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The Book of Leviticus 25

25 And Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come to the land that I am giving to you, then the land must keep a sabbath, a sabbath for Yahweh. 3 Six years you must plant your field, and six years you must prune your vineyard and gather its produce. 4 And in the seventh year, there must be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath for Yahweh. You must not plant your field and you must not prune your vineyard. 5 You must not harvest the second growth of your harvest and you must not gather the grapes of your unpruned vines. It will be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land will be for you, as food for you, and for your male slave, and for your female slave, and for your hired servant, and for the foriegn resident who is sojourning with you, 7 and for your livestock and for the wild animal that is in your land, all its yield will be for eating.

8 And you must count for yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and there will be for you a period of seven sabbaths of years, 49 years. 9 And you must cause the horn blast to be heard on the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month. On the Day of Atonement you must cause the horn to be heard throughout all your land. 10 And you must set apart the year, year 50, and proclaim freedom in the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a jubilee for you and you must return a man to his property and you must return a man to his family. 11 That year, year 50, will be a jubilee for you. You must not plant and not harvest its second growth and not harvest its unpruned vines. 12 For it is a jubilee, it will be holy for you. You must eat its yield from the field.

13 In this Year of Jubilee you must return a man to his property. 14 And if you sell something sold to your fellow citizen or buy from the hand of your fellow citizen, a man must not oppress his brother. 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee you must buy from your fellow citizen. According to the number of years of yield he must sell to you. 16 According to the multitude of the years you must increase its purchase price, but according to the fewness of the years you must decrease its purchase price, because of the number of yields he is selling to you. 17 And you must not oppress, a man his fellow citizen. And you must fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

18 And you must do my statutes, and my laws you must keep and do them. And you will dwell on the land securely. 19 And the land will give its fruit, and you will eat to satisfaction and dwell securely on it. 20 And if you say, “What will we eat in the seventh year? Look, we cannot plant and we cannot gather our yield.” 21 Then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, and it will produce yield for three years. 22 And you will plant in the eighth year and you will eat from the old yield until the ninth year, until its yield comes in you will eat the old. 23 And the land must not be sold for perpetuity, for the land belongs to me. For you are sojourners and temporary residents with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession you must give redemption for the land. 25 If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his property, then his redeemer nearest to him may come and redeem the things sold of his brother. 26 And if a man does not have a redeemer for it, but his hand produces and he finds enough for its redemption, 27 then he may calculate the years of its sale and return the balance to the man whom he sold it to. And he may return to his property. 28 And if his hand does not find enough to get it back for himself, then his sold things will remain in the hand of he who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. And it will go out in the Jubilee and he will return to his property.

29 And if a man sells a residential house of a walled city, then his right of redemption will be until the completion of the year of its sale. It will be the days of his right of redemption. 30 And if it is not redeemed for him up to the fulfilling of an entire year, then the house which is in the city which has its wall will belong in perpetuity to him who bought it and to his descendants. It will not go out in the Jubilee. 31 And the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be considered as the field of the land. There will be redemption for it, and in the Jubilee it will go out. 32 As for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the right of redemption is permanent for the Levites. 33 And whatever is from the Levites he may redeem, and a sold house or a city of his posession will go out in the Jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites—it is their possession among the sons of Israel. 34 And the field of the pastureland of their cities must not be sold because it is their permanent possession.

35 And if your brother becomes poor and his hand is shaky with you, then you must support him as a sojourner or temporary resident and he will live with you. 36 Do not take from him interest or usury, and you must fear your God and your brother may live with you. 37 Your silver you must not give to him with interest and for profit you must 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 your God.

39 And if your brother with you becomes poor and is sold to you, you must not make him work the work of a slave. 40 Like a hired worker, like a temporary resident, he must be with you. Until the Year of Jubilee he will serve with you. 41 And he will go away from you, he and his sons with him, and he will return to his clan. And he will return to the possession of his fathers. 42 For they are my servants, them which I brought out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold in a slave sale. 43 You must not rule over him with ruthlessness, and you must fear your God. 44 As for your male slave and your female slave who you have for yourself, from the nations that surround you, from them you may acquire a male slave or a female slave. 45 And also from the sons of the sojourners who are dwelling with you, from them you may acquire, and from their clans who are with you, who have given birth in your land—they may become your property. 46 And you may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession, you may let them work permanently. But as for your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man with his brother, you must not rule over him with ruthlessness.

47 And if the hand of a sojourner or a temporary resident with you has produced, and your brother with you becomes poor and is sold to a sojourner, a temporary resident with you, or to a descendant of a clan of a sojourner, 48 after he has been sold, there will be redemption for him. One of his brothers may redeem him, 49 or his uncle, or the son of his uncle may redeem him; or a relative of his flesh from his clan may redeem him. Or, if his hand has produced, then he may redeem himself. 50 And he will calculate with his buyer from the year he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee, and the silver of his sale must be according to the number of years; like the days of a hired worker it will be with him. 51 If there are still many of the years, according to them he must pay back his redemption from the silver of his purchase. 52 And if a few of the years until the Year of Jubilee are left, then he must calculate for him according to his years. He must pay back his redemption. 53 Like a hired worker year by year he will be with him. He must not rule over him with ruthlessness in your eyes. 54 And if he is not redeemed by these, then he must go out in the Year of Jubilee, he and his sons with him. 55 For to me the sons of Israel are servants. They are my servants, them which I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

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