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| 1The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, | 1Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, |
| 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD. | 2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD. |
| 3For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, | 3For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops. |
| 4but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. | 4But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard. |
| 5You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. | 5You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest. |
| 6The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, | 6Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you, |
| 7and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food. | 7and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food. |
| 8“You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. | 8And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years. |
| 9Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. | 9Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land. |
| 10And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan. | 10So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan. |
| 11That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. | 11The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines. |
| 12For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field. | 12For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field. |
| 13“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. | 13In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property. |
| 14And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. | 14If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other. |
| 15You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops. | 15You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining. |
| 16If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. | 16You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests. |
| 17You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD your God. | 17Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God. |
| 18“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely. | 18You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land. |
| 19The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it securely. | 19Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land. |
| 20And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ | 20Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’ |
| 21I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. | 21But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years. |
| 22When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives. | 22While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in. |
| 23“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. | 23The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me. |
| 24And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land. | 24Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land. |
| 25“If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. | 25If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold. |
| 26If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, | 26Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land, |
| 27let him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property. | 27he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property. |
| 28But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property. | 28But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property. |
| 29“If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. | 29If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed. |
| 30If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee. | 30If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee. |
| 31But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee. | 31But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. |
| 32As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess. | 32As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess. |
| 33And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel. | 33So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites. |
| 34But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever. | 34But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession. |
| 35“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. | 35Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you. |
| 36Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. | 36Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you. |
| 37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. | 37You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit. |
| 38I 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. | 38I 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 becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: | 39If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor. |
| 40he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. | 40Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. |
| 41Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers. | 41Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers. |
| 42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. | 42Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves. |
| 43You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God. | 43You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God. |
| 44As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. | 44Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them. |
| 45You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. | 45You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property. |
| 46You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly. | 46You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother. |
| 47“If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s clan, | 47If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan, |
| 48then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him, | 48he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him: |
| 49or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself. | 49either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself. |
| 50He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired worker. | 50He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand. |
| 51If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. | 51If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price. |
| 52If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service. | 52If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years. |
| 53He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight. | 53He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight. |
| 54And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee. | 54Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee. |
| 55For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. | 55For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. |
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