25:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
25:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.
25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in its fruit;
25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
25:5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy untrimmed vine: [for] it is a year of rest to the land.
25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you; for thee, and for thy male servant, and for thy female servant, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
25:7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that [are] in thy land, shall all the increase of it be food.
25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years to thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to thee forty and nine years.
25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee 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.
25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land to all its inhabitants: it shall be a jubilee to you; and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his family.
25:11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy untrimmed vine.
25:12 For it [is] the jubilee; it shall be holy to you: ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field.
25:13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.
25:14 And if thou shalt sell any to thy neighbour, or buy [any thing] from thy neighbours hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
25:15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to thee:
25:16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price of it, 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 to thee.
25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I [am] the LORD your God.
25:18 Therefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
25:19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell in it in safety.
25:20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
25:21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
25:22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of old fruit until the ninth year; until its fruits come in ye shall eat [of] the old [store].
25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25:25 If thy brother shall have become poor, and have sold [some] of his possession, and if any of his kin shall come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
25:26 And if the man shall have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
25:27 Then let him count the years of the sale of it, and restore the balance to the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession.
25:28 But if he shall not be 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 jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.
25:29 And if a man shall 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.
25:30 And if it shall not be 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 jubilee.
25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no walls around them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
25:32 However the cities of the Levites, [and] the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
25:33 And if a man shall purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in [the year of] jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites [are] their possession among the children of Israel.
25:34 But the field of the common land of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession.
25:35 And if thy brother shall have become poor, and falleth into poverty among you; then thou shalt relieve him: [yea, though he may be] a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
25:36 Take thou no interest of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor lend him thy food for increase.
25:38 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.
25:39 And if thy brother [that dwelleth] by thee shall have become poor, and be sold to thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a slave:
25:40 [But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee to the year of jubilee:
25:41 And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.
25:42 For they [are] my servants, which I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as slaves.
25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
25:44 Both thy male and female slaves, which thou shalt have, [shall be] from the heathen that are around you; from them shall ye buy male and female slaves.
25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that [are] with you, whom they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
25:46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit [them for] a possession; they shall be your slaves for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
25:47 And if a sojourner or a stranger shall become rich by thee, and thy brother [that dwelleth] by him shall become poor, and sell himself to the stranger [or] sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the strangers family:
25:48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
25:49 Either his uncle, or his uncles son, may redeem him, or [any] that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him; or if he is able, he may redeem himself.
25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him to the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
25:51 If [there shall be] yet many years [behind], according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
25:52 And if there shall remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, [and] according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
25:53 [And] as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: [and the other] shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
25:54 And if he shall not be redeemed in these [years], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, [both] he, and his children with him.
25:55 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.