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Leviticus
25
And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say
to them: When you shall have entered into the land which
I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath to
the Lord.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou
shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits
thereof:
But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to
the land, of the resting of the Lord: thou shalt not
sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt
not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes of the
firstfruits as a vintage: for it is a year of rest to
the land:
But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to
thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling,
and to the strangers that sojourn with thee:
All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and
to thy cattle.
Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years,
that is to say, seven times seven, which together make
forty-nine years:
And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month,
the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation
in all your land.
And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt
proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land:
for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return
to his possession, and every one shall go back to his
former family:
Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You
shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the
field of their own accord, neither shall you gather
the firstfruits of the vines,
Because of the sanctification of the jubilee: but as
they grow you shall presently eat them.
In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their
possessions.
When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or
shalt buy of him; grieve not thy brother: but thou shalt
buy of him according to the number of years from the
jubilee.
And he shall sell to thee according to the computation
of the fruits.
The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall
the price increase: and the less time is counted, so
much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall
sell to thee the time of the fruits.
Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear
his God: because I am the Lord your God.
Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them:
that you may dwell in the land without any fear,
And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you
may eat your fill, fearing no mall's invasion.
But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year,
if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?
I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall
yield the fruits of three years:
And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of
the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow
up, you shall eat the old store.
The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it
is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
For which cause all the country of your possession shall
be under the condition of redemption.
If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession,
and his kinsman will, he may redeem what he had sold.
But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the
price to redeem it:
The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time
when he sold it: and the overplus he shall restore to
the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.
But if his hands find not the means to repay the price,
the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year
of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall
return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.
He that selleth a house within the walls of a city,
shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year
be expired:
If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out,
the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever,
and it can- not be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.
But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls,
it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields:
if it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall
return to the owner.
The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always
be redeemed:
If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all
return to the owners, because the houses of the cities
of the Levites are for their possessions among the children
of Israel.
But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual
possession.
If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and
thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he
live with thee,
Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear
thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor exact
of him any increase of fruits.
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land
of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan,
and might be your God.
If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself
to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service
of bondservants:
But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall
work with thee until the year of the jubilee,
And afterwards he shall go out with his children, and
shall return to his kindred and to the possession of
his fathers,
For they are my servants, and I brought them out of
the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen:
Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God.
Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations
that are round about you.
And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that
were born of them in your land, these you shall have
for servants:
And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your
posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress
not your brethren the children of Israel by might.
If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong
among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself
to him, or to any of his race:
After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his
brethren shall redeem him:
Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman,
by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able
also, he shall redeem himself,
Counting only the years from the time of his selling
unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money
that he was sold for, according to the number of the
years and the reckoning of a hired servant,
If there be many years that remain until the jubilee,
according to them shall he also repay the price.
If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according
to the number of the years, and shall repay to the buyer
of what remaineth of the years,
His wages being allowed for which he served before:
he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.
And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the
year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.
For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought
forth out of the land of Egypt.
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