ULT LEV Chapter 25

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25 And Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, ‘When you come to the land which I am giving to you, then the land shall rest as a sabbath to Yahweh. 3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its produce. 4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of sabbaths for the land, a sabbath to Yahweh. Your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune, 5 The self-grown produce of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your untrimmed vines you shall not gather. It shall be a year of sabbath for the land.

6 And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for you, and for your male servant, and for your female servant, and for your hired worker, and for your temporary resident who sojourns with you, 7 and for your cattle, and for the animals that are in your land. All its produce shall be to eat.

8 And you shall count for yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and they shall be for you the days of seven sabbaths of years: 49 years. 9 And you shall cause a horn of loud blast to pass through in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month. On the Day of Atonement you shall cause a horn to pass through in all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate the year, the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and you shall return, each to his possession, and each to his family you shall return.

11 A jubilee it shall be, the year, the fiftieth year, for you. You shall not sow, and you shall not reap its self-grown produce, and you shall not gather from its untrimmed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee. Holy it shall be to you. From the field you shall eat its produce. 13 In this year of jubilee you shall return, each to his possession.

14 And when you sell something to your fellow or buy from the hand of your fellow, each of you shall not oppress his brother. 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy from your fellow. According to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. 16 To the mouth of the multitude of the years you shall increase its price, and to the mouth of the fewness of the years you shall decrease its price, for he is selling to you the number of crops. 17 And you shall not oppress each his fellow citizen, but you shall fear from your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

18 And you shall do my statutes, and my judgments you shall keep and do them, and you shall dwell on the land in security. 19 And the land shall give its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction, and you shall dwell in security on it. 20 And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year? Look, we shall not sow and we shall not gather our produce.’ 21 And I will command my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall make the produce for three years. 22 And you shall sow in the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old produce until the ninth year. Until its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.

23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine, for you are sojourners and temporary residents with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession, you shall give redemption for the land.

25 If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his possession, then his redeemer, the nearest to him, shall come and redeem the thing sold by his brother. 26 And a man, when there is not to him a redeemer, but his hand reaches and he finds enough for his redemption, 27 then he shall calculate the years of its sale and return the excess to the man that he sold to him, and he shall return to his possession. 28 But if his hand does not find enough to return to him, then his sold thing shall be in the hand of the one who bought it until the year of jubilee. And it shall go out in the jubilee, and he shall return to his possession.

29 And a man, when he sells a house of dwelling in a walled city, then its redemption shall be until a year from its sale completes. Days shall be its redemption. 30 And if it is not redeemed until a complete year fulfills for it, then the house which is in the city which has a wall to it shall be to the buyer of it in perpetuity, to his generations. It shall not go out in the jubilee. 31 But houses of the villages which there is not a surrounding wall to them shall be counted on the field of the land. Redemption shall be to it, and in the jubilee it shall go out.

32 And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, a redemption of perpetuity shall be for the Levites. 33 And whatever one from the Levites may redeem, and it shall go out in the jubilee: the sale of house and city of his possession, for the houses of the cities of the Levites, it is their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel. 34 And a field of the pastureland of their cities shall not be sold, for it is a possession of perpetuity for them.

35 And if your brother becomes poor, and his hand wavers with you, then you shall strengthen him; and as a sojourner and temporary resident he shall live with you. 36 You shall not take from him interest or profit, but you shall fear from your God, and your brother shall live with you. 37 Your silver you shall not give to him with interest, and for profit you shall not give your food. 38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to be God to you.

39 And if your brother with you becomes poor and sells himself to you, you shall not work him with the work of a slave. 40 Like a hired worker, like a temporary resident he shall be with you; until the year of jubilee he shall work with you. 41 Then he shall go out from with you, he and his children with him, and he shall return to his family, and to the possession of his fathers he shall return. 42 For they are my servants whom I brought them out from the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold in a sale of a slave. 43 You shall not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear from your God.

44 And your male slave and your female slave who are to you—from the nations who are around you, from them you may buy a male slave and a female slave. 45 And also from the sons of the temporary residents, the sojourners with you, from them you may buy, and from their clans who are with you, whom they bore in your land, and they shall be to you for a possession. 46 And you may give them as an inheritance to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession. You may make them serve to perpetuity, but your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man with his brother, you shall not rule over him with harshness.

47 And if the hand of a sojourner or temporary resident with you reaches, and your brother with him becomes poor and sells himself to the sojourner—a temporary resident—with you, or to a member of the clan of a sojourner, 48 after he is sold, redemption may be to him. One from his brothers may redeem him, 49 or his uncle or the son of his uncle may redeem him, or someone from the relatives of his flesh from his clan may redeem him, or if his hand reaches, then he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year of his selling himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the silver of his sale shall be by the number of years. Like the days of a hired worker he shall be with him. 51 If there are still many in the years, to their mouth he shall pay back his redemption from the silver of his purchase. 52 But if few remain in the years until the year of jubilee, then he shall calculate with him. According to the mouth of his years he shall pay back his redemption. 53 Like a hired worker year by year he shall be with him. He shall not rule over him with harshness before your eyes. 54 And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him. 55 For the sons of Israel are servants to me. They are my servants whom I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

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