“1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto
the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land
which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy
vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year
shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou
shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which
groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither
gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto
the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee,
and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and
for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and
for the beast that [are] in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be
meat.”
“8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven
times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be
unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of
the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day
of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be
a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,
and ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubile shall that
fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which
groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine
undressed. 12 For it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye
shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13 In the year of this
jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou
sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour’s
hand, ye shall not oppress one another: 15 According to the number of
years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according
unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: 16
According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price
thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the
price of it: for [according] to the number [of the years] of the fruits
doth he sell unto thee. 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another;
but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God. 18 Wherefore
ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye
shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield her
fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And
if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall
not sow, nor gather in our increase: 21 Then I will command my blessing
upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three
years. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat [yet] of old fruit
until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old
[store].”
“23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for
ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of
your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy
brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away [some] of his possession, and
if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his
brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be
able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof,
and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may
return unto his possession. 28 But if he be not able to restore [it] to
him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath
bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out,
and he shall return unto his possession. 29 And if a man sell a dwelling
house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after
it is sold; [within] a full year may he redeem it. 30 And if it be not
redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that [is] in
the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it
throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. 31 But
the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be
counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they
shall go out in the jubile. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the
Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the
Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites,
then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go
out in [the year of] jubile: 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 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay
with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he be] a stranger,
or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 36 Take thou no usury of
him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy
victuals for increase. 38 I [am] the LORD your God, which brought you
forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to
be your God.”
“39 And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee be waxen poor, and be
sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40
[But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee,
[and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: 41 And [then] shall he
depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return
unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he
return. 42 For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the
land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 Thou shalt not rule
over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bondmen, and
thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, [shall be] of the heathen that are
round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover
of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them
shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, which they
begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall
take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit
[them for] a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over
your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another
with rigour. 47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy
brother [that dwelleth] by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the
stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s
family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his
brethren may redeem him: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may
redeem him, or [any] that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may
redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall
reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him
unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according
unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant
shall it be with him. 51 If [there be] yet many years [behind],
according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out
of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few
years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, [and]
according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his
redemption. 53 [And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him:
[and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 54 And
if he be not redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year
of jubile, [both] he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the
children of Israel [are] servants; they [are] my servants whom I brought
forth out of the land of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.” (Le 25:1-55
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