Leviticus:25

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* And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai , saying , * Speak to the children of Israel , and say to them , When ye come into the land which I give you , then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD . (note :)keep : Hebrews . rest (:note ) * Six years thou shalt sow thy field , and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard , and gather in its fruit ; * But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land , a sabbath for the LORD : thou shalt neither sow thy field , nor prune thy vineyard . * That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap , neither gather the grapes of thy untrimmed vine : it is a year of rest to the land . (note :)of thy vine …: Hebrews . of thy separation (:note ) * And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you ; for thee , and for thy male servant , and for thy female servant , and for thy hired servant , and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee , * And for thy cattle , and for the beast that in thy land , shall all the increase of it be food . * And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years to thee , seven times seven years ; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to thee forty and nine years . * Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth of the seventh month , in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land . (note :)of the jubile : Hebrews . loud of sound (:note ) * And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year , and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants : it shall be a jubilee to you ; and ye shall return every man to his possession , and ye shall return every man to his family . * A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you : ye shall not sow , neither reap that which groweth of itself in it , nor gather in it of thy untrimmed vine . * For it the jubilee ; it shall be holy to you : ye shall eat the increase of it out of the field . * In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession . * And if thou shalt sell any to thy neighbour , or buy from thy neighbour ’s hand , ye shall not oppress one another : * According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour , according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to thee : * According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price of it , and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it : for to the number of the fruits doth he sell to thee . * Ye shall not therefore oppress one another ; but thou shalt fear thy God : for I the LORD your God . * Therefore ye shall do my statutes , and keep my judgments , and do them ; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety . * And the land shall yield her fruit , and ye shall eat your fill , and dwell in it in safety . * And if ye shall say , What shall we eat the seventh year ? behold , we shall not sow , nor gather in our increase : * Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year , and it shall bring forth fruit for three years . * And ye shall sow the eighth year , and eat of old fruit until the ninth year ; until its fruits come in ye shall eat the old . * The land shall not be sold for ever : for the land mine ; for ye strangers and sojourners with me . (note :)for ever : or , to be quite cut off : Hebrews . for cutting off (:note ) * And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land . * If thy brother shall have become poor , and have sold of his possession , and if any of his kin shall come to redeem it , then shall he redeem that which his brother sold . * And if the man shall have none to redeem it , and himself be able to redeem it ; (note :)himself …: Hebrews . his hand hath attained and found sufficiency (:note ) * Then let him count the years of the sale of it , and restore the balance to the man to whom he sold it ; that he may return to his possession . * But if he shall not be able to restore to him , then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee : and in the jubilee it shall go out , and he shall return to his possession . * And if a man shall sell a dwelling house in a walled city , then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold ; a full year may he redeem it . * And if it shall not be redeemed within the space of a full year , then the house that in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations : it shall not go out in the jubilee . * But the houses of the villages which have no walls around them shall be counted as the fields of the country : they may be redeemed , and they shall go out in the jubilee . (note :)they may …: Hebrews . redemption belongeth unto it (:note ) * However the cities of the Levites , the houses of the cities of their possession , may the Levites redeem at any time . * And if a man shall purchase of the Levites , then the house that was sold , and the city of his possession , shall go out in jubilee : for the houses of the cities of the Levites their possession among the children of Israel . (note :)a man …: or , one of the Levites redeem them (:note ) * But the field of the common land of their cities may not be sold ; for it their perpetual possession . * And if thy brother shall have become poor , and falleth into poverty among you ; then thou shalt relieve him : a stranger , or a sojourner ; that he may live with thee . (note :)fallen …: Hebrews . his hand faileth (:note )relieve : Heb . strengthen * Take thou no interest of him , or increase : but fear thy God ; that thy brother may live with thee . * Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest , nor lend him thy food for increase . * I the LORD your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt , to give you the land of Canaan , to be your God . * And if thy brother by thee shall have become poor , and be sold to thee ; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a slave : (note :)compel …: Hebrews . serve thyself with him with the service , etc (:note ) * as an hired servant , as a sojourner , he shall be with thee , shall serve thee to the year of jubilee : * And shall he depart from thee , he and his children with him , and shall return to his own family , and to the possession of his fathers shall he return . * For they my servants , which I brought out of the land of Egypt : they shall not be sold as slaves . (note :)as …: Hebrews . with the sale of a bondman (:note ) * Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour ; but shalt fear thy God . * Both thy male and female slaves , which thou shalt have , from the heathen that are around you ; from them shall ye buy male and female slaves . * Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you , of them shall ye buy , and of their families that with you , whom they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession . * And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you , to inherit a possession ; they shall be your slaves for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel , ye shall not rule one over another with rigour . (note :)they …: Hebrews . ye shall serve yourselves with them (:note ) * And if a sojourner or a stranger shall become rich by thee , and thy brother by him shall become poor , and sell himself to the stranger sojourner by thee , or to the stock of the stranger ’s family : (note :)wax rich …: Hebrews . his hand obtain , etc (:note ) * After that he is sold he may be redeemed again ; one of his brethren may redeem him : * Either his uncle , or his uncle ’s son , may redeem him , or that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him ; or if he is able , he may redeem himself . * And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him to the year of jubilee : and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years , according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him . * If yet many years , according to them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for . * And if there shall remain but few years to the year of jubilee , then he shall count with him , according to his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption . * as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him : shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight . * And if he shall not be redeemed in these , then he shall go out in the year of jubilee , he , and his children with him . (note :)in these …: or , by these means (:note ) * For to me the children of Israel servants ; they my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt : I the LORD your God .

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