Leviticus 25:21-55 ▼

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.

50 And he shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he was sold to him, until the Year of the Jubilee. And the price of his release shall be according to the number of years; it is according to the time of a hireling for him.

51 If yet there are many years according to them, he shall repay the price of his redemption from the silver with which he was bought.

52 And if but a few years remain until the Year of the Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him according to his years; he shall repay him the price of his redemption.

53 As a hireling year by year he shall be with him. He shall not rule over him with rigor in your eyes.

54 And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of the Jubilee—he and his children with him.

55 For the sons of Israel are servants to Me. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am YHWH your? God.