Leviticus 25

1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

2 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.

Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

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

For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

4 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.

But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

5 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.

That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

6 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,

And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

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

And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

8 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.

And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

9 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.

Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land.

10 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;

And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

11 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.

Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.

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

For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

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

In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.

14 And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

15 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.

Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

16 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.

If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

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

And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

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

So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat and be satisfied, and dwell therein securely.

And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

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

And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years;

Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

22 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.

And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

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

No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

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

Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

25 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.

If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

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

And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

27 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.

Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

28 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.

But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

29 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.

And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

30 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.

And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

31 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.

But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

32 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.

But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

33 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.

And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

34 And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

35 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.

And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

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

Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

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

Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

38 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.

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.

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

And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

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

But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

41 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.

Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

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

For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

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

Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

44 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.

But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

45 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.

And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

46 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.

And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

47 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,

And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

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

After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

49 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.

Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.

50 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.

And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

51 If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption [money] out of the money that he was bought for;

If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

52 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].

And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

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

And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

54 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.

And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

55 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.

For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.