The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Leviticus (WEB)
25: 1Yahweh spoke to Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, 25:2Speak to the children of Israel, and tell
them, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath to
Yahweh. 25:3Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and
gather in the fruits of it; 25:4but in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a
Sabbath to Yahweh: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard. 25:5That which
grows of itself of 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. 25:6The Sabbath of the land shall 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 sojourn with you. 25:7For your cattle, and for the animals that are in your land,
shall all the increase of it be for food. 25:8You shall number seven Sabbaths of years to you, seven
times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine
years. 25:9Then shall you send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the
day of atonement shall you send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. 25:10You shall make
the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it: it shall
be a jubilee to you; and you shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every
man to his family. 25:11A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: you shall not sow, neither reap
that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines. 25:12For it is a
jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat the increase of it out of the field. 25:13In this year of
jubilee you shall return every man to his possession. 25:14If you sell anything to your neighbor, or
buy of your neighbor's hand, you shall not wrong one another. 25:15According to the number of
years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor, and according to the number of years of the
crops he shall sell to you. 25:16According 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 the number of the
crops does he sell to you. 25:17You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I
am Yahweh your God. 25:18Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do
them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. 25:19The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat
your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 25:20If you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year?
Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase; 25:21then I will command my blessing on you
in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years. 25:22You 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. 25:23The land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for you are strangers and
sojourners with me. 25:24In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25:25If your brother be grew poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman who is
next to him come, and shall redeem that which his brother has sold. 25:26If a man have no one to
redeem it, and he be grew rich and find sufficient to redeem it; 25:27then let him reckon the years of
the sale of it, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his
possession. 25:28But if he isn't able to get it back for himself, then that which 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 go
out, and he shall return to his possession. 25:29If a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then
he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the right of
redemption. 25:30If 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 go out in the jubilee. 25:31But 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 go out
in the jubilee. 25:32Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession,
may the Levites redeem at any time. 25:33If one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold,
and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites
are their possession among the children of Israel. 25:34But the field of the suburbs of their cities may
not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession. 25:35If your brother has grown poor, and his hand fail
with you; then you shall uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with you. 25:36Take
no interest of him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. 25:37You shall
not give him your money on interest, nor give him your victuals for increase. 25:38I 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. 25:39If your brother has grown poor with you, and sell himself to you; you shall not
make him to serve as a bond-servant. 25:40As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with
you; he shall serve with you to the year of jubilee: 25:41then shall he go out from you, he and his
children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he
return. 25:42For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not
be sold as bondservants. 25:43You shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear your God. 25:44As
for your bondservants, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have; of the nations that are round
about you, of them shall you buy bondservants and bondmaids. 25:45Moreover of the children of the
strangers who sojourn among you, of them shall you buy, and of their families who are with you,
which they have conceived in your land: and they shall be your possession. 25:46You shall make
them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall you take
your bondservants forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one
over another, with rigor. 25:47If a stranger or sojourner with you has grown rich, and your brother
has grown poor beside him, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to the stock
of the stranger's family; 25:48after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brothers may
redeem him; 25:49or 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. 25:50He 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. 25:51If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back
the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 25:52If there remain but few
years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years shall he give
back the price of his redemption. 25:53As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall
not rule with rigor over him in your sight. 25:54If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall go
out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him. 25:55For 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.
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