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Leviticus 25

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 ADONAI spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai; he said,

2 "Tell the people of Isra'el, 'When you enter the land I am giving you, the land itself is to observe a Shabbat rest for ADONAI.

3 Six years you will sow your field; six years you will prune your grapevines and gather their produce.

4 But in the seventh year is to be a Shabbat of complete rest for the land, a Shabbat for ADONAI; you will neither sow your field nor prune your grapevines.

5 You are not to harvest what grows by itself from the seeds left by your previous harvest, and you are not to gather the grapes of your untended vine; it is to be a year of complete rest for the land.

6 But what the land produces during the year of Shabbat will be food for all of you - you, your servant, your maid, your employee, anyone living near you,

7 your livestock and the wild animals on your land; everything the land produces may be used for food.

8 "'You are to count seven Shabbats of years, seven times seven years, that is, forty-nine years.

9 Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom-Kippur, you are to sound a blast on the shofar; you are to sound the shofar all through your land;

10 and you are to consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a yovel for you; you will return everyone to the land he owns, and everyone is to return to his family.

11 That fiftieth year will be a yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines;

12 because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you; whatever the fields produce will be food for all of you.

13 In this year of yovel, every one of you is to return to the land he owns.

14 "'If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, neither of you is to exploit the other.

15 Rather, you are to take into account the number of years after the yovel when you buy land from your neighbor, and he is to sell to you according to the number of years crops will be raised.

16 If the number of years remaining is large, you will raise the price; if few years remain, you will lower it; because what he is really selling you is the number of crops to be produced.

17 Thus you are not to take advantage of each other, but you are to fear your God; for I am ADONAI your God.

18 "'Rather, you are to keep my regulations and rulings and act accordingly. If you do, you will live securely in the land.

19 The land will yield its produce, you will eat until you have enough, and you will live there securely.

20 "'If you ask, "If we aren't allowed to sow seed or harvest what our land produces, what are we going to eat the seventh year?"

21 then I will order my blessing on you during the sixth year, so that the land brings forth enough produce for all three years.

22 The eighth year you will sow seed but eat the the old, stored produce until the ninth year; that is, until the produce of the eighth year comes in, you will eat the old, stored food.

23 "'The land is not to be sold in perpetuity, because the land belongs to me -you are only foreigners and temporary residents with me.

24 Therefore, when you sell your property, you must include the right of redemption.

25 That is, if one of you becomes poor and sells some of his property, his next-of-kin can come and buy back what his relative sold.

26 If the seller has no one to redeem it but becomes rich enough to redeem it himself,

27 he will calculate the number of years the land was sold for, refund the excess to its buyer, and return to his property.

28 If he hasn't sufficient means to get it back himself, then what he sold will remain in the hands of the buyer until the year of yovel; in the yovel the buyer will vacate it and the seller return to his property.

29 "'If someone sells a dwelling in a walled city, he has one year after the date of sale in which to redeem it. For a full year he will have the right of redemption;

30 but if he has not redeemed the dwelling in the walled city within the year, then title in perpetuity passes to the buyer through all his generations; it will not revert in the yovel.

31 However, houses in villages not surrounded by walls are to be dealt with like the fields in the countryside - they may be redeemed [before the yovel], and they revert in the yovel.

32 "'Concerning the cities of the L'vi'im and the houses in the cities they possess, the L'vi'im are to have a permanent right of redemption.

33 If someone purchases a house from one of the L'vi'im, then the house he sold in the city where he owns property will still revert to him in the yovel; because the houses in the cities of the L'vi'im are their tribe's possession among the people of Isra'el.

34 The fields in the open land around their cities may not be sold, because that is their permanent possession.

35 "'If a member of your people has become poor, so that he can't support himself among you, you are to assist him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident, so that he can continue living with you.

36 Do not charge him interest or otherwise profit from him, but fear your God, so that your brother can continue living with you.

37 Do not take interest when you loan him money or take a profit when you sell him food.

38 I am ADONAI your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt in order to give you the land of Kena'an and be your God.

39 "'If a member of your people has become poor among you and sells himself to you, do not make him do the work of a slave.

40 Rather, you are to treat him like an employee or a tenant; he will work for you until the year of yovel.

41 Then he will leave you, he and his children with him, and return to his own family and regain possession of his ancestral land.

42 For they are my slaves, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; therefore they are not to be sold as slaves.

43 Do not treat him harshly, but fear your God.

44 "'Concerning the men and women you may have as slaves: you are to buy men- and women-slaves from the nations surrounding you.

45 You may also buy the children of foreigners living with you and members of their families born in your land; you may own these.

46 You may also bequeath them to your children to own; from these groups you may take your slaves forever. But as far as your brothers the people of Isra'el are concerned, you are not to treat each other harshly.

47 "'If a foreigner living with you has grown rich, and a member of your people has become poor and sells himself to this foreigner living with you or to a member of the foreigner's family,

48 he may be redeemed after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him;

49 or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him; or any near relative of his may redeem him; or, if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.

50 He will calculate with the person who bought him the time from the year he sold himself to him to the year of yovel; and the amount to be paid will be according to the number of years and his time at an employee's wage.

51 If many years remain, according to them will he refund the amount for his redemption from the amount he was bought for.

52 If there remain only a few years until the year of yovel, then he will calculate with him; according to his years will he refund the amount for his redemption.

53 He will be like a worker hired year by year. You will see to it that he is not treated harshly.

54 "'If he has not been redeemed by any of these procedures, nevertheless he will go free in the year of yovel -he and his children with him.

55 For to me the people of Isra'el are slaves; they are my slaves whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am ADONAI your God.

GOD'S WORD Translation GW

1 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai,

2 "Tell the Israelites: When you come into the land I'm giving you, the land will celebrate a year to honor the LORD.

3 Then, for six years you may plant crops in your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather what they produce.

4 However, the seventh year will be a festival year for the land. It will be a year to honor the LORD. Don't plant crops in your fields or prune your vineyards.

5 Don't harvest what grows by itself or harvest grapes from your vines. That year will be a festival for the land.

6 Whatever the land produces during that year is for all of you to eat--for you, your male and female slaves, your hired workers, foreigners among you,

7 your animals, and the wild animals in your land. Everything the land produces will be yours to eat.

8 "Count seven of these years seven times for a total of 49 years.

9 On the tenth day of the seventh month, the special day for the payment for sin, sound rams' horns throughout the country.

10 Set apart the fiftieth year as holy, and proclaim liberty to everyone living in the land. This is your jubilee year. Every slave will be freed in order to return to his property and to his family.

11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee year. Don't plant or harvest what grows by itself or pick grapes from the vines in the land.

12 The jubilee [year] will be holy to you. You will eat what the field itself produces.

13 "In this jubilee year every slave will be freed in order to return to his property.

14 If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, don't take advantage of him.

15 When you buy property from your neighbor, take into account the number of years since the jubilee. Your neighbor must sell it to you taking into account the number of crops [until the next jubilee].

16 If there are still many years [until the jubilee], you will pay more for it. If there are only a few years [until the jubilee], you will pay less for it because he is selling you only the number of crops.

17 Never take advantage of each other. Fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.

18 "Obey my laws, and carefully follow my rules. Then you will live securely in the land.

19 The land will give you its products, and you will eat all you want and live there securely.

20 You may ask, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or bring in our crops?'

21 I will give you my blessing in the sixth year so that the land will produce enough for three years.

22 You will plant [again] in the eighth year but live on what the land already produced. You will eat it, even in the ninth year, until the land produces more.

23 "Land must never be sold permanently, because the land is mine. To me you are strangers without permanent homes.

24 People must always have the right to buy their property back.

25 If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his property, then the one who can assume responsibility, his nearest relative, must buy back what he sold.

26 If a man doesn't have anyone to buy it back for him, but if he prospers and earns enough to buy it back himself,

27 he must count the years from its sale. Then he will pay what is left to the man to whom he sold it, and it will be his property again.

28 However, if he cannot earn enough to buy it back, what he sold stays in the hands of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it will be released, and he will own it again.

29 "If anyone sells a home in a walled city, for one year after selling it he has the right to buy it back. He may buy it back only within that time.

30 If he does not buy it back during that year, the house in the city belongs to the buyer for generations to come. It will not be released in the jubilee.

31 However, houses in villages without walls are regarded as belonging to the fields of the land. They can be bought back. They will be released in the jubilee.

32 "The Levites always have the right to buy back their property in the cities they own.

33 If any Levite buys back [a house], in the jubilee the purchased house in the city will be released, because the houses in the Levite cities are their property among the Israelites.

34 But a field that belongs to their cities must not be sold, because it is their permanent property.

35 "If an Israelite becomes poor and cannot support himself, help him. He must live with you as a stranger without a permanent home.

36 Don't collect interest or make any profit from him. Fear your God by respecting other Israelites' lives.

37 Never collect any kind of interest on your money or on the food you give them.

38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you Canaan and to be your God.

39 "If an Israelite becomes poor and sells himself to you, don't work him like a slave.

40 He will be like a hired worker or a visitor to you. He may work with you until the year of jubilee.

41 Then you will release him and his children to go back to their family and the property of their ancestors.

42 They are my servants. I brought them out of Egypt. They must never be sold as slaves.

43 Do not treat them harshly. Fear your God.

44 "You may have male and female slaves, but buy them from the nations around you.

45 You may also buy them from the foreigners living among you and from their families born in your country. They will be your property.

46 You may acquire them for yourselves and for your descendants as permanent property. You may work them as slaves. However, do not treat the Israelites harshly. They are your relatives.

47 "Someone who is a foreigner without a permanent home among you may become rich, and your relative living with him may be poor. The poor Israelite may sell himself to that foreigner or a member of his family.

48 After he has sold himself, he has the right to be bought back. One of his brothers may buy him back.

49 His uncle, his cousin, or some other relative could also buy him back. If he becomes rich, he could buy his own freedom.

50 Then he and his buyer must take into account the number of years from the year he was bought until the year of jubilee. His sale price will be adjusted based on the number of years he was with his buyer, like the wages of a hired worker.

51 If there are many years left, he must refund from his purchase price an amount equal [to those years].

52 If there are only a few years left until the year of jubilee, he must take them into account. He must refund from his purchase price an amount equal to those years.

53 During those years he should serve his buyer as a hired worker. His buyer should not treat him harshly.

54 If he cannot buy his freedom in these ways, he and his children will be released in the year of jubilee.

55 "The Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants. I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God."