1 Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai, 2 “Speak to the children
of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you,
then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh. 3 Six years you shall sow
your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its
fruits; 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest
for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your
vineyard. 5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and
the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of
solemn rest for the land. 6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for
you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant,
and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. 7 For your
livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all the
increase of it be for food.
8 “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years;
and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even
forty-nine years. 9 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. 10 You shall make the fiftieth year
holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It
shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own
property, and each of you shall return to his family. 11 That
fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow,
neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its
increase out of the field.
13 “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his
property.
14 “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor,
you shall not wrong one another. 15 According to the number of years
after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number
of years of the crops he shall sell to you. 16 According to the length of
the years you shall increase the price of it, and according to the shortness
of the years you shall diminish the price of it; for he is selling the number
of the crops to you. 17 You shall not wrong one another; but you
shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
18 “‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and
do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 The land shall
yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in
safety. 20 If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold,
we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;” 21 then I will command my
blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the
three years. 22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits,
the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall
eat the old store.
23 “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for
you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. 24 In all the land
of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 “‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then
his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother
has sold. 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous
and finds sufficient means to redeem it; 27 then let him reckon the years
since the sale of it, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it;
and he shall return to his property. 28 But if he isn’t able to get it
back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who
has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be
released, and he shall return to his property.
29 “‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem
it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have
the right of redemption. 30 If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a
full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in
perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be
released in the Jubilee. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no
wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they
may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
32 “‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of
their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. 33 The Levites may
redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall
be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are
their possession among the children of Israel. 34 But the field of the
suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual
possession.
35 “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support him among
you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live
with you. 36 Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that
your brother may live among you. 37 You shall not lend him your money at
interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38 I am Yahweh your God, who
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan,
and to be your God.
39 “‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you;
you shall not make him to serve as a slave. 40 As a hired servant, and as
a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of
Jubilee: 41 then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him,
and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves. 43 You shall not rule over him
with harshness, but shall fear your God.
44 “‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the
nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female
slaves. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn among
you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which
they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.
46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to
hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but
over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over
another, with harshness.
47 “‘If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother
beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner
living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family; 48 after he is
sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him; 49 or his
uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to
him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem
himself. 50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he
sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall
be according to the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant
shall he be with him. 51 If there are yet many years, according to them he
shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was
bought for. 52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee,
then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall
give back the price of his redemption. 53 As a servant hired year by year
shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your
sight. 54 If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be
released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.
55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my
servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your
God.
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