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[1]Andthe Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
[2]Speakunto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye shall come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep Sabbath unto the Lord.
[3]Sixyears thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vineyard, and gather the fruit thereof.
[4]Butthe seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land: it shall be the Lord's Sabbath: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor cut thy vineyard.
[5]Thatwhich groweth of its own accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes that thou hast left unlabored: for it shall be a year of rest unto the land.
[6]Andthe rest of the land shall be meat for you, even for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for the stranger that sojourneth with thee:
[7]Andfor thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land shall all the increase thereof be meat.
[8]Alsothou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee, even seven times seven year: and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years will be unto thee nine and forty year.
[9]Thenthou shalt cause to blow the trumpet of the jubilee in the tenth day of the seventh month: even in the day of the reconciliation shall ye make the trumpet blow, throughout all your land.
[10]Andye shall hallow that year, even the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be the jubilee unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and every man shall return unto his family.
[11]Thisfiftieth year shall be a year of jubilee unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself, neither gather the grapes thereof that are left unlabored.
[12]Forit is the jubilee, it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat of the increase thereof out of the field.
[13]Inthe year of this jubilee, ye shall return every man unto his possession.
[14]Andwhen thou sellest ought to thy neighbor, or buyest at thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
[15]Butaccording to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor: also according to the number of the years of the revenues, he shall sell unto thee.
[16]Accordingto the multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt abate the price of it: for the number of fruits doth he sell unto thee.
[17]Oppressnot ye therefore any man his neighbor, but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.
[18]Whereforeye shall obey mine ordinances, and keep my laws, and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
[19]Andthe land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
[20]Andif ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year, for we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase?
[21]Iwill send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
[22]Andye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the old fruit until the ninth year: until the fruit thereof come, ye shall eat the old.
[23]Alsothe land shall not be sold to be cut off from the family: for the land is mine, and ye be but strangers and sojourners with me.
[24]Thereforein all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
[25]Ifthy brother be impoverished, and sell his possession, then his redeemer shall come, even his near kinsman, and buy out that which his brother sold.
[26]Andif he have no redeemer, but hath gotten and found to buy it out,
[27]Thenshall he count the years of his sale, and restore the over plus to the man, to whom he sold it: so shall he return to his possession.
[28]Butif he cannot get sufficient to restore to him, then that which is sold, shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it, until the year of the jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall come out, and he shall return unto his possession.
[29]Likewiseif a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, he may buy it out again within a whole year after it is sold: within a year may he buy it out.
[30]Butif it be not bought out within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city, shall be stablished, as cut off from the family, to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.
[31]Butthe houses of villages, which have no walls round about them, shall be esteemed as the field of the country: they may be bought out again, and shall go out in the jubilee.
[32]Notwithstanding,the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at all seasons.
[33]Andif a man purchase of the Levites, the house that was sold, and the city of their possession shall go out in the jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
[34]Butthe field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold: for it is their perpetual possession.
[35]Moreover,if thy brother be impoverished, and fallen in decay with thee, thou shalt relieve him, and as a stranger and sojourner, so shall he live with thee.
[36]Thoushalt take no usury of him, nor vantage, but thou shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
[37]Thoushalt not give him thy money to usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
[38]Iam the Lord your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
[39]Ifthy brother also that dwelleth by thee, be impoverished, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant,
[40]Butas an hired servant, and as a sojourner he shall be with thee: he shall serve thee unto the year of the jubilee.
[41]Thenshall he depart from thee, both he, and his children with him, and shall return unto his family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return:
[42]Forthey are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen are sold.
[43]Thoushalt not rule over him cruelly, but shalt fear thy God.
[44]Thybondservant also, and thy bondmaid, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you: of them shall ye buy servants and maids.
[45]Andmoreover of the children of the strangers, that are sojourners among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: these shall be your possession.
[46]Soye shall take them as inheritance for your children after you, to possess them by inheritance, ye shall use their labors forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule one over another with cruelty.
[47]Ifa sojourner or a stranger dwelling by thee get riches, and thy brother by him be impoverished, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner dwelling by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family,
[48]Afterthat he is sold, he may be bought out: one of his brethren may buy him out,
[49]Orhis uncle, or his uncle's son may buy him out, or any of the kindred of his flesh among his family, may redeem him: either if he can get so much, he may buy himself out.
[50]Thenhe shall reckon with his buyer from the year that he was sold to him, unto the year of jubilee: and the money of his sale shall be according to the number of years: according to the time of an hired servant shall he be with him.
[51]Ifthere be many years behind, according to them he shall give again for his deliverance, of the money that he was bought for.
[52]Ifthere remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according to his years give again for his redemption.
[53]Heshall be with him year by year as an hired servant: he shall not rule cruelly over him in thy sight.
[54]Andif he be not redeemed thus, he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.
[55]Forunto me the children of Israel are servants: they are my servants, whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
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