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