Leviticus 25:1-27 ▼

1 And Jehovah will speak to Moses, in mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When ye shall come into the land which I gave to you, the land shall rest a Sabbath to Jehovah.

3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather its produce;

4 And in the seventh year, a Sabbath of rest shall be to the land, a Sabbath to Jehovah: thy field thou shalt not sow, and thy vineyard thou shalt not prune.

5 The overflowing of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy separation thou shalt not gather: a year of the Sabbaths shall be to the land.

6 And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food; to thee and to thy servant, and to thy maid, and to thy hireling, and to thine inhabitant sojourning with thee.

7 And to thy cattle, and to the beast which is in thy land shall all its produce be for food.

8 And number to thee seven Sabbaths of years, seven years, seven times; and they shall be to thee the days of seven Sabbaths of years, nine and forty years.

9 And cause the trumpet of shouts of joy to pass over: in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, in the day of expiations, shall ye cause the trumpet to pass over in all your land.

10 And consecrate the year, the fiftieth year, and call a letting go free in the land, to all inhabiting it: it shall be a jubilee to you; and return ye each to his possession, and each to his family shall ye turn back.

11 It a jubilee the year, the fiftieth year shall be to you: ye shall not sow and ye shall not reap its overflowings, and ye shall not gather its separations.

12 For it a jubilee; holy shall it be to you: from the field ye shall eat its produce.

13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall turn back each to his possession.

14 And when ye shall sell a selling to thy neighbor, or buying of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress each his brother.

15 According to the number of years after the jubilee, thou shalt buy from thy neighbor; according to the number of the years produce shall he sell to thee.

16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase his purchase, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish his purchase: for from the numbering of the produce, he sold to thee.

17 And ye shall not oppress each his neighbor; and thou shalt fear thy God: for I Jehovah your God.

18 And ye did my laws and watched my judgments and did them, and dwelt upon the land in confidence.

19 And the land gave her fruits, and ye ate to satisfying, and ye dwelt in confidence upon it.

20 And when ye shall say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow and we shall not gather our produce.

21 And I commanded my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it made the produce for three years.

22 And ye sowed the eighth year, and ate from the old produce till the ninth year; till its produce came in ye shall eat the old.

23 And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall give a redemption to the land.

25 When thy brother shall be poor, and he sold his possession, and he being near to him came to redeem it, and he redeemed the selling of his brother.

26 And when to a man there shall be none to him to redeem, and his hand attained and found a sufficiency to redeem it;

27 And he reckoned the years of his selling, and he returned that remaining over to the man to whom he sold it, and turned back to his possession.