Leviticus 25

MLV(i) 1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you* come into the land which I give you*, then will the land keep a Sabbath to Jehovah. 3 Six years you will sow your field and six years you will prune your vineyard and gather in the fruits of it, 4 but in the seventh year will be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Jehovah. You will neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard. 5 What grows of itself of your harvest you will not reap and the grapes of your undressed vine you will not gather. It will be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6 And the Sabbath of the land will be for food for you*: for you and for your servant and for your maid and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who travels with you. 7 And for your cattle and for the beasts that are in your land, all the increase of it will be for food.
8 And you will number seven Sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years and there will be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. 9 Then you will send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of atonement you* will send abroad the trumpet throughout all your* land. 10 And you* will sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It will be a jubilee to you* and you* will return every man to his possession and you* will return every man to his family.
11 That fiftieth year will be a jubilee to you*. You* will not sow, neither reap what grows of itself in it, nor gather in it of the undressed vines.
12 For it is a jubilee; it will be holy to you*. You* will eat the increase of it out of the field.
13 In this year of jubilee you* will return every man to his possession. 14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy of your neighbor's hand, you* will not wrong each other. 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee you will buy of your neighbor and according to the number of years of the crops he will sell to you. 16 According to the multitude of the years you will increase the price of it and according to the fewness of the years you will diminish the price of it, for the number of the crops he sells to you.
17 And you* will not wrong each other, but you will fear your God, for I am Jehovah your* God. 18 Therefore you* will do my statutes and keep my ordinances and do them and you* will dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land will yield its fruit and you* will eat your* fill and dwell in safety in it.
20 And if you* will say, What will we eat the seventh year? Behold, we will not sow, nor gather in our increase, 21 then I will command my blessing upon you* in the sixth year and it will bring forth fruit for the three years. 22 And you* will sow the eighth year and eat of the fruits, the old storage, until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you* will eat the old storage.
23 And the land will not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you* are strangers and travelers with me. 24 And in all the land of your* possession you* will grant a redemption for the land. 25 If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his possession, then his kinsman who is next to him will come and will redeem what his brother has sold. 26 And if a man has no one to redeem it and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to redeem it, 27 then let him reckon the years of the sale of it and restore the excess to the man to whom he sold it and he will return to his possession. 28 But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold will remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee. And in the jubilee it will go out and he will return to his possession.
29 And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold. For a full year he will have the right of redemption. 30 And if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city will be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his genealogy. It will not go out in the jubilee. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall all around them will be reckoned with the fields of the country. They may be redeemed and they will go out in the jubilee.
32 Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the Levites may have an everlasting redemption rights. 33 And if a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold and the city of his possession, will go out in the jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. 34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
35 And if your brother becomes poor and his hand shakes toward you, then you will help him; he will live with you as a stranger and a traveler. 36 You take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God, that your brother may live with you. 37 You will not give him your money upon interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38 I am Jehovah 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 And if your brother becomes poor with you and sells himself to you, you will not impose upon him servile labor. 40 He will be with you as a hired servant and as a traveler. He will serve with you to the year of jubilee. 41 Then he will go out from you, he and his sons with him and will return to his own family. And he will return to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as bondmen. 43 You will not rule over him with rigor, but will fear your God.
44 And as for your bondmen and your bondmaids, whom you will have, from the nations that are all around you*, you* will buy bondmen and bondmaids from them. 45 Moreover of the sons of the strangers who journey among you*, you* will buy from them and from their families that are with you*, which they have fathered in your* land and they will be your* possession. 46 And you* will make them an inheritance for your* sons after you*, to hold for a possession. You* will take your* everlasting bondmen from them, but over your* brothers the sons of Israel you* will not rule, one over another, with rigor.
47 And if a stranger or traveler with you becomes rich and your brother becomes poor beside him and sells himself to the stranger or traveler with you, or to the stock of the stranger's family, 48 he may be redeemed after he is sold. One of his brothers may redeem him. 49 Or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him. Or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him. Or if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.
50 And he will 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 will be according to the number of years. He will be with him according to the time of a hired servant. 51 If there is yet many years, according to them he will give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he will reckon with him. He will give back the price of his redemption according to his years. 53 He will be with him as a servant hired year by year. He will not rule with rigor over him in your sight. 54 And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he will go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him. 55 For the sons of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am Jehovah your* God.