Leviticus:25:8-55
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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 .
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Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile 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 .
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And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year ,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof :
it shall be a jubile unto you ;
and ye shall return every man unto his possession ,
and ye shall return every man unto his family .
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A jubile 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 .
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For it is the jubile ;
it shall be holy unto you :
ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field .
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In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession .
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And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour ,
or buyest ought of thy neighbour '
s hand ,
ye shall not oppress one another :
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According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour ,
and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee :
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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 .
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Ye shall not therefore oppress one another ;
but thou shalt fear thy God :
for I am the LORD your God .
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Wherefore ye shall do my statutes ,
and keep my judgments ,
and do them ;
and ye shall dwell in the land in safety .
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And the land shall yield her fruit ,
and ye shall eat your fill ,
and dwell therein in safety .
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And if ye shall say ,
What shall we eat the seventh year ?
behold ,
we shall not sow ,
nor gather in our increase :
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Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year ,
and it shall bring forth fruit for three years .
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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 .
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The land shall not be sold for ever :
for the land is mine ;
for ye are strangers and sojourners with me .
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And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land .
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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 .
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And if the man have none to redeem it ,
and himself be able to redeem it ;
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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 .
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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 jubile :
and in the jubile it shall go out ,
and he shall return unto his possession .
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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 .
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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 for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations :
it shall not go out in the jubile .
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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 jubile .
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Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites ,
and the houses of the cities of their possession ,
may the Levites redeem at any time .
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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 jubile :
for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel .
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But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold ;
for it is their perpetual possession .
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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 .
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Take thou no usury of him ,
or increase :
but fear thy God ;
that thy brother may live with thee .
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Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury ,
nor lend him thy victuals for increase .
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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 .
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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 bondservant :
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But as an hired servant ,
and as a sojourner ,
he shall be with thee ,
and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile :
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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 fathers shall he return .
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For they are my servants ,
which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt :
they shall not be sold as bondmen .
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Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour ;
but shalt fear thy God .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 rigour .
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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 :
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After that he is sold he may be redeemed again ;
one of his brethren may redeem him :
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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 .
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And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile :
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 .
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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 .
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And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile ,
then he shall count with him ,
and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption .
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And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him :
and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight .
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And if he be not redeemed in these years ,
then he shall go out in the year of jubile ,
both he ,
and his children with him .
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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 .