Leviticus 25 Parallel Bible

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1	The LORD told Moses on Mount Sinai,	The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,	The LORD said to Moses at Mount Sinai,
2	\|Tell the Israelis that when you enter the land that I'm about to give you, you are to let the land observe a Sabbath to the LORD.	“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.	“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD.
3	For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce.	For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits,	For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.
4	But the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of rest for the land—a Sabbath for the LORD. You are not to plant your field or prune your vineyard.	but 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.	But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.
5	You are not to gather what grows from the spilled kernels of your crops. You are not to pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines. Let it be a year of Sabbath for the land.	You 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.	Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.
6	You may take the Sabbath produce of the land for your food—you, your male and maid servants, your hired laborers, and the resident alien with you.	The 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,	Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,
7	The cattle and the wild animals in your land—everything it produces—are for your food.	and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food.	as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.
8	\|Count for yourselves seven years of Sabbaths—seven times seven years. This set of seven weeks of years total 49 years for you.	“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.	“’Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.
9	Sound a horn on the tenth day of the seventh month of this fiftieth year. Likewise, on the Day of Atonement, sound the horn throughout your land.	Then 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.	Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
10	Set aside and consecrate the fiftieth year to declare liberty throughout the land for all of its inhabitants. It is to be a jubilee for you. Every person is to return to his own land that he has inherited. Likewise, every person is to return to his tribe.	And 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.	Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.
11	The fiftieth year is to be a year of jubilee for you. You are not to sow or harvest the spilled kernels that grow of themselves or pick grapes from the untrimmed vines	That 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.	The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.
12	because it's the jubilee—it's sacred for you. But you may eat its produce from the field.	For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.	For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.
13	\|During this year of jubilee, each person is to return to his own land that he has inherited.	“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.	“’In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.
14	So if you had sold property to a neighbor or had acquired land from your neighbor, you are not to cheat one another.	And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.	“’If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.
15	According to the number of years after the jubilee, you may buy from your neighbor. And according to the number of years with crops, he may sell to you.	You 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.	You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.
16	If the number of years after the jubilee is more, increase the selling price. If the number of years after the jubilee is few, decrease its selling price, because he's selling to you according to the potential production volume of the land.	If 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.	When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.
17	No one is to cheat his neighbor. Instead, you are to fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.	You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.	Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.
18	\|Observe my statutes and keep my ordinances. Do them so that you may live securely in the land.	“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.	“’Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.
19	Then the land will yield its fruit and you'll eat to your satisfaction and live securely.	The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it securely.	Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.
20	\|Now if you ask, 'What will we eat during the seventh year? After all, we may not plant or even gather our produce!'	And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’	You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?”
21	I'll command my blessing on you during the sixth year so that it will yield produce for three years!	I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.	I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.
22	That way, you are to sow in the eighth year, eating the produce from the old harvest. Until the ninth year when its produce comes in, you'll eat from the old harvest.\|	When 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.	While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.
23	\|The land is not to be sold with any finality, because the land belongs to me. You're sojourners and travelers with me.	“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.	“’The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.
24	So throughout all of your land inheritance, grant the right of redemption for the land.	And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.	Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
25	\|If your brother becomes so poor that he has to a sell portion of his inheritance, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother has sold.	“If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.	“’If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.
26	If a person doesn't have a kinsman redeemer, but has become rich and found sufficient means for his redemption,	If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,	If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves,
27	then let him account for the years for which it was sold, return the excess to the person to whom it was sold, and then return to his property.	let 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.	they are to determine the value for the years since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.
28	If he's not able to redeem it back for himself, then what he sold is to remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee, it is to be returned so he may return to his property.	But 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.	But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.
29	\|If a person sells a residential house in a walled city, he is to redeem it within the year in which it was sold. He may have right to its redemption for a full year.	“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.	“’Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it.
30	But if it's not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house next to which is a wall is to belong in perpetuity to the one who bought it throughout his generations. It is not to be returned in the jubilee.	If 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.	If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.
31	However, the houses in the villages that don't have walls around them are to be categorized along with the fields of the land—they may be redeemed and returned in the jubilee.	But 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.	But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.
32	Nevertheless, the cities that belong to the descendants of Levi—that is, the houses in the cities that belong to them—are to belong to the descendants of Levi perpetually as part of their right of redemption.	As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.	“’The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.
33	If someone from the descendants of Levi redeems the houses in the cities that they own, they are to be returned in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the descendants of Levi are to remain their property among the Israelis.	And 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.	So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.
34	Also, the open land of their cities is not to be sold, because it is to remain their perpetual inheritance.\|	But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.	But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.
35	\|If your relative becomes so poor that he is indebted to you, then you are to support him. You are to let him live with you just like the resident alien and the traveler.	“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.	“’If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.
36	You are not to take interest or profit from him. Instead, you are to fear your God and let your relative live with you.	Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.	Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.
37	You are not to loan him money with interest or sell him your food at a profit.	You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.	You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.
38	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.	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.	I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
39	\|If your brother with you becomes so poor that he sells himself to you, you are not to make him serve like a bond slave.	“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:	“’If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.
40	Instead, he is to serve with you like a hired servant or a traveler who lives with you, until the year of jubilee.	he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.	They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
41	Then he and his children with him may leave to return to his family and his ancestor's inheritance.	Then 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.	Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.
42	Since they're my servants whom I've brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.	For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.	Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.
43	You are not to rule over them with harshness. You are to fear your God.\|	You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.	Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.
44	\|As for your male and maid slaves who will be with you, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations.	As 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.	“’Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.
45	You may also buy from resident aliens who live among you and their families who are with you, whom they fathered in your land. They may become your property.	You 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.	You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.
46	You may give them as inherited property to your children after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israeli with harshness.	You 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.	You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
47	\|If a resident alien or traveler becomes rich, but your relative who lives next to him is so poor that he sells himself to that resident alien or traveler among you or to a member of the resident alien's family,	“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,	“’If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan,
48	he has the right to be redeemed after he sells himself. One of his brothers may redeem him.	then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him,	they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:
49	His uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him or any blood relative from his tribe may redeem him. If he becomes rich, then he may redeem himself.	or 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.	An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.
50	\|He is to bring an accounting to the one who bought him, starting from the year he had sold himself until the year of jubilee. The price of his sale is to correspond to the number of years comparable to the time a hired servant stays with him.	He 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.	They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.
51	If there are still many years left, he is to refund the cost of his redemption.	If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.	If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.
52	But if only a few years are left until the year of jubilee, he is to bring an accounting of the years that he is to refund for his redemption.	If 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.	If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.
53	Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity.	He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.	They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.
54	If he isn't redeemed by these, then he is to be set free in the year of jubilee—he and his children with him—	And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee.	“’Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,
55	because the Israelis are my servants. They're my servants, since I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.\|	For 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.	for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
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