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Leviticus
25:1-55
The Sabbath Year
1The Lord said to Moses at Mount
Sinai, 2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am
going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord. 3For six
years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their
crops. 4But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a
sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. 5Do not
reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The
land is to have a year of rest. 6Whatever the land yields during the sabbath
year will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the
hired worker and temporary resident who live among you, 7as well as for your
livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be
eaten.
The Year of Jubilee
8“ ‘Count off seven sabbath
years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a
period of forty-nine years. 9Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the
tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet
throughout your land. 10Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each
of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. 11The
fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows
of itself or harvest the untended vines. 12For it is a jubilee and is to be
holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.
13“ ‘In this Year of Jubilee
everyone is to return to their own property.
14“ ‘If you sell land to any of your
own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other. 15You
are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the
Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left
for harvesting crops. 16When the years are many, you are to increase the price,
and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is
really being sold to you is the number of crops. 17Do not take advantage of
each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God.
18“ ‘Follow my decrees and be
careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land. 19Then the land
will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.
20You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or
harvest our crops?” 21I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that
the land will yield enough for three years. 22While you plant during the eighth
year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the
harvest of the ninth year comes in.
23“ ‘The land must not be sold
permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners
and strangers. 24Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must
provide for the redemption of the land.
25“ ‘If one of your fellow Israelites
becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to
come and redeem what they have sold. 26If, however, there is no one to redeem
it for them but later on they prosper and acquire sufficient means to redeem it
themselves, 27they are to determine the value for the years since they sold it
and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back
to their own property. 28But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what
was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee.
It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their
property.
29“ ‘Anyone who sells a house in a
walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During
that time the seller may redeem it. 30If it is not redeemed before a full year
has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer
and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee. 31But
houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging
to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the
Jubilee.
32“ ‘The Levites always have the
right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess. 33So
the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town
they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns
of the Levites are their property among the Israelites. 34But the pastureland
belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.
35“ ‘If any of your fellow
Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help
them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among
you. 36Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that
they may continue to live among you. 37You must not lend them money at interest
or sell them food at a profit. 38I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of
Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
39“ ‘If any of your fellow
Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as
slaves. 40They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among
you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. 41Then they and their
children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to
the property of their ancestors. 42Because the Israelites are my servants, whom
I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves. 43Do not rule over
them ruthlessly, but fear your God.
44“ ‘Your male and female slaves are
to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45You may
also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their
clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46You can
bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves
for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
47“ ‘If a foreigner residing among
you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell
themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan, 48they
retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their
relatives may redeem them: 49An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in
their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.
50They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves
up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the
rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years. 51If many years remain,
they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.
52If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute
that and pay for their redemption accordingly. 53They are to be treated as
workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe
service do not rule over them ruthlessly.
54“ ‘Even if someone is not redeemed
in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of
Jubilee, 55for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants,
whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.
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