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Leviticus 25

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1 The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying:

2 Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a sabbath for the Lord.

3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in their yield;

4 but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the Lord: you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

5 You shall not reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your unpruned vine: it shall be a year of complete rest for the land.

6 You may eat what the land yields during its sabbath—you, your male and female slaves, your hired and your bound laborers who live with you;

7 for your livestock also, and for the wild animals in your land all its yield shall be for food.

8 You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty-nine years.

9 Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; on the tenth day of the seventh month—on the day of atonement—you shall have the trumpet sounded throughout all your land.

10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: you shall return, every one of you, to your property and every one of you to your family.

11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow, or reap the aftergrowth, or harvest the unpruned vines.

12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat only what the field itself produces.

13 In this year of jubilee you shall return, every one of you, to your property.

14 When you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not cheat one another.

15 When you buy from your neighbor, you shall pay only for the number of years since the jubilee; the seller shall charge you only for the remaining crop years.

16 If the years are more, you shall increase the price, and if the years are fewer, you shall diminish the price; for it is a certain number of harvests that are being sold to you.

17 You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

18 You shall observe my statutes and faithfully keep my ordinances, so that you may live on the land securely.

19 The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live on it securely.

20 Should you ask, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?"

21 I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years.

22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating from the old crop; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.

23 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.

24 Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.

25 If anyone of your kin falls into difficulty and sells a piece of property, then the next of kin shall come and redeem what the relative has sold.

26 If the person has no one to redeem it, but then prospers and finds sufficient means to do so,

27 the years since its sale shall be computed and the difference shall be refunded to the person to whom it was sold, and the property shall be returned.

28 But if there are not sufficient means to recover it, what was sold shall remain with the purchaser until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and the property shall be returned.

29 If anyone sells a dwelling house in a walled city, it may be redeemed until a year has elapsed since its sale; the right of redemption shall be one year.

30 If it is not redeemed before a full year has elapsed, a house that is in a walled city shall pass in perpetuity to the purchaser, throughout the generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

31 But houses in villages that have no walls around them shall be classed as open country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

32 As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites shall forever have the right of redemption of the houses in the cities belonging to them.

33 Such property as may be redeemed from the Levites—houses sold in a city belonging to them—shall be released in the jubilee; because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

34 But the open land around their cities may not be sold; for that is their possession for all time.

35 If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on you, you shall support them; they shall live with you as though resident aliens.

36 Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.

37 You shall not lend them your money at interest taken in advance, or provide them food at a profit.

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

39 If any who are dependent on you become so impoverished that they sell themselves to you, you shall not make them serve as slaves.

40 They shall remain with you as hired or bound laborers. They shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.

41 Then they and their children with them shall be free from your authority; they shall go back to their own family and return to their ancestral property.

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

43 You shall not rule over them with harshness, but shall fear your God.

44 As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may acquire male and female slaves.

45 You may also acquire them from among the aliens residing with you, and from their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.

46 You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property. These you may treat as slaves, but as for your fellow Israelites, no one shall rule over the other with harshness.

47 If resident aliens among you prosper, and if any of your kin fall into difficulty with one of them and sell themselves to an alien, or to a branch of the alien's family,

48 after they have sold themselves they shall have the right of redemption; one of their brothers may redeem them,

49 or their uncle or their uncle's son may redeem them, or anyone of their family who is of their own flesh may redeem them; or if they prosper they may redeem themselves.

50 They shall compute with the purchaser the total from the year when they sold themselves to the alien until the jubilee year; the price of the sale shall be applied to the number of years: the time they were with the owner shall be rated as the time of a hired laborer.

51 If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price;

52 and if few years remain until the jubilee year, they shall compute thus: according to the years involved they shall make payment for their redemption.

53 As a laborer hired by the year they shall be under the alien's authority, who shall not, however, rule with harshness over them in your sight.

54 And if they have not been redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children with them shall go free in the jubilee year.

55 For to me the people of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Common English Bible CEB

1 The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

2 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: Once you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must celebrate a sabbath rest to the LORD.

3 You will plant your fields for six years, and prune your vineyards and gather their crops for six years.

4 But in the seventh year the land will have a special sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the LORD: You must not plant your fields or prune your vineyards.

5 You must not harvest the secondary growth of your produce or gather the grapes of your freely growing vines. It will be a year of special rest for the land.

6 Whatever the land produces during its sabbath will be your food—for you, for your male and female servants, and for your hired laborers and foreign guests who live with you,

7 as well as for your livestock and for the wild animals in your land. All of the land's produce can be eaten.

8 Count off seven weeks of years—that is, seven times seven—so that the seven weeks of years totals forty-nine years.

9 Then have the trumpet blown on the tenth day of the seventh month. Have the trumpet blown throughout your land on the Day of Reconciliation.

10 You will make the fiftieth year holy, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee year for you: each of you must return to your family property and to your extended family.

11 The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee year for you. Do not plant, do not harvest the secondary growth, and do not gather from the freely growing vines

12 because it is a Jubilee: it will be holy to you. You can eat only the produce directly out of the field.

13 Each of you must return to your family property in this year of Jubilee.

14 When you sell something to or buy something from your fellow citizen, you must not cheat each other.

15 You will buy from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the Jubilee; he will sell to you according to the number of years left for harvests.

16 You will raise the price if there are more years, or lower the price if there are less years because it is the number of harvests that are being sold to you.

17 You must not cheat each other but fear your God because I am the LORD your God.

18 You will observe my rules, and you will keep my regulations and do them so that you can live securely on the land.

19 The land will give its fruit so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

20 Suppose you ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or gather our crops then?"

21 I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year so that it will make enough produce for three years.

22 You can plant again in the eighth year and eat food from the previous year's produce until the ninth year. Until its produce comes, you will eat the food from the previous year.

23 The land must not be permanently sold because the land is mine. You are just immigrants and foreign guests of mine.

24 Throughout the whole land that you possess, you must allow for the land to be bought back.

25 When one of your fellow Israelites faces financial difficulty and must sell part of their family property, the closest relative will come and buy back what their fellow Israelite has sold.

26 If the person doesn't have someone to buy it back, but then manages to afford buying it back,

27 they must calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the person to whom they sold it. Then it will go back to the family property.

28 If they cannot afford to make a refund to the buyer, whatever was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Jubilee year. It will be released in the Jubilee year, at which point it will return to the family property.

29 When a person sells a home in a walled city, it may be bought back until a year after its sale. The period for buying it back will be one year.

30 If it is not bought back before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city will belong to the buyer permanently and their descendants forever. It will not be released at the Jubilee.

31 But houses in settlements that are unwalled will be considered as if they were country fields. They can be bought back, and they must be released at the Jubilee.

32 Levites will always have the right to buy back homes in the levitical cities that are part of their family property.

33 Levite property that can be bought back—houses sold in a city that is their family property—must be released at the Jubilee, because homes in levitical cities are the Levites' family property among the Israelites.

34 But the pastureland around their cities cannot be sold, because that is their permanent family property.

35 If one of your fellow Israelites faces financial difficulty and is in a shaky situation with you, you must assist them as you would an immigrant or foreign guest so that they can survive among you.

36 Do not take interest from them, or any kind of profit from interest, but fear your God so that your fellow Israelite can survive among you.

37 Do not lend a poor Israelite money with interest or lend food at a profit.

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

39 If one of your fellow Israelites faces financial difficulty with you and sells themselves to you, you must not make him work as a slave.

40 Instead, they will be like a hired laborer or foreign guest to you. They will work for you until the Jubilee year,

41 at which point the poor Israelite along with their children will be released from you. They can return to their extended family and to their family property.

42 You must do this because these people are my servants—I brought them out of Egypt's land. They must not be sold as slaves.

43 You will not harshly rule over them but must fear your God.

44 Regarding male or female slaves that you are allowed to have: You can buy a male or a female slave from the nations that are around you.

45 You can also buy them from the foreign guests who live with you and from their extended families that are with you, who were born in your land. These can belong to you as property.

46 You can pass them on to your children as inheritance that they can own as permanent property. You can make these people work as slaves, but you must not rule harshly over your own people, the Israelites.

47 If an immigrant or foreign guest prospers financially among you, but your fellow Israelite faces financial difficulty and so sells themselves to the immigrant or foreign guest, or to a descendant of a foreigner,

48 the Israelite will have the right to be bought back after they sold themselves. One of their relatives can buy them back:

49 their uncle or cousin can buy them back; one of their blood relatives from their family can buy them back; or they may be able to afford their own purchase.

50 The Israelite will calculate with their owner the time from the year they were sold until the Jubilee year. The price of their release will be based on the number of years they were with the owner, as in the case of a hired laborer.

51 If there are many years left before the Jubilee, the Israelite will pay for their purchase in proportion to their purchase price.

52 If only a few years are left, they will calculate that and pay for their purchase according to the years of service.

53 Regardless, the Israelite will be to the buyer like a yearly laborer; the buyer must not harshly rule over them in your sight.

54 If the Israelite is not bought back in one of these ways, they and their children must be released in the Jubilee year

55 because the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants—I brought them out of Egypt's land; I am the LORD your God.