^{1 Ref} And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

^{2 Ref} Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

^{3 Ref} For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

^{4 Ref} But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

^{5 Ref} That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

^{6 Ref} And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

⁷ And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

^{8 Ref} And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

^{9 Ref} Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land.

^{10 Ref} And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

^{11 Ref} Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.

^{12 Ref} For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

^{13 Ref} In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.

^{14 Ref} And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

^{15 Ref} Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

^{16 Ref} If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

^{17 Ref} And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

^{18 Ref} So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

^{19 Ref} And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

^{20 Ref} And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

^{21 Ref} Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

^{22 Ref} And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

^{23 Ref} No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

^{24 Ref} Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

^{25 Ref} If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

^{26 Ref} And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

²⁷ Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

^{28 Ref} But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

²⁹ And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

³⁰ And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

^{31 Ref} But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

^{32 Ref} But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

^{33 Ref} And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

^{34 Ref} But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

^{35 Ref} And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

^{36 Ref} Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

³⁷ Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

^{38 Ref} I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.

^{39 Ref} And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

^{40 Ref} But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

^{41 Ref} Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

^{42 Ref} For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

^{43 Ref} Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

^{44 Ref} But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

^{45 Ref} And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

^{46 Ref} And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

^{47 Ref} And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

^{48 Ref} After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

^{49 Ref} Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.

^{50 Ref} And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

⁵¹ If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

⁵² And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

^{53 Ref} And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

^{54 Ref} And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

^{55 Ref} For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

^{1 Ref} Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,

^{2 Ref} "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 Yahweh.

^{3 Ref} Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;

^{4 Ref} but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

^{5 Ref} What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

^{6 Ref} 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 cattle also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all the increase of it be for food.

^{8 Ref} "'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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} 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 Ref} For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

^{13 Ref} "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

^{14 Ref} "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

^{15 Ref} 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 Ref} According to the length of the years you shall increase the price of it, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish the price of it; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

^{17 Ref} You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

^{18 Ref} "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

^{19 Ref} The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

^{20 Ref} If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

^{21 Ref} then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.

^{22 Ref} You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

^{23 Ref} "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

^{24 Ref} In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

^{25 Ref} "'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 Ref} 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 the sale of it, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

^{28 Ref} 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: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his propery.

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 Ref} But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

^{32 Ref} "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

^{33 Ref} 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 Ref} But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

^{35 Ref} "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

^{36 Ref} 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 Ref} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

^{39 Ref} "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

^{40 Ref} As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

^{41 Ref} 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 Ref} For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

^{43 Ref} You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

^{44 Ref} "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

^{45 Ref} Moreover of the children of the strangers who sojourn 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 Ref} You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

^{47 Ref} "'If a stranger or sojourner 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 Ref} after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

^{49 Ref} 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 Ref} He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself 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 a hired servant shall he be with him.

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 Ref} As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

^{54 Ref} "'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 Ref} For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

^{1 Ref} And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in mount Sinai, saying,

^{2 Ref} `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, then hath the land kept a sabbath to Jehovah.

^{3 Ref} `Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,

^{4 Ref} and in the seventh year a sabbath of rest is to the land, a sabbath to Jehovah; thy field thou dost not sow, and thy vineyard thou dost not prune;

^{5 Ref} the spontaneous growth of thy harvest thou dost not reap, and the grapes of thy separated thing thou dost not gather, a year of rest it is to the land.

^{6 Ref} `And the sabbath of the land hath been to you for food, to thee, and to thy man-servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to thy settler, who are sojourning with thee;

⁷ and to thy cattle, and to the beast which `is' in thy land, is all thine increase for food.

^{8 Ref} `And thou hast numbered to thee seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years have been to thee nine and forty years,

^{9 Ref} and thou hast caused a trumpet of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month; in the day of the atonements ye do cause a trumpet to pass over through all your land;

^{10 Ref} and ye have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and ye have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; a jubilee it is to you; and ye have turned back each unto his possession; yea, each unto his family ye do turn back.

^{11 Ref} `A jubilee it `is', the fiftieth year, a year it is to you; ye sow not, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;

^{12 Ref} for a jubilee it `is', holy it is to you; out of the field ye eat its increase;

^{13 Ref} in the year of this jubilee ye turn back each unto his possession.

^{14 Ref} `And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

^{15 Ref} by the number of years after the jubilee thou dost buy from thy fellow; by the number of the years of increase he doth sell to thee;

^{16 Ref} according to the multitude of the years thou dost multiply its price, and according to the fewness of the years thou dost diminish its price; for a number of increases he is selling to thee;

^{17 Ref} and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I `am' Jehovah your God.

^{18 Ref} `And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,

^{19 Ref} and the land hath given its fruit, and ye have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.

^{20 Ref} `And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather our increase?

^{21 Ref} then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it hath made the increase for three years;

^{22 Ref} and ye have sown the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase, ye do eat the old.

^{23 Ref} `And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land `is' Mine, for sojourners and settlers `are' ye with Me;

^{24 Ref} and in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to the land.

^{25 Ref} `When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

^{26 Ref} and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient `for' its redemption,

²⁷ then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold `it', and he hath returned to his possession.

^{28 Ref} `And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.

²⁹ `And when a man selleth a dwelling-house `in' a walled city, then hath his right of redemption been until the completion of a year from its selling; days -- is his right of redemption;

³⁰ and if it is not redeemed until the fulness to him of a perfect year, then hath the house which `is' in a walled city been established to extinction to the buyer of it, to his generations; it goeth not out in the jubilee;

^{31 Ref} and a house of the villages which have no wall round about, on the field of the country is reckoned; redemption is to it, and in the jubilee it goeth out.

^{32 Ref} `As to cities of the Levites -- houses of the cities of their possession -- redemption age-during is to the Levites;

^{33 Ref} as to him who redeemeth from the Levites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession have gone out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel.

^{34 Ref} And a field, a suburb of their cities, is not sold; for a possession age-during it `is' to them.

^{35 Ref} `And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

^{36 Ref} thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

³⁷ thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

^{38 Ref} I `am' Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become your God.

^{39 Ref} `And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

^{40 Ref} as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, --

^{41 Ref} then he hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.

^{42 Ref} `For they `are' My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold `with' the sale of a servant;

^{43 Ref} thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy God.

^{44 Ref} `And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast `are' of the nations who `are' round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,

^{45 Ref} and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who `are' with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;

^{46 Ref} and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy `for' a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

^{47 Ref} `And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth `riches', and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

^{48 Ref} after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth redeem him,

^{49 Ref} or his uncle, or a son of his uncle, doth redeem him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, doth redeem him, or -- his own hand hath attained -- then he hath been redeemed.

^{50 Ref} `And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.

⁵¹ `If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption `money', from the money of his purchase.

⁵² `And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he hath reckoned with him, according to his years he doth give back his redemption `money';

^{53 Ref} as an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.

^{54 Ref} `And if he is not redeemed in these `years', then he hath gone out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

^{55 Ref} For to Me `are' the sons of Israel servants; My servants they `are', whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt; I, Jehovah, `am' your God.