Chapter 25 And the LORD spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give
you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy
vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof.
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the
LORD.
Thou shalt neither sow thy field nor prune thy vineyard.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap,
neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed.
For it is a year of rest unto the land, and the sabbath of the land shall be neat
for you.
For thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired
servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, and for thy cattle,
and for the beasts that are in the land, shall all the increase thereof be meet.
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years.
And the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine
years.
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the
seventh month.
In the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all 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.
A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you.
Ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the
grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
For it is the jubilee, it shall be holy unto you.
Ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.
And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buyest out of thy neighbor's hand,
ye shall not oppress one another.
According to 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 unto thee.
According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof,
and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it.
For according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another, but thou shalt fear thy God,
for I am the Lord your God.
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes and keep my judgments, and do them, and ye shall
dwell in the land in safety.
And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell
therein in safety.
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year?
Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase.
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring
forth fruit for three years.
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth
year.
Until her fruits come in, ye shall eat of the old store.
The land shall not be sold forever, for the land is mine, for ye are strangers
and sojourners with me.
And in all the land of your possession, ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession,
and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his
brother sold.
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it,
then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the
man to whom he sold it, that he may return unto his possession.
But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain
in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of Jubilee.
And in the Jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within
a whole year after it is sold.
Within a full year may he redeem it.
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in
the walled city shall be established forever to him that bought it throughout
his generations.
It shall not go out in the Jubilee.
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted
as the fields of the country.
They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the Jubilee.
Notwithstanding, the cities of the Levites and the houses of the cities of their
possession may the Levites redeem at any time.
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold and the city
of his possession shall go out in the year of Jubilee.
For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the
children of Israel.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their
perpetual possession.
And if thy brother be waxen poor and fallen in decay with thee, then thou shalt
relieve him.
Yea, though he be a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with thee.
Take thou no usury of him, or increase, but fear thy God, that thy brother may
live with thee.
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy vittles for
increase.
I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you
the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor and be sold unto thee,
thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant, but as an hired servant,
and as a sojourner.
He shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of Jubilee.
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him,
and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his father
shall he return.
For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.
They shall not be sold as bondmen.
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.
Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the
heathen that are round about you.
Of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall
ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land,
and they shall be your possession.
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit
them for a possession.
They shall be your bondmen for ever.
But over your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another
with rigor.
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him
wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee,
or to the stock of the stranger's family, after that he is sold, he may be redeemed
again.
One of his brethren may redeem him, either his uncle or his uncle's son may
redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him.
Or if he be able, he may redeem himself, and he shall reckon with him that bought
him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of Jubilee.
And the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years,
according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again
the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
And if there remain but few years unto the year of Jubilee, then he shall count with
him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his
redemption.
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him, and the others shall not rule
with rigor over him in thy sight.
And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of
Jubilee, both he and his children with him.
For unto me 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.