Leviticus:25

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* And the Lord spoke unto Moses on mount Sinai , saying , * Speak unto the children of Israel , and say unto them , When ye come into the land which I give unto you ; then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord . * Six years shalt thou sow thy field , and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard , and gather in the fruit thereof ; * But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land , a sabbath of the Lord : thy field shalt thou not sow , and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune . * That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest shalt thou not reap , and the grapes of thy undressed vine shalt thou not gather : a year of rest shall it be unto the land . * And the sabbath of the land shall be unto you for food , for thee , and for thy man –servant , and for thy maid –servant , and for thy hired laborer , and for thy stranger , that sojourn with thee ; * And for thy cattle , and for the beasts that are in thy land , shall all its products be for food . * And thou shalt number unto thee seven sabbaths of years , seven years seven times ; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years . * And then shalt thou cause the sound of the cornet to be heard , in the seventh month , on the tenth day of the month : on the day of atonement shall ye sound the cornet throughout all your land . * And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year , and proclaim freedom throughout 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 this , the fiftieth year , be unto you : ye shall not sow , nor reap that which groweth of itself in it , nor gather in it the fruit of the undressed vines . * For it is the jubilee ; holy shall it be unto you : from the field shall ye eat the products thereof . * In this year of the jubilee shall ye return , every man , unto his possession . * And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor , or buy aught of thy neighbor ’s hand , ye shall not overreach one the other ; * According to the number of years after the jubilee shalt thou buy of thy neighbor , according unto the number of harvest –years shall he sell unto thee ; * According to the multitude of years shalt thou increase the price thereof , and according to the fewness of years shalt thou diminish the price thereof ; for a number of harvests doth he sell unto thee . * And ye shall not overreach one the other ; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God ; for I am the Lord your God . * And ye shall do my statutes , and my ordinances shall ye keep and do them ; and then shall ye dwell in the land in safety . * And the land shall yield its fruit , and ye shall eat your fill , and dwell in safety therein . * And if ye should say , What shall we eat in the seventh year ? behold , we are not permitted to sow , and we cannot gather in our harvest : * Then will I command my blessing unto you in the sixth year , and it shall bring forth a harvest for three years . * And when ye sow in the eighth year , then shall ye eat yet of the old harvest ; until the ninth year , until its harvest come in , shall ye eat of the old store . * And the land shall not be sold for a permanence ; for the land is mine ; for strangers and sojourners are ye with me . * And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land . * If thy brother become poor , and sell away some of his possession : then may his nearest of kin come and redeem what his brother hath sold . * And if the man have none to redeem it , and he acquire the means , sufficient to be able to redeem it himself : * Then let him reckon the years since his sale , and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it ; and so shall he return unto his possession . * But if his means do not suffice to enable him to restore it to him : then shall that which he hath sold remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of the jubilee ; and it shall be freed in the jubilee , and he shall return unto his possession . * And if a man sell a dwelling –house in a walled city : then shall the time of redemption last till the end of the year of his sale ; a full year shall his time of redemption last . * And if it be not redeemed within the expiration of a full year : then shall the house which is in the walled city remain as a permanence to him that bought it throughout his generations ; it shall not become freed 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 shall have the right of redemption , and they shall become freed in the jubilee . * And the cities of the Levites , the houses of the cities of their possession , a perpetual right of redemption shall belong to the Levites . * And if a man of the Levites redeem something : then shall the house that was sold , and the city of his possession , become freed in the jubilee ; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel . * And a field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold ; for a perpetual possession is it unto them . * And if thy brother become poor , and fall in decay with thee : then shalt thou assist him , a stranger , or a sojourner , that he may live with thee . * Thou shalt not take of him any usury or increase ; but thou shalt be afraid of thy God : that thy brother may live with thee . * Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury , nor lend him thy victuals for increase . * I am the Lord your God , who have brought you forth out of the land of Egypt , to give unto you the land of Canaan , to be unto you a God . * And if thy brother become poor near thee , and be sold unto thee : thou shalt not compel him to work as a bond –servant . * But as a hired laborer , as a sojourner , shall he be with thee ; until the year of the jubilee shall he serve with thee : * And then shall he depart from thee , he and his children with him ; and he shall return unto his own family , and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return . * For my servants are they , whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt : they shall not be sold as bond –men are sold . * Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor ; but thou shalt have fear of thy God . * But thy bond –man , and thy bond –woman that shall remain thine , shall be of the nations that are round about you ; of them may ye buy bond –man and bond –woman . * And also of the children of the strangers that sojourn with you , of them may ye buy , and of their families that are with you , which they have begotten in your land ; and they shall remain to you as a possession . * And ye may transfer them as an inheritance for your children after you , to inherit them for a possession ; you may hold them to service for ever ; but over your brethren the children of Israel , one over the other , ye shall not rule with rigor . * And if a stranger or sojourner wax rich near thee , and thy brother become poor near him , and he sell himself unto the sojourning stranger near thee , or to a descendant of a stranger ’s family : * After he hath sold himself shall he have the right of redemption ; one of his brethren may redeem him . * Either his uncle , or his uncle ’s son , may redeem him , or any that is near of kin unto him of his family may redeem him ; or if he obtain the means , he may redeem himself . * And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of the jubilee : and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years , as the time of a hired laborer shall he have been with him . * If there be yet many years , according to them shall he return the price of his redemption out of his purchase –money . * And if there remain but few years unto the year of the jubilee : then shall he reckon with him ; according to his years shall he return the price of his redemption . * As a laborer hired from year to year shall he be with him ; he shall not rule over him with rigor before thy eyes . * And if he be not redeemed by these means : then shall he go out in the year of the jubilee , both he , and his children with him . * For unto me are the children of Israel servants , my servants are they , whom I have brought forth out of the land of Egypt : I am the Eternal your God .

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