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Leviticus 25

The Message Bible MSG

1 God spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai,

2 "Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them: When you enter the land which I am going to give you, the land will observe a Sabbath to God.

3 Sow your fields, prune your vineyards, and take in your harvests for six years.

4 But the seventh year the land will take a Sabbath of complete and total rest, a Sabbath to God; you will not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.

5 Don't reap what grows of itself; don't harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land gets a year of complete and total rest.

6 But you can eat from what the land volunteers during the Sabbath year - you and your men and women servants, your hired hands, and the foreigners who live in the country,

7 and, of course, also your livestock and the wild animals in the land can eat from it. Whatever the land volunteers of itself can be eaten. "The Fiftieth Year Shall Be a Jubilee for You"

8 "Count off seven Sabbaths of years - seven times seven years: Seven Sabbaths of years adds up to forty-nine years.

9 Then sound loud blasts on the ram's horn on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. Sound the ram's horn all over the land.

10 Sanctify the fiftieth year; make it a holy year. Proclaim freedom all over the land to everyone who lives in it - a Jubilee for you: Each person will go back to his family's property and reunite with his extended family.

11 The fiftieth year is your Jubilee year: Don't sow; don't reap what volunteers itself in the fields; don't harvest the untended vines

12 because it's the Jubilee and a holy year for you. You're permitted to eat from whatever volunteers itself in the fields.

13 "In this year of Jubilee everyone returns home to his family property.

14 "If you sell or buy property from one of your countrymen, don't cheat him.

15 Calculate the purchase price on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. He is obliged to set the sale price on the basis of the number of harvests remaining until the next Jubilee.

16 The more years left, the more money; you can raise the price. But the fewer years left, the less money; decrease the price. What you are buying and selling in fact is the number of crops you're going to harvest.

17 Don't cheat each other. Fear your God. I am God, your God.

18 "Keep my decrees and observe my laws and you will live secure in the land.

19 The land will yield its fruit; you will have all you can eat and will live safe and secure.

20 Do I hear you ask, 'What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or harvest?'

21 I assure you, I will send such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

22 While you plant in the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and continue until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

23 "The land cannot be sold permanently because the land is mine and you are foreigners - you're my tenants.

24 You must provide for the right of redemption for any of the land that you own.

25 "If one of your brothers becomes poor and has to sell any of his land, his nearest relative is to come and buy back what his brother sold.

26 If a man has no one to redeem it but he later prospers and earns enough for its redemption,

27 he is to calculate the value since he sold it and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it; he can then go back to his own land.

28 If he doesn't get together enough money to repay him, what he sold remains in the possession of the buyer until the year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it will be returned and he can go back and live on his land.

29 "If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right to buy it back for a full year after the sale. At any time during that year he can redeem it.

30 But if it is not redeemed before the full year has passed, it becomes the permanent possession of the buyer and his descendants. It is not returned in the Jubilee.

31 However, houses in unwalled villages are treated the same as fields. They can be redeemed and have to be returned at the Jubilee.

32 "As to the Levitical cities, houses in the cities owned by the Levites are always subject to redemption.

33 Levitical property is always redeemable if it is sold in a town that they hold and reverts to them in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the People of Israel.

34 The pastures belonging to their cities may not be sold; they are their permanent possession.

35 "If one of your brothers becomes indigent and cannot support himself, help him, the same as you would a foreigner or a guest so that he can continue to live in your neighborhood.

36 Don't gouge him with interest charges; out of reverence for your God help your brother to continue to live with you in the neighborhood.

37 Don't take advantage of his plight by running up big interest charges on his loans, and don't give him food for profit.

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

39 "If one of your brothers becomes indigent and has to sell himself to you, don't make him work as a slave.

40 Treat him as a hired hand or a guest among you. He will work for you until the Jubilee,

41 after which he and his children are set free to go back to his clan and his ancestral land.

42 Because the People of Israel are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt, they must never be sold as slaves.

43 Don't tyrannize them; fear your God.

44 "The male and female slaves which you have are to come from the surrounding nations; you are permitted to buy slaves from them.

45 You may also buy the children of foreign workers who are living among you temporarily and from their clans which are living among you and have been born in your land. They become your property.

46 You may will them to your children as property and make them slaves for life. But you must not tyrannize your brother Israelites.

47 "If a foreigner or temporary resident among you becomes rich and one of your brothers becomes poor and sells himself to the foreigner who lives among you or to a member of the foreigner's clan,

48 he still has the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his relatives may buy him back.

49 An uncle or cousin or any close relative of his extended family may redeem him. Or, if he gets the money together, he can redeem himself.

50 What happens then is that he and his owner count out the time from the year he sold himself to the year of Jubilee; the buy-back price is set according to the wages of a hired hand for that number of years.

51 If many years remain before the Jubilee, he must pay back a larger share of his purchase price,

52 but if only a few years remain until the Jubilee, he is to calculate his redemption price accordingly.

53 He is to be treated as a man hired from year to year. You must make sure that his owner does not tyrannize him.

54 "If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he goes free in the year of Jubilee, he and his children,

55 because the People of Israel are my servants, my servants whom I brought out of Egypt. I am God, your God.

New Living Translation NLT

1 While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the LORD said to him,

2 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you have entered the land I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the LORD every seventh year.

3 For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops,

4 but during the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath year of complete rest. It is the LORD ’s Sabbath. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards during that year.

5 And don’t store away the crops that grow on their own or gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

6 But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own during its Sabbath. This applies to you, your male and female servants, your hired workers, and the temporary residents who live with you.

7 Your livestock and the wild animals in your land will also be allowed to eat what the land produces.

8 “In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven years, adding up to forty-nine years in all.

9 Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year, blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land.

10 Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan.

11 This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.

12 It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own.

13 In the Year of Jubilee each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors.

14 “When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other.

15 When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the number of years since the last jubilee. The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee.

16 The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests.

17 Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the LORD your God.

18 “If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations.

19 Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it.

20 But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’

21 Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years.

22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.

23 “The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.

24 “With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back.

25 If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him.

26 If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back,

27 he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land.

28 But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.

29 “Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back.

30 But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.

31 But a house in a village—a settlement without fortified walls—will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.

32 “The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them.

33 And any property that is sold by the Levites—all houses within the Levitical towns—must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel.

34 The open pastureland around the Levitical towns may never be sold. It is their permanent possession.

35 “If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident and allow him to live with you.

36 Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative.

37 Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him.

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

39 “If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell himself to you, do not treat him as a slave.

40 Treat him instead as a hired worker or as a temporary resident who lives with you, and he will serve you only until the Year of Jubilee.

41 At that time he and his children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clans and go back to the land originally allotted to their ancestors.

42 The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves.

43 Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly.

44 “However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you.

45 You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live among you, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property,

46 passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way.

47 “Suppose a foreigner or temporary resident becomes rich while living among you. If any of your fellow Israelites fall into poverty and are forced to sell themselves to such a foreigner or to a member of his family,

48 they still retain the right to be bought back, even after they have been purchased. They may be bought back by a brother,

49 an uncle, or a cousin. In fact, anyone from the extended family may buy them back. They may also redeem themselves if they have prospered.

50 They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were sold until the next Year of Jubilee—whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time.

51 If many years still remain until the jubilee, they will repay the proper proportion of what they received when they sold themselves.

52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they will repay a small amount for their redemption.

53 The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly.

54 If any Israelites have not been bought back by the time the Year of Jubilee arrives, they and their children must be set free at that time.

55 For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.