Leviticus 25

1 And YHWH spoke to Moses, in Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you will say to them: When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land will keep a Sabbath to YHWH. 3 For six years you will sow your field, and for six years you will prune your vineyard, and will gather its increase, 4 and in the seventh year will be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to YHWH. You will not sow your field, and you will not prune your vineyard. 5 You will not reap the spontaneous growth of your harvest, and you will not gather the grapes of your separated thing. It will be a year of rest for the land. 6 And the Sabbath increase of the land will be 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 are in your land, is all its increase for them to eat. 8 And you will number seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven Sabbaths of years will be 49 years for you, 9 and you will caused a horn of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month. In the Day of Atonements you will cause a horn to pass over through all your land. 10 And you will hallow the year, the fiftieth year. And you will proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you. And you will turn back each to his possession. Indeed, you will return each to his family. 11 It will be a Jubilee, the fiftieth year, it will be a year for you. You will not sow, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things. 12 For it will be a Jubilee—it will be holy to you. You will eat its increase from the field. 13 You will 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 will not oppress one another. 15 You will buy from your fellow by the number of years after the Jubilee. He will sell 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 will be a number of increases that he is selling to you. 17 And you will not oppress one another, and you will be afraid of your God. For I am your God YHWH. 18 And you will do My statutes, and you will keep My judgments, and will do them, and you will stay on the land confidently, 19 and the land will give its fruit, and you will eat to satiety, and stay confidently on it. 20 And when you say, What do we eat in the seventh year, look, do we not sow, nor gather our increase? 21 Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will make the increase for three years. 22 And you will sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old increase. You will eat the old until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase. 23 And the land will not be sold—to extinction, for the land is Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me. 24 And in all the land of your possession you will give a redemption for the land. 25 When your brother becomes poor, and has sold his possessions, then his redeemer who is near to him will come, and he will redeem the sold thing of his brother. 26 And when a man has no redeemer, and his own hand has attained means, and he has found it as sufficient for its redemption, 27 then he will reckon the years of its sale, and will give back that which is over to the man to whom he sold it, and he will return to his possession. 28 And if his hand has not found sufficiency to give back to him, then his sold thing will be in the hand of him who buys it until the Year of Jubilee. And it will gone out in the Jubilee, and he will return to his possession. 29 And when a man sells a residence in a walled city, then his right of redemption will be until the completion of a year from its selling. His right of redemption will be during these days. 30 And if it is not redeemed to him until the fullness of a perfect year, then the house which is in a walled city will be established to extinction to him buying it, throughout his generations. It will not go out in the Jubilee. 31 And a house of the villages which have no surrounding wall will be reckoned on the field of the country. There will be redemption for it, and it goes out in the Jubilee. 32 As for cities of the Levites—houses of the cities of their possession—continuous redemption will be for the Levites. 33 As for him who redeems from the Levites, then the sale of a house (and in the city of his possession) will gone out in the Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the middle of the sons of Israel. 34 And a field, a outskirt of their cities, will not be sold. For it will be a continuous possession for them. 35 And when your brother has become poor, and his hand has failed with you, then you will keep hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he will live with you. 36 You will take no usury or increase from him. And you will be afraid of your God. And your brother will live with you. 37 You will not give your money to him in usury, and you will not give your food for increase. 38 I am your God YHWH, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt to give the land of Canaan to you, to become your God. 39 And when your brother becomes poor with you, and he has been sold to you, you will not lay servile service on him. 40 He is as a hired worker and as a settler with you. He will serve with you until the Year of the Jubilee— 41 Then he will gone out from you, he and his sons with him, and will turn back to his family. And he will turn back to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they will not be sold with the sale of a servant. 43 You will not rule over him with rigor, and you will be afraid of your God. 44 And your manservant and your handmaid whom you have will be from the nations who are around you. You will buy manservant and handmaid from them, 45 and also from the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, you will buy from them, and from their families who are with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they will be to you for a possession. 46 And you will take them for an inheritance for your sons after you, to inherit for a possession. You will lay service on them to a distant age, but on your brothers, the sons of Israel, each with his brother—you will not rule over him with rigor. 47 And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with you attains riches, and your brother with him has become poor, and he has been sold to a sojourner, a settler with you, or to the root of the family of a sojourner, 48 after he has been sold, there will be a right of redemption for him. One of his brothers will redeem him, 49 or his uncle or a son of his uncle will redeem him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, will redeem him, or if his own hand has attained means then he will be redeemed. 50 And he will reckon with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him until the Year of Jubilee, and the money of his sale will be by the number of years. It will be with him as the days of a hired worker. 51 If many years still remain, he will give back his redemption money according to them, from the money of his purchase. 52 And if few are left of the years until the Year of Jubilee, then he will reckon with him and give back his redemption money according to his years. 53 As a hired worker, year by year, he will be with him, and he will not rule him with rigor before your eyes. 54 And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he will gone out in the Year of Jubilee, he and his sons with him. 55 For the sons of Israel are servants to Me. They are My servants whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt. I am your God YHWH.”


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