Leviticus 25:1-49 ▼

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,

2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them: When you? come into the land that I am giving to you?, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to YHWH.

3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather its fruit.

4 And in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH. Your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune.

5 What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your untended vine you shall not gather. It is a year of complete rest for the land.

6 And the Sabbath of the land to you? shall be food for you, and for your manservant, and for your maidservant, and for your hireling, and for your sojourner sojourning with you,

7 and for your livestock, and for the beast that is in your land. All its produce shall be for food.

8 And you shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years—seven years seven times—and the days of seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you nine and forty years.

9 And the shofar of the Jubilee you shall cause to sound in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, in the Day of the Atonements. You? shall make the shofar to sound throughout all your? land.

10 And you? shall consecrate the year, the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all its dwellers. It shall be a Jubilee for you?, and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.

11 That fiftieth year shall be a year of Jubilee to you?. You? shall not sow, nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather of your untended vine.

12 For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you?. You? shall eat its produce from the field.

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

14 And if you? sell anything to your neighbor or buy from the hand of your neighbor, you? shall not oppress one another.

15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops, he shall sell to you.

16 According to the multitude of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for he is selling to you a number of crops.

17 And you? shall not oppress one another, and you shall fear your God. For I am YHWH your? God.

18 And you? shall observe My statutes, and keep My ordinances and perform them, and you? will dwell in the land in safety.

19 And the land will yield its fruit, and you? will eat your fill and dwell in safety there.

20 Now you? may say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?’

21 And I will command My blessing on you? in the sixth year, and it will bring forth enough produce for three years.

22 And you? shall sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you? shall eat of the old harvest.

23 And the land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine, for you? are strangers and sojourners with Me.

24 And in all the land of your? possession, you? shall grant redemption of the land.

25 If one of your brothers becomes poor and he has sold some of his possession, then the redeemer to him, if he comes to redeem it, he may redeem what his brother sold.

26 And if the man, there is unto him no one to redeem it, and he has found his own hand has attained sufficiency for its redemption,

27 then let him count the years of its sale and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession.

28 But if his hand has not found sufficiency to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of the Jubilee. And it shall be released in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his possession.

29 And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then it shall be that he may redeem it within the completion of a year from its selling; during that year it may be redeemed.

30 But if it is not redeemed within the filling for it of a full year, the house that is within that walled city, then it shall belong forever to the buyer of it throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the Jubilee.

31 And the houses of the villages that have no wall around them, as the fields of the country, shall be counted redeemed; and they may be unto it; they shall be released in the Jubilee.

32 And as for the cities of the Levites, the houses the Levites shall be a redemption of perpetuity in the cities of their possession.

33 And as to him who redeems from the Levites, then both the sale of a house and the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel.

34 And the field of the pastureland of their cities may not be sold, for it is an everlasting possession to them.

35 And if one of your brothers among you becomes poor and his hand has failed, then you shall help him like a sojourner or a stranger, and he may live with you.

36 And you shall not take usury from him or interest; you shall fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

37 You shall lend your silver to him, not for usury at a profit, nor sell him your food.

38 I am YHWH your? God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give to you? the land of Canaan and to be your? God.

39 And if one of your brothers among you becomes poor, and he sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave.

40 He shall be as a hireling and a sojourner with you; he shall serve you until the Year of the Jubilee.

41 And he shall depart from you, and his children with him, and he shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers he shall return.

42 For they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

43 You shall not rule over him with rigor, and you shall fear your God.

44 And your manservant and your maidservant whom you may have are from the nations that are around you?; from them you? may buy a manservant and maidservant.

45 Moreover, the sons of the sojourners who dwell among you?, these you? may buy, and their clans who are with you? that they beget in your? land; and they shall be unto you? for a possession.

46 And you? may take them as an inheritance for your? children after you? to inherit them as a possession forever; in them shall be your? slaves, and regarding your? brothers, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with rigor one over another.

47 And if a sojourner or stranger among you becomes rich, and one of your brothers by him becomes poor and sells himself to the sojourner or stranger among you, or to a member of the family of a sojourner,

48 after he is sold, there is unto him the right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,

49 or his uncle or a son of his uncle may redeem him, or someone from a close relative of his flesh from his family may redeem him, or if his own hand has attained, then he may redeem himself.