Leviticus 25

1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying:

And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land which I will give to you, rest on the Sabbath of the Lord.

Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.

3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall care for your vineyard, and you shall gather its fruits.

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

4 But in the seventh year, there shall be a Sabbath of the land, a resting of the Lord. You shall not sow your field, and you shall not care for your vineyard.

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

5 What the soil shall spontaneously produce, you shall not harvest. And you shall not gather the grapes of the first-fruits as a crop. For it is a year of rest for the land.

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it is a year of rest to the land.

6 But these shall be yours for food, for you and for your men and women servants, and for your hired hands, and for the newcomers who sojourn with you:

And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,

7 all that grows on its own shall provide food for your beasts and cattle.

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy land, shall all the increase of it be food.

8 You shall also number for yourselves seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which together makes forty-nine years.

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years to thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to thee forty and nine years.

9 And you shall sound the trumpet in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, at the time of the atonement, throughout all your land.

Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound, on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

10 And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a remission for all the inhabitants of your land: for the same is the Jubilee. A man shall return to his possession, and each one shall go back to his original family,

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land to all its inhabitants: 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 for it is the Jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows in the field of its own accord, and you shall not gather the first-fruits of the crop,

A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.

12 due to the sanctification of the Jubilee. But you shall eat them as they present themselves.

For it [is] the jubilee; it shall be holy to you: ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field.

13 In the year of the Jubilee, all shall return to their possessions.

In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.

14 When you will sell anything to your fellow citizen, or buy anything from him, do not cause your brother grief, but buy from him according to the number of years from the Jubilee,

And if thou shalt sell aught to thy neighbor, or buy [aught] of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

15 and he shall sell to you according to the computation of the produce.

According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, [and] according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to thee:

16 The more years that will remain after the Jubilee, the more the price shall increase, and the less the time is numbered, so much less shall the purchase price be. For he will sell to you the time for the produce.

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits doth he sell to thee.

17 Do not be willing to afflict your countrymen, but let each one fear his God. For I am the Lord your God.

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.

18 Accomplish my precepts, and observe my judgments, and complete them, so that you may be able to live in the land without any fear,

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

19 and so that the soil may produce its fruits for you, from which you may eat, even to fullness, dreading violence by no one.

And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in it in safety.

20 But if you will say: What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and do not gather our produce?

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

21 I will give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce of three years.

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

22 And in the eighth year you shall sow, but you shall eat from the old produce, until the ninth year, until what is new matures, you shall eat what is old.

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of old fruit until the ninth year; until its fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store].

23 Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.

The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land [is] mine, for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.

24 Therefore, every region of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption.

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

25 If your brother, being in need, will have sold his little possession and his close relative is willing, he is able to redeem what he had sold.

If thy brother shall have become poor, and have sold [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin shall come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

26 But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,

And if the man shall have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

27 the produce shall be calculated from that time when he sold it. And what is lacking, he shall repay to the buyer, and so he shall receive his possession.

Then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession.

28 But if his hand will not have discovered a way to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the Jubilee. For in that year all that has been sold shall return to the owner, and to the original possessor.

But if he shall not be able to restore [it] to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

29 Whoever will have sold a house within the walls of a city shall have the freedom to redeem it, until one year has been completed.

And if a man shall sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold: [within] a full year may he redeem it.

30 If he has not redeemed it, and the year will have turned full circle, the buyer and his posterity shall possess it, in perpetuity, and it is not able to be redeemed, even in the Jubilee.

And if it shall not be redeemed within the space of a full year, 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 But if the house is in a village, which has no walls, it shall be sold by the law of the fields. If it has not been redeemed beforehand, then in the Jubilee it shall return to the owner.

But the houses of the villages which have no walls around them, shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

32 The buildings of the Levites, which are in the cities, are always able to be redeemed.

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

33 If they have not been redeemed, then in the Jubilee they shall return to the owners, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possession among the sons of Israel.

And if a man shall purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession shall go out in the [year of] jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their possession among the children of Israel.

34 But let not their suburbs be sold, for it is an everlasting possession.

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it [is] their perpetual possession.

35 If your brother has become impoverished, or infirm of hand, and you take him in, like a newcomer or a sojourner, and he lives with you,

And if thy brother shall have become poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he] may [be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

36 do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you.

Take thou no interest of him, or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

37 You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

38 I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I might give to you the land of Canaan, and so that I may be your God.

I [am] the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God.

39 If your brother, having been compelled by poverty, will have sold himself to you, you shall not oppress him with the servitude of indentured servants.

And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee shall have become poor, and be sold to thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant:

40 But he shall be like a hired hand or a settler; he shall work with you, until the year of the Jubilee.

[But] as a hired servant, [and] as a sojourner he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee to the year of jubilee.

41 And after that, he shall depart with his children, and he shall return to his kindred, to the possession of his fathers.

And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

42 For these are my servants, and I led them away from the land of Egypt; let them not be sold into the condition of servitude.

For they [are] my servants, which I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bond-men.

43 Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.

44 Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,

Both thy bond-men, and thy bond-maids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are around you; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids.

45 and from the newcomers who sojourn with you, or who have been born from them in your land. These you shall have as servants,

Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

46 and, by the right of inheritance, you shall transmit them to your posterity, and you shall possess them forever. But do not oppress your brothers, the sons of Israel, by power.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession, they shall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.

47 If the hand of a newcomer or a sojourner will have grown strong among you, and your brother, having become impoverished, will have sold himself to him, or to any of his stock,

And if a sojourner or a stranger shall become rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him shall become poor, and sell himself to the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

48 after the sale, he is able to be redeemed. Whoever is willing among his brothers shall redeem him:

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

49 either the paternal uncle, or the paternal uncle’s son, or his close relative, by blood or by affinity. But if he himself will be able also, he shall redeem himself,

Either his uncle, or his uncle's son may redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin to him of his family, may redeem him; or if he is able, he may redeem himself.

50 considering only the years from the time of his selling until the year of the Jubilee, and calculating the money for which he was sold, according to the number of years and the accounting of a hired hand.

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

51 If there will have been many years which remain until the Jubilee, according to these shall he also repay the price.

If [there shall be] yet many years [behind], according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

52 If few, he shall determine the accounting with him according to the number of years, and he shall repay to the buyer by what is left remaining of the years;

And if there shall remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

53 his wages being charged by what served before. He shall not afflict him violently in your sight.

[And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

54 But if, by these means, he will not be able to be redeemed, then in the year of the Jubilee he shall depart with his children.

And if he shall not be redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, [both] he, and his children with him.

55 For they are my servants, the sons of Israel, whom I led away from the land of Egypt.

For to me the children of Israel [are] servants, they [are] my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.