Leviticus 25

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1 And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying:
2 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD;
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and thou shalt prune thy vineyard six years, and gather in their work,
4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath land rest, Saturday the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field and vineyard, nor prune thy
5 that the mere increase in the harvest of your not szhinay, and the grapes of thine undressed vines not shoot; it is a year of rest of land;
6 and will it sabbath of the land [all of] you to eat, you and your servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and thy stranger that sojourneth with thee;
7 And for thy cattle, and the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

8 And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years shall be unto thee seven Sabbaths of years forty-nine years;
9 and blew a trumpet in the seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, the day of atonement Blow the trumpet throughout all your land;
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
eleven The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee unto you: ye shall not sow nor reap what grows by itself on the ground, and do not remove the berries from the uncircumcised [vines] it,
12 For this anniversary: ​​he shall be holy for you; the field eat it works.
13 In the year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbor, or buyest ought of thy neighbor, do not oppress one another;
15 on the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to thee;
16 if a lot [is] of years thou shalt increase the price; and if enough years [is] diminish the price, for a certain number [of years] of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Do not oppress one another; fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
18 Shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land;
19 and the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein.
20 If you say: What shall we eat in the seventh year, when we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase?
21 I will send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years;
22 and ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until they ripen its works, ye shall eat old.

23 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me;
24 in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, then come close to his relatives and redeem his brother sold
26 if there is no one to redeem for him, but he will have wealth and find, as you need to buy,
27 then let him count the years of his sale, and return the rest to whom he sold it, and unto his possession again;
28 if he does not find his hand, as you need to return it, then sold them to remain in the hands of the bidder until the year of jubilee, and in the jubilee year, it will depart, and he shall return unto his possession.
29 If someone sells a dwelling house in the city, [fenced] wall, then you can buy it before the expiry of the year from the sale of his: to redeem it within a year as possible;
thirty if it be not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city will remain forever to him that bought him in his labors, and the anniversary will not depart [from him].
31 And the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
32 And the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem;
33 while others purchase of the Levites, then the house sold in the city of his possession in the jubilee, for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel;
34 and the fields around their cities may not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.
35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then him: if he a stranger, or a sojourner, that he may live with thee;
36 Do not take from him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee;
37 Thou shalt not give him thy victuals growth not give him to [obtain] profits.
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 When you become poor in thy brother, and be sold unto thee, shalt not compel him to serve as slave:
40 it has to be you as a hired servant, as a settler; It shall serve with you until the year of jubilee,
41 and [then] let him depart from you, he and his children with him, and return to his tribe, and unto the possession of his fathers,
42 because they - are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as slaves are sold;
43 You shall not rule over him with rigor, and fear thy God.
44 And that thy manservant and thy maidservant were with you, then buy a slave and a slave among the nations that are around you;
45 Moreover of the children of settlers who settled in you can buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession;
46 You can transfer their inheritance to the children of your own, as the estate; ever own them as slaves. But over your brethren the children of Israel, one above the other shall not rule with rigor.
47 If a stranger or a sojourner will have your wealth, and your brother before him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger that dwelleth with you, or someone from the stock of the stranger,
48 after the sale, you can buy it; any of his brothers may redeem him,
49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son may redeem him, or any of his kto-- relationship, from among his family, may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him [starting] from the year when he sold himself to the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; as a temporary hired servant shall it be with him;
51 and if many more [is] years, according unto them he shall give ransom for themselves money that he was bought for;
52 if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall count as years and pay for his redemption.
53 He should be with him as a mercenary in all years; he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.
54 If he be not redeemed in this manner, in the anniversary year would go himself and his children with him,
55 because the children 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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