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1 The
LORD said to
Moses on 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 the LORD.
3 You
shall sow your
field six years,
and you shall
prune your
vineyard six years,
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
the LORD. You
shall not sow
your field or
prune your
vineyard.
5 What
grows of itself in
your harvest you
shall not reap,
and you shall
not gather the
grapes of your
undressed vine. 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 its increase
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
its price, and
according to
the shortness of
the years you
shall diminish its
price; 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 the
LORD 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 bear
fruit for the
three years.
22 You
shall sow the
eighth year,
and eat of the
fruits from 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
its sale, 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.
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
around them shall
be accounted for
with the fields
of the country:
they may be
redeemed, and they
shall be released
in the Jubilee.
32 “ ‘Nevertheless,
in the cities
of the Levites,
the Levites may
redeem the houses
in the cities
of their possession
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 pasture lands
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 himself
among you, then
you shall uphold
him. He shall
live with you
like an alien
and a temporary
resident.
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 the LORD
your God, who
brought you 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 temporary
resident, 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 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 from
the nations that
are around you,
from them you
may buy male
and female slaves.
45 Moreover,
of the children
of the aliens
who live 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 you may
take your slaves
forever, but over
your brothers the
children of Israel
you shall not
rule, one over
another, with harshness.
47 “ ‘If
an alien
or temporary resident
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.
The price of
his sale shall
be according to
the number of
years; he shall
be with him
according to the
time of a
hired servant.
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
out of the land
of Egypt. I
am the LORD
your God.