Leviticus:25

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* And Jehovah spoke to Moses in Mount Sinai , saying . * Speak to the sons of Israel , and say to them , When you come into the land which I am giving to you , then the land shall keep a sabbath to Jehovah . * You shall sow your field six years , and you shall prune your vineyard six years , and shall gather its produce . * And in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land , a sabbath to Jehovah . You shall not sow your field , and you shall not prune your vineyard . * You shall not reap that which grows of itself of your harvest ; and you shall not gather the grapes of your unkept vine ; it shall be a year of rest to the land . * And the sabbath of the land shall be to you for food , to you , and to your male slave , and to you female slave , and to your hired one , and to your tenant , those living among you ; * and to your livestock , and to the animal in your land , all its produce shall be for food . * And you shall number to yourself seven sabbaths of years , seven years times seven , and all the days of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty nine years . * And you shall let a ram 's horn resound , a signal in the seventh month , in the tenth of the month ; in the day of atonement , less a ram 's horn pass throughout all your land ; * and you shall make the fiftieth year holy , a year . And you shall proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants ; it shall be a jubilee to you . And you shall return every man to his possession ; yea , you shall turn back each to his family . * It is a jubilee , the fiftieth year ; it is a year to you . You shall not sow , nor reap that which grows of itself , nor gather from its unkept vines ; * for it is a jubilee , it is holy to you ; you shall eat its increase out of the field . * In the year of jubilee you shall return each one to his possession . * And if you sell anything to your neighbor , or buy from the hand of your neighbor , you shall not each man oppress his brother . * By the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor ; by the number of the years of increase he shall sell to you ; * according to the many years you shall increase its price ; and by the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price , for he is selling to you the number of crops . * And you shall not oppress each man his neighbor , and you shall fear your God , for I am Jehovah your God . * And you shall do My statutes , and you shall keep my judgments and shall do them ; and you shall live on the land securely . * And the land shall give its fruit , and you shall eat to satisfaction ; and you shall dwell securely on it . * And when you say , What shall we eat in the seventh year ; for , lo , we may not sow nor gather our increase ? * Then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year , and it shall produce the increase for three years ; * and you shall sow the eighth year , and shall eat of the old crop until the ninth year , until the coming in of its crop ; you shall eat of the old . * And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity ; for the land is Mine ; for you are aliens and tenants with Me . * And you shall grant a redemption for the land in all the land of your possession . * If your brother has become poor and has sold his possessions then his kinsman redeemer shall come , and he shall redeem the thing his brother sold . * But when a man has no redeemer , and his own hand has reached out , and he has enough for its redemption , * then he shall count the years since its sale , and shall give back the surplus to the man to whom he sold ; and he shall return to his possession . * And if his hand has not found enough to give back to him , then the thing he sold shall be in the hand of him who buys it until the year of jubilee . And it shall go out in the jubilee , and he shall return to his possession . * And when a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city , then his right of redemption shall be the end of the year of its sale ; his right of redemption shall be a year of days * And if it is not redeemed until a full year is complete , then the house in the walled city shall be established to perpetuity to its buyer , throughout his generations ; it shall not go out in the jubilee . * But the houses of the villages which have no walls all around shall be counted as the field of the country ; there are redemption rights to it . And it shall go out in the jubilee . * As to the cities of the Levites , houses of the cities of their possession , never ending redemption rights shall be to the Levites . * And that which one redeems from the Levites , both the sale of a house , and the city of his possession , shall go out in the jubilee . For the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel . * And the field , the open land of their cities , shall not be sold ; for it is a never ending possession to them . * And when your brother has become poor , and his hand has failed with you , then you shall help him . He shall live with you as an alien and a tenant . * You shall take no interest from him , or increase ; and you shall fear your God ; and the life of your brother is with you . * You shall not give silver to him with interest , and you shall not give your food for increase . * I am Jehovah who has brought you out of the land of Egypt , to give to you the land of Canaan , to become your God . * And when your brother becomes poor with you , and he has been sold to you , you shall not lay on him the service of a slave . * He shall be with you as a hireling , as a tenant he shall be with you ; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee ; * then he shall go out from you , he and his sons with him , and shall return to his family ; he shall even return to the possession of his father . * For they are My servants , whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt ; they shall not be sold with the sale of a slave . * You shall not rule over him with severity , and you shall fear your God . * And your male slave and your female slave whom you have shall be from the nations who are all around you , you shall buy them as male slave or female slave ; * and also you may buy of the sons of the tenants who are sojourning with you , and of their families who are with you , which they have fathered in your land . And they shall be a possession to you . * And you shall take them for inheritance to your sons after you , to hold for a possession ; you may lay service on them forever . But on your brothers , the sons of Israel , one over another , you shall not rule over him with severity . * And if lifts up a hand of an alien or a tenant with you , and your brother grows poor with him , and he sells himself to an alien , a tenant with you , or to the offshoot of the family of an alien , * after he has been sold , there is a redemption to him ; one of his brothers may redeem him , * or his uncle , or a son of his uncle , may redeem him , or any of his fleshly relations of his family may redeem him . Or , if his own hand has reached out to gain , then he may be redeemed . * And he shall count with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him until the year of jubilee , and the silver of his sale shall be by the number of years . As the days of a hireling , it shall be with him . * If there are yet many years according to them , he shall give back his redemption , from the silver of his purchase . * And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee , then he shall count with him according to his years he shall give back his redemption price . * As a hireling , year by year , he shall be with him , and he shall not rule him with severity before your eyes . * And if he is not redeemed in this way , then he shall go out in the year of jubilee , he and his sons with him . * For the sons of Israel are servants to Me ; they are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt ; I am Jehovah your God .

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