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1 locutusque est Dominus ad Mosen in monte Sinai dicens
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The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
2 loquere filiis Israhel et dices ad eos quando ingressi fueritis terram quam ego dabo vobis sabbatizet sabbatum Domini
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"Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD.
3 sex annis seres agrum tuum et sex annis putabis vineam tuam colligesque fructus eius
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Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
4 septimo autem anno sabbatum erit terrae requietionis Domini agrum non seres et vineam non putabis
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but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
5 quae sponte gignit humus non metes et uvas primitiarum tuarum non colliges quasi vindemiam annus enim requietionis terrae est
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What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
6 sed erunt vobis in cibum tibi et servo tuo ancillae et mercennario tuo et advenae qui peregrinantur apud te
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The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you;
7 iumentis tuis et pecoribus omnia quae nascuntur praebebunt cibum
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for your cattle also and for the beasts that are in your land all its yield shall be for food.
8 numerabis quoque tibi septem ebdomades annorum id est septem septies quae simul faciunt annos quadraginta novem
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"And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 et clanges bucina mense septimo decima die mensis propitiationis tempore in universa terra vestra
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Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
10 sanctificabisque annum quinquagesimum et vocabis remissionem cunctis habitatoribus terrae tuae ipse est enim iobeleus revertetur homo ad possessionem suam et unusquisque rediet ad familiam pristinam
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And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family.
11 quia iobeleus est et quinquagesimus annus non seretis neque metetis sponte in agro nascentia et primitias vindemiae non colligetis
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A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.
12 ob sanctificationem iobelei sed statim ablata comedetis
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For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.
13 anno iobelei redient omnes ad possessiones suas
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"In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
14 quando vendes quippiam civi tuo vel emes ab eo ne contristes fratrem tuum sed iuxta numerum annorum iobelei emes ab eo
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And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
15 et iuxta supputationem frugum vendet tibi
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According to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years for crops he shall sell to you.
16 quanto plus anni remanserint post iobeleum tanto crescet et pretium et quanto minus temporis numeraveris tanto minoris et emptio constabit tempus enim frugum vendet tibi
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If the years are many you shall increase the price, and if the years are few you shall diminish the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.
17 nolite adfligere contribules vestros sed timeat unusquisque Deum suum quia ego Dominus Deus vester
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You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
18 facite praecepta mea et iudicia custodite et implete ea ut habitare possitis in terra absque ullo pavore
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"Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land securely.
19 et gignat vobis humus fructus suos quibus vescamini usque ad saturitatem nullius impetum formidantes
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The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell in it securely.
20 quod si dixeritis quid comedemus anno septimo si non seruerimus neque collegerimus fruges nostras
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And if you say, 'What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?'
21 dabo benedictionem meam vobis anno sexto et faciet fructus trium annorum
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I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.
22 seretisque anno octavo et comedetis veteres fruges usque ad nonum annum donec nova nascantur edetis vetera
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When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating old produce; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.
23 terra quoque non veniet in perpetuum quia mea est et vos advenae et coloni mei estis
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The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 unde cuncta regio possessionis vestrae sub redemptionis condicione vendetur
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And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.
25 si adtenuatus frater tuus vendiderit possessiunculam suam et voluerit propinquus eius potest redimere quod ille vendiderat
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"If your brother becomes poor, and sells part of his property, then his next of kin shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.
26 sin autem non habuerit proximum et ipse pretium ad redimendum potuerit invenire
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If a man has no one to redeem it, and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
27 conputabuntur fructus ex eo tempore quo vendidit et quod reliquum est reddet emptori sicque recipiet possessionem suam
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let him reckon the years since he sold it and pay back the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
28 quod si non invenerit manus eius ut reddat pretium habebit emptor quod emerat usque ad annum iobeleum in ipso enim omnis venditio redit ad dominum et ad possessorem pristinum
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But if he has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
29 qui vendiderit domum intra urbis muros habebit licentiam redimendi donec unus impleatur annus
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"If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a whole year after its sale; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
30 si non redemerit et anni circulus fuerit evolutus emptor possidebit eam et posteri eius in perpetuum et redimi non poterit etiam in iobeleo
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If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.
31 sin autem in villa fuerit domus quae muros non habet agrorum iure vendetur si ante redempta non fuerit in iobeleo revertetur ad dominum
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But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.
32 aedes Levitarum quae in urbibus sunt semper possunt redimi
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Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
33 si redemptae non fuerint in iobeleo revertentur ad dominos quia domus urbium leviticarum pro possessionibus sunt inter filios Israhel
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And if one of the Levites does not exercise his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city of their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.
34 suburbana autem eorum non venient quia possessio sempiterna est
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But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.
35 si adtenuatus fuerit frater tuus et infirmus manu et susceperis eum quasi advenam et peregrinum et vixerit tecum
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"And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.
36 ne accipias usuras ab eo nec amplius quam dedisti time Deum tuum ut vivere possit frater tuus apud te
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Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.
37 pecuniam tuam non dabis ei ad usuram et frugum superabundantiam non exiges
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You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
38 ego Dominus Deus vester qui eduxi vos de terra Aegypti ut darem vobis terram Chanaan et essem vester Deus
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I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39 si paupertate conpulsus vendiderit se tibi frater tuus non eum opprimes servitute famulorum
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"And if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
40 sed quasi mercennarius et colonus erit usque ad annum iobeleum operabitur apud te
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he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee;
41 et postea egredietur cum liberis suis et revertetur ad cognationem et ad possessionem patrum suorum
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then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own family, and return to the possession of his fathers.
42 mei enim servi sunt et ego eduxi eos de terra Aegypti non venient condicione servorum
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For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.
43 ne adfligas eum per potentiam sed metuito Deum tuum
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You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
44 servus et ancilla sint vobis de nationibus quae in circuitu vestro sunt
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As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are round about you.
45 et de advenis qui peregrinantur apud vos vel qui ex his nati fuerint in terra vestra hos habebitis famulos
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You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.
46 et hereditario iure transmittetis ad posteros ac possidebitis in aeternum fratres autem vestros filios Israhel ne opprimatis per potentiam
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You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
47 si invaluerit apud vos manus advenae atque peregrini et adtenuatus frater tuus vendiderit se ei aut cuiquam de stirpe eius
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"If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to a member of the stranger's family,
48 post venditionem potest redimi qui voluerit ex fratribus suis redimet eum
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then after he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brothers may redeem him,
49 et patruus et patruelis et consanguineus et adfinis sin autem et ipse potuerit redimet se
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or his uncle, or his cousin may redeem him, or a near kinsman belonging to his family may redeem him; or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.
50 supputatis dumtaxat annis a tempore venditionis suae usque ad annum iobeleum et pecunia qua venditus fuerat iuxta annorum numerum et rationem mercennarii supputata
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He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his release shall be according to the number of years; the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.
51 si plures fuerint anni qui remanent usque ad iobeleum secundum hos reddet et pretium
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If there are still many years, according to them he shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption.
52 si pauci ponet rationem cum eo iuxta annorum numerum et reddet emptori quod reliquum est annorum
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If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption.
53 quibus ante servivit mercedibus inputatis non adfliget eum violenter in conspectu tuo
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As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
54 quod si per haec redimi non potuerit anno iobeleo egredietur cum liberis suis
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And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
55 mei sunt enim servi filii Israhel quos eduxi de terra Aegypti
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For to me the people of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
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