Leviticus 25 Parallel Bible

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1	The LORD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai:	The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,	The LORD said to Moses at Mount Sinai,
2	\|Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must 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	Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the 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 in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest--a Sabbath to the LORD. You must not sow 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 must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.	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 have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat--you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays 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	your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land--all its produce will be for you to eat.	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	\|'You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.	“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	You must sound loud horn blasts--in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement--you must sound the horn in your entire 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	So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.	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	That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned 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 that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you--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	\|'In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.	“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	If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.	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	You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left.	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	The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.	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 oppress his fellow citizen, but you must 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	You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep 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	\|'The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, and you may live securely in the land.	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	If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and 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 will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the 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	and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year's produce--old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year's produce, you may eat old produce.	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 must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents 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	In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of 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 impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother 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 man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its 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	he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and 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 has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner 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 man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar 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	If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert 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	The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert 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	As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual 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	Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem--the sale of a house which is his property in a city--must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.	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	Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.	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 brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.	“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	Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must 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 must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for 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 from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan--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 becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.	“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	He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve 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	but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.	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 are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.	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 must not rule over him harshly, but you must 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 female slaves who may belong to you--you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.	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	Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have 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 inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.	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 foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner'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	after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. 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	or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives--his family--may redeem him, or if he prospers 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 must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while 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, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for 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 remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it 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	He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.	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, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, 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 Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from 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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