Leviticus 25

CLV(i) 1 Yahweh 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, the land will pause for a sabbath to Yahweh. 3 Six years shall you sow your field, and six years shall you prune your vineyard and gather its yield. 4 Yet in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of cessation for the land, a sabbath to Yahweh. Your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune;" 5 The self-sown of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your untrimmed vines you shall not pick. A year of cessation shall it be for the land. 6 Yet the sabbath yield of the land you will come to have as food for you, for your servant and for your maidservant, for your hireling and for your guest, those sojourning with you, 7 for your domestic beast and for the wild animal which are in your land; all its yield shall be for eating. 8 You will count off for yourselves seven sabbaths of years, that is, seven years seven times, so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years will come to be for you forty-nine years. 9 Then you will make the trumpet blast pass over all your land in the seventh month on the tenth of the month. On the day of propitiatory shelters you shall make the trumpet pass over all your land. 10 And you will hallow the year, the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all its dwellers. A jubilee year shall this one be for you; each of you will return to his holding, and each of you shall return to his family. 11 A jubilee year shall this one, the fiftieth year, be for you; you shall not sow nor shall you reap its self-sown, neither shall you pick its untrimmed vines, 12 for this is the jubilee. Holy shall it be for you:directly from the field you shall eat its yield. 13 In this year of the jubilee each of you shall return to his holding. 14 So in case you should sell land-use in a sale to your companion or buy it from the hand of your companion, you must not tyrannize, a man over his brother. 15 By the number of years after the jubilee shall you buy land-use from your companion. By the number of the years of yield shall he sell it to you. 16 Corresponding to the great number of years shall you increase its acquisition price, and corresponding to the few number of years shall you decrease its acquisition price, because it is the number of yields he is selling to you. 17 So you should not tyrannize, a man over his companion. You will fear your Elohim:for I, Yahweh, am your Elohim. 18 Observe My statutes and My judgments; you shall guard yourselves and keep them; then you may dwell on the land in trust. 19 The land will give its fruit, and you will eat to satisfaction and dwell in trust on it. 20 Since you might say:What shall we eat in the seventh year? Behold, we may not sow nor gather our yield!" 21 I will enjoin My blessing for you in the sixth year, and it will give the yield for three years. 22 While you sow in the eighth year you will eat from the yield in storage until the ninth year. Until its yield comes in you shall eat from the storage. 23 The land-use, it shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is Mine, since you are sojourners and guests with Me. 24 So with all your holding of land, a redemption shall you give for the land. 25 In case your brother is reduced to poverty and sells use of some of his holding, then his redeemer, one near to him, will come and redeem his brother's sold land-use. 26 And in case a man comes to have no redeemer yet his own hand can afford it so that he finds sufficient means for its redemption, 27 then he will compute the years of its sale and restore the superfluity to the man to whom he sold it; then he will return to his holding. 28 Yet if he does not find his means sufficient to restore it to him then his sold land-use will come into the hand of the one buying it until the year of the jubilee. Then it will come forth in the jubilee, and he will return to his holding. 29 In case a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city then his right of redemption will come to be until the end of the year after its sale; only in these days will his right of redemption come to be. 30 Yet if it should not be redeemed until its full year has come to end, then the house (which is in the city that has walls) will belong in perpetuity to the one buying it throughout his generations; it shall not come forth in the jubilee. 31 Yet the houses of the hamlets, which have no wall round about, shall be reckoned along with the fields of the land. Redemption shall come for it, and in the jubilee it shall come forth. 32 Yet for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their holdings, redemption shall be eonian for Levites. 33 When one from the Levites redeems, then the sold house, his city holding, will come forth in the jubilee, for the houses of the Levitical cities, these are their holdings in the midst of the sons of Israel. 34 Yet the use of the common field of their cities may not be sold, for it is an eonian holding for them. 35 In case your brother is reduced to poverty, and his hand slips beside you, then make him steadfast as if he were sojourner or guest, so that your brother may live beside you. 36 Do not take advance interest or accrued interest from him. You will fear your Elohim, so that your brother be alive beside you. 37 Your silver you shall not give to him on advance interest, nor give your food on accrued interest. 38 I, Yahweh, am your Elohim, Who brought you forth from the land of Egypt to give to you the land of Canaan, so as to be your Elohim. 39 In case your brother who is beside you is reduced to poverty and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve the service of a servant. 40 As a hireling, as a guest shall he be beside you; until the year of the jubilee shall he serve for you. 41 Then he will go forth from you, he and his sons with him, and return to his family; and to the holding of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are My servants, whom I brought forth from the land of Egypt. They shall not sell themselves as in servant sales. 43 You shall not hold sway over him with rigor:you will fear your Elohim. 44 As for your servants and your maidservants who become yours from the nations which are round about you, from them you may buy servants or maidservants. 45 Also from the sons of guests sojourning among you, from them you may buy and from their families who are among you, whom they begot in your land; they will belong to your holding. 46 You may entail them as an allotment to your sons after you together with the tenancy of the holding. For the eon you may make them serve. Yet over your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man over his brother, you shall not hold sway over them with rigor. 47 In case the hand of a sojourner or guest beside you can afford it, and your brother beside him is reduced to poverty and sells himself to the sojourner or guest beside you or to the offspring of the sojourner's family, 48 after he has sold himself, redemption may he come to have:one of his brothers may redeem him. 49 Either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one, kin to his flesh, of his family may redeem him, or if his own hand can afford it then he may redeem himself. 50 He will compute with his buyer the total from the year he sold himself to him until the year of the jubilee. And the silver for his release sale will be with regard to the number of years, as though he were for the days of a hireling under him. 51 Should there still be many years, corresponding to them he shall refund for his redemption out of the silver of his buying price. 52 And if few years remain until the year of jubilee then he will compute the amount due to him corresponding to his remaining years, and he shall refund it for his redemption. 53 (As a hireling, year by year shall he be with him; he shall not hold sway over him with rigor before your eyes.. 54 If he is not being redeemed in any of these ways then he will go forth in the year of the jubilee, he and his sons with him. 55 For to Me the sons of Israel are servants; they are My servants whom I brought forth from the land of Egypt:I, Yahweh, am your Elohim.