25:1 And Yehovah spoke to Moses in the
mount Sina, saying,
25:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whensoever
ye shall have entered into the land, which I give to you, then the land
shall rest which I give to you, for its sabbaths to Yehovah.
25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shall prune thy
vine, and gather in its fruit.
25:4 But in the seventh year [shall be] a sabbath, it shall be a rest to the
land, a sabbath to Yehovah: thou shalt not sow thy field, and thou shalt
not prune thy vine.
25:5 And thou shalt not gather the spontaneous produce of thy field, and
thou shalt not gather fully the grapes of thy dedication: it shall be a year
of rest to the land.
25:6 And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy
man-servant, and for thy maid-servant, and thy hireling, and the stranger
that abides with thee.
25:7 And for thy cattle, and for the wild beats that are in thy land, shall
every fruit of it be for food.
25:8 And thou shalt reckon to thyself seven sabbaths of years, seven times
seven years; and they shall be to thee seven weeks of years, nine and forty
years.
25:9 In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall make a
proclamation with the sound of a trumpet in all your land; on the day of
atonement ye shall make a proclamation with a trumpet in all your land.
25:10 And ye shall sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and ye shall
proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a
year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his
possession, and ye shall go each to his family.
25:11 This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fiftieth
year: ye shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the
land, neither shall ye gather it dedicated fruits.
25:12 For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, ye shall eat
its fruits off the fields.
25:13 In the year of the release [even] the jubilee of it, shall [each] one
return to his possession.
25:14 And if thou shouldest sell a possession to thy neighbour, or if thou
shouldest buy of thy neighbour, let not a man oppress his neighbour.
25:15 According to the number of years after the jubilee shalt thou buy of
thy neighbour, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he sell
to thee.
25:16 According as [there may be] a greater number of years he shall
increase [the value of] his possession, and according as [there may be] a
less number of years he shall lessen [the value of] his possession; for
according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to thee.
25:17 Let not a man oppress his neighbour, and thou shalt fear Yehovah thy
Elohim: I am Yehovah thy Elohim.
25:18 And ye shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do ye
observe them, and ye shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land.
25:19 And the land shall yield her increase, and ye shall eat to fullness,
and shall dwell securely in it.
25:20 And if ye should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do
not sow nor gather in our fruits?
25:21 Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land
shall produce its fruits for three years.
25:22 And ye shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the ninth
year: until its fruit come, ye shall eat old fruits of the old.
25:23 And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine,
because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.
25:24 And in every land of your possession, ye shall allow ransoms for the
land.
25:25 And if thy brother who is with thee be poor, and should have sold
[part] of his possession, and his kinsman who is nigh to him come, then he
shall redeem the possession which his brother has sold.
25:26 And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he
find sufficient money, [even] his ransom;
25:27 then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what
is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.
25:28 But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should
restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have
them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release,
and the owner shall return to his possession.
25:29 And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then
there shall be the ransom of it, until [the time] is fulfilled: its time of
ransom shall be a full year.
25:30 And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full
year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him
that bought it, throughout his generations; and it shall not go out in the
release.
25:31 But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them,
shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always be
redeemable, and they shall go out in the release.
25:32 And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their
possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.
25:33 And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their
sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because the
houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the
children of Israel.
25:34 And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because
this is their perpetual possession.
25:35 And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and he fail in
resources with thee, thou shalt help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and
thy brother shall live with thee.
25:36 Thou shalt not receive from him interest, nor increase: and thou shalt
fear thy Elohim: I [am] Yehovah: and thy brother shall live with thee.
25:37 Thou shalt not lend thy money to him at interest, and thou shalt not
lend thy meat to him to be returned with increase.
25:38 I [am] Yehovah your Elohim, who brought you out o the land of Egypt, to
give you the land of Chanaan, so as to be your Elohim.
25:39 And if thy brother by thee be lowered, and be sold to thee, he shall
not serve thee with the servitude of a slave.
25:40 He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for
thee till the year of release:
25:41 and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he
shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.
25:42 Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of
Egypt; such an one shall not be sold as a [common] servant.
25:43 Thou shalt not oppress him with labour, and shalt fear Yehovah thy
Elohim.
25:44 And whatever number of men-servants and maid-servants thou shalt have,
thou shalt purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round
about thee.
25:45 And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these ye
shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them
be to you for a possession.
25:46 And ye shall distribute them to your children after you, and they
shall be to you permanent possessions for ever: but of your brethren the
children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labours.
25:47 And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in
distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a
proselyte by extraction;
25:48 after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his
brethren shall redeem him.
25:49 A brother of his father, or a son of his father's brother shall redeem
him; or let one of his near kin of his tribe redeem him, and if he should be
rich and redeem himself,
25:50 then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold
himself to him until the year of release: and the money of his purchase
shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be with him from year to year.
25:51 And if any have a greater number of years [than enough], according to
these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money.
25:52 And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release,
then shall he reckon to him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom
25:53 as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; thou shalt not
oppress him with labour before thee.
25:54 And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the
year of his release, he and his children with him.
25:55 For the children of Israel are my servants: they are my attendants,
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. |
25:1 And Yehovah spake unto Moses in mount
Sinai, saying,
25:2 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 Yehovah.
25:3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy
vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
25:4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a
sabbath for Yehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy
vineyard.
25:5 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.
25:6 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.
25:7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all
the increase thereof be meat.
25:8 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.
25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee 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.
25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout
all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto
you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return
every man unto his family.
25:11 A jubilee 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.
25:12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the
increase thereof out of the field.
25:13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his
possession.
25:14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbor, or buyest ought of thy
neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
25:15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of
thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall
sell unto thee:
25:16 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.
25:17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy
Elohim: for I am Yehovah your Elohim.
25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
25:19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and
dwell therein in safety.
25:20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we
shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
25:21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it
shall bring forth fruit for three years.
25:22 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.
25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are
strangers and sojourners with me.
25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for
the land.
25:25 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.
25:26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem
it;
25:27 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.
25:28 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
jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his
possession.
25:29 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.
25:30 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 jubilee.
25:31 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 jubilee.
25:32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the
cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
25:33 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 jubilee: for the
houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children
of Israel.
25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it
is their perpetual possession.
25:35 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.
25:36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy Elohim; that thy
brother may live with thee.
25:37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy
victuals for increase.
25:38 I am Yehovah your Elohim, which brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your Elohim.
25:39 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:
25:40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee,
and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee.
25:41 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.
25:42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor; but shalt fear thy Elohim.
25:44 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.
25:45 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.
25:46 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 rigor.
25:47 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:
25:48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren
may redeem him:
25:49 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.
25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was
sold to him unto the year of jubilee: 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.
25:51 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.
25:52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he
shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again
the price of his redemption.
25:53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other
shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
25:54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the
year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him.
25:55 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 Yehovah your Elohim. |