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1 And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:
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The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying:
2 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 of the Lord.
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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 thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof.
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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 to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
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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 What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes or the firstfruits as a vintage. For it is a year of rest to the land.
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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 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.
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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 All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.
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for your livestock also, and for the wild animals in your land all its yield shall be for food.
8 Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years: that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years.
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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 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.
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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 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:
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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 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,
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That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow, or reap the aftergrowth, or harvest the unpruned vines.
12 Because of the sanctification of the jubilee. But as they grow you shall presently eat them.
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For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat only what the field itself produces.
13 In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.
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In this year of jubilee you shall return, every one of you, to your property.
14 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.
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When you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not cheat one another.
15 And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.
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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 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.
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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 Do not afflict your countrymen: but let every one fear his God. Because I am the Lord your God.
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You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
18 Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear.
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You shall observe my statutes and faithfully keep my ordinances, so that you may live on the land securely.
19 And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no man’s invasion.
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The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live on it securely.
20 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?
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Should you ask, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?"
21 I will give you my blessing the sixth year: and it shall yield the fruits of three years.
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I will order my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will yield a crop for three years.
22 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.
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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 also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
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The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.
24 For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.
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Throughout the land that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.
25 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will: he may redeem what he had sold.
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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 But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:
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If the person has no one to redeem it, but then prospers and finds sufficient means to do so,
27 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.
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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 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.
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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 He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired.
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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 he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.
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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 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.
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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 The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed.
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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 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.
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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 let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.
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But the open land around their cities may not be sold; for that is their possession for all time.
35 If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee:
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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 Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest. Fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
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Do not take interest in advance or otherwise make a profit from them, but fear your God; let them live with you.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury: nor exact of him any increase of fruits.
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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, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your God.
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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 thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee: thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants.
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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 But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee.
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They shall remain with you as hired or bound laborers. They shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.
41 And afterwards he shall go out with his children: and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers.
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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, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen.
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For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves are sold.
43 Afflict him not by might: but fear thy God.
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You shall not rule over them with harshness, but shall fear your God.
44 Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:
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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 And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land. These you shall have for servants:
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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 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.
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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 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:
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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 the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:
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after they have sold themselves they shall have the right of redemption; one of their brothers may redeem them,
49 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:
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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 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.
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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 there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.
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If many years remain, they shall pay for their redemption in proportion to the purchase price;
52 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.
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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 His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.
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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 by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.
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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 the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
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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.
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