Leviticus 25

¹And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying:

²Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land that I am giving to you, the land shall rest a sabbath for the LORD.

³Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather its produce.

⁴And in the seventh year a Sabbath of rest shall be for the land, a Sabbath for the LORD; your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune.

⁵The after-growth of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your untended vine you shall not gather — a year of solemn rest it shall be for the land.

⁶And the sabbath of the land shall be for you for food: for you, and for your manservant, and for your maidservant, and for your hired worker, and for your sojourner who dwells with you.

⁷And for your livestock and for the wild creature that is in your land — all its produce shall be for eating.

⁸And you shall count off for yourself seven Sabbaths of years, seven years seven times; and the days of the seven Sabbaths of the years shall be to you forty-nine years.

⁹Then you shall sound the horn of blasting in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound the horn throughout all your land.

¹⁰You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants — a jubilee it shall be for you all; and you shall return, each man to his holding, and each man to his family you shall return.

¹¹It is a Jubilee — the fiftieth year — it shall be for you; you shall not sow, and you shall not reap its after-growth, and you shall not gather its unpruned vines.

¹²For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy for you; from the field you shall eat its produce.

¹³In this jubilee year you shall return, each man to his holding.

¹⁴And when you sell a sale to your neighbor, or buy from the hand of your neighbor, do not oppress a man his brother.

¹⁵According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor; according to the number of years of harvest he shall sell to you.

¹⁶In proportion to the many years you shall increase its purchase price, and in proportion to the few years you shall reduce its purchase price, for it is a number of harvests that he is selling to you.

¹⁷And you shall not oppress a man his fellow, and you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD God of you all.

¹⁸And you shall do my statutes, and my judgments you shall keep and do, and you shall dwell upon the land in security.

¹⁹And the land shall give its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction and dwell in security upon it.

²⁰And if you say, 'What shall we eat in the seventh year? Look! We do not sow, and we do not gather our produce!'

²¹And I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce for three years.

²²And you shall sow in the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old produce until the ninth year, until its harvest comes in; you shall eat the old.

²³And the land shall not be sold in finality, for the land is mine; for sojourners and resident aliens you are with me.

²⁴And throughout all the land of your possession, you shall grant right of redemption for the land.

²⁵If your brother becomes poor and sells from his holding, his nearest kinsman-redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother sold.

²⁶And a man when there is no redeemer for him, and his hand attains and he finds sufficient for his redemption,

²⁷And he shall calculate the years since his sale, and return the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

²⁸But if he does not find sufficient means to repay him, what he sold shall remain in the hand of the one who bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his holding.

²⁹And a man when he sells a house of a dwelling in a walled city, its right of redemption shall be until the end of the year of its sale; days shall be its right of redemption.

³⁰And if it is not redeemed within a full year, the house in the city that has a wall shall stand permanently to the buyer throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the Jubilee.

³¹But the houses of the villages that have no surrounding wall shall be reckoned as open-country land; the right of redemption shall belong to them, and in the jubilee they shall be released.

³²And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession: an everlasting right of redemption shall be for the Levites.

³³And whatever one redeems from the Levites shall go out — the sale of a house and city of his holding — in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their holding in the midst of the people of Israel.

³⁴And the field of the pastureland of their cities shall not be sold, for it is an everlasting possession for them.

³⁵And if your brother becomes poor and his hand totters with you, you shall strengthen him — as a sojourner and a temporary resident — and he shall live with you.

³⁶Do not take from him interest and increase, and you shall fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

³⁷Your money you shall not give to him at interest, and at profit you shall not give your food.

³⁸I am the Lord, God of you all, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be God to you.

³⁹And if your brother becomes poor with you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him do service of a slave.

⁴⁰As a hired worker and as a sojourner he shall be with you; until the year of jubilee he shall serve with you.

⁴¹And he shall go out from you — he and his children with him — and he shall return to his family and to the possession of his fathers he shall return.

⁴²For they are my servants, whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold in a slave sale.

⁴³You shall not rule over him with harshness, and you shall fear your God.

⁴⁴And your manservant and your maidservant who shall be yours — from the nations that are around you, from them you shall buy manservant and maidservant.

⁴⁵And also from the children of the sojourners who are sojourning with you, from them you may buy, and from their family that is with you, who have been born in the land of you all; and they shall be for you as a holding.

⁴⁶And you shall bequeath them to your sons after you to possess as a possession forever; you shall make them serve; but among your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man with his brother, you shall not rule over him with ruthlessness.

⁴⁷And if the hand of a sojourner and temporary resident with you attains, and your brother becomes poor with him, and is sold to a sojourner, a temporary resident with you, or to a member of the clan of a sojourner.

⁴⁸After he was sold, the right of redemption shall belong to him — one of his brothers may redeem him.

⁴⁹Or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him; or any of his close blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if his own means are sufficient, he shall be redeemed.

⁵⁰And he shall reckon with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him until the year of the jubilee; and the silver of his sale shall be according to the number of years — like the days of a hired worker it shall be with him.

⁵¹If there are still many years, according to them he shall return his redemption price from the silver of his purchase.

⁵²And if a little remains in the years until the year of the jubilee, he shall reckon for him — according to his years he shall repay his redemption price.

⁵³Like a hired worker, year by year, he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness before your eyes.

⁵⁴And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go free in the year of the Jubilee, he and his sons with him.

⁵⁵For to me the people of Israel are servants — they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am Yhwh, the God of you all.