Leviticus 25:1-22 ▼

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses, in Mount Sinai, saying,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land has kept a Sabbath to YHWH.

3 [For] six years you sow your field, and [for] six years you prune your vineyard, and have gathered its increase,

4 and in the seventh year is a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH; you do not sow your field, and you do not prune your vineyard;

5 you do not reap the spontaneous growth of your harvest, and you do not gather the grapes of your separated thing; it is a year of rest for the land.

6 And the Sabbath [increase] of the land has been for you for food, to you, and to your manservant, and to your handmaid, and to your hired worker, and to your settler, who are sojourning with you;

7 and for your livestock, and for the beast which [is] in your land, is all its increase for [them] to eat.

8 And you have numbered seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven Sabbaths of years have been forty-nine years for you,

9 and you have caused a horn of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; in the Day of Atonements you cause a horn to pass over through all your land;

10 and you have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and you have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; it is a Jubilee for you; and you have turned back each to his possession; indeed, you return each to his family.

11 It [is] a Jubilee, the fiftieth year, it is a year for you; you do not sow, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;

12 for it [is] a Jubilee—it is holy to you; you eat its increase from the field;

13 you return each to his possession in this Year of the Jubilee.

14 And when you sell anything to your fellow, or buy from the hand of your fellow, you do not oppress one another;

15 you buy from your fellow by the number of years after the Jubilee; he sells to you by the number of the years of increase;

16 you multiply its price according to the multitude of the years, and you diminish its price according to the fewness of the years; for [it is] a number of increases [that] he is selling to you;

17 and you do not oppress one another, and you have been afraid of your God; for I [am] your God YHWH.

18 And you have done My statutes, and you keep My judgments, and have done them, and you have dwelt on the land confidently,

19 and the land has given its fruit, and you have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.

20 And when you say, What do we eat in the seventh year, behold, do we not sow, nor gather our increase?

21 Then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it has made the increase for three years;

22 and you have sown [in] the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; you eat the old until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase.