Yo, Yavé su ʼElohim.
because [it is as though] you Israelis are my slaves/servants, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from [being slaves in] Egypt.’”
