Leviticus:25

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* And Yahweh spoke to Moses in mount Sinai , saying , * Speak to the sons of Israel , and say to them , When you (note :){+}(:note ) come into the land which I give you {+}, then the land will keep a Sabbath to Yahweh . * Six years you will sow your field , and six years you will prune your vineyard , and gather in its fruits ; * but in the seventh year will be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land , a Sabbath to Yahweh : you will neither sow your field , nor prune your vineyard . * That which grows of itself of your harvest you will not reap , and the grapes of your undressed vine you will not gather : it will be a year of solemn rest for the land . * And the Sabbath of the land will be for food for you (note :){+}(:note ); for you , and for your male slave and for your female slave , and for your hired worker and for your stranger , who sojourn with you . * And for your cattle , and for the beasts that are in your land , will all its increase be for food . * And you will number seven Sabbaths of years to yourself , seven times seven years ; and there will be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years , even forty and nine years . * Then you will send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month ; in the day of atonement you (note :){+}(:note ) will send abroad the trumpet throughout all your {+} land . * And you (note :){+}(:note ) will hallow the fiftieth year , and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants : it will be a jubilee to you {+}; and you {+} will return every man to his possession , and you {+} will return every man to his family . * A jubilee will that fiftieth year be to you (note :){+}(:note ): you {+} will not sow , neither reap that which grows of itself in it , nor gather [the grapes ] in it of the undressed vines . * For it is a jubilee ; it will be holy to you (note :){+}(:note ): you {+} will eat its increase out of the field . * In this year of jubilee you (note :){+}(:note ) will return every man to his possession . * And if you (note :){+}(:note ) sell anything to your associate , or buy from your associate , you {+} will not wrong one another . * According to the number of years after the jubilee you will buy of your associate , [and ] according to the number of years of the crops he will sell to you . * According to the multitude of the years you will increase its price , and according to the fewness of the years you will diminish the price of it ; for the number of the crops he sells to you . * And you (note :){+}(:note ) will not wrong , a man and his associate ; but you will fear your God : for I am Yahweh your {+} God . * Therefore you (note :){+}(:note ) will do my statutes , and keep my ordinances and do them ; and you {+} will dwell in the land in safety . * And the land will yield its fruit , and you (note :){+}(:note ) will eat your {+} fill , and dwell in it in safety . * And if you (note :){+}(:note ) will say , What shall we eat the seventh year ? Look , we will not sow , nor gather in our increase ; * then I will command my blessing on you (note :){+}(:note ) in the sixth year , and it will bring forth fruit for the three years . * And you (note :){+}(:note ) will sow the eighth year , and eat of the fruits , the old store ; until the ninth year , until its fruits come in , you {+} will eat the old store . * And the land will not be sold in perpetuity ; for the land is mine : for you (note :){+}(:note ) are strangers and sojourners with me . * And in all the land of your (note :){+}(:note ) possession you {+} will grant a redemption for the land . * If your brother is waxed poor , and sells some of his possession , then his kinsman who is next to him will come , and will redeem that which his brother has sold . * And if a man has no one to redeem it , and he is waxed rich and finds enough to redeem it ; * then let him reckon the years of its sale , and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it ; and he will return to his possession . * But if he is not able to get it back for himself , then that which he has sold will remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the year of jubilee : and in the jubilee it will go out , and he will return to his possession . * And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city , then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold ; for a full year he will have the right of redemption . * And if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year , then the house that is in the walled city will be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it , throughout his generations : it will not go out in the jubilee . * But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them will be reckoned with the fields of the country : they may be redeemed , and they will go out in the jubilee . * Nevertheless the cities of the Levites , the houses of the cities of their possession , the Levites may redeem at any time . * And when one of the Levites redeems , the house that was sold , in the the city of his possession , will go out in the jubilee ; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel . * But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold ; for it is their perpetual possession . * And if your brother is waxed poor , and his hand fails with you ; then you will uphold him : [as ] a stranger [who is a ] sojourner he will live with you . * Take no interest of him or increase , but fear your God ; that your brother may live with you . * You will not give him your money on interest , nor give him your victuals for increase . * I am Yahweh your (note :){+}(:note ) God , who brought you {+} forth out of the land of Egypt , to give you {+} the land of Canaan , [and ] to be your {+} God . * And if your brother is waxed poor with you , and sells himself to you ; you will not make him to serve as a slave . * As a hired worker , and as a sojourner , he will be with you ; he will serve with you to the year of jubilee : * and then he will go out from you , he and his sons with him , and then will return to his own family , and to the possession of his fathers he will return . * For they are my slaves , whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt : they will not be sold as a slave . * You will not rule over him with rigor , but will fear your God . * And as for your male slave , and your female slave , whom you will have ; of the nations that are round about you (note :){+}(:note ), of them you {+} will buy a male slave and a female slave . * Moreover of the sons of the strangers who sojourn among you (note :){+}(:note ), of them you {+} will buy , and of their families who are with you {+}, which they have begotten in your {+} land : and they will be your {+} possession . * And you (note :){+}(:note ) will make them an inheritance for your {+} sons after you {+}, to hold for a possession ; of them you {+} will take your {+} slaves forever : but over your {+} brothers the sons of Israel you {+} will not rule , one over another , with rigor . * And if a stranger [who is a ] sojourner with you is waxed rich , and your brother is waxed poor beside him , and sells himself to a stranger [who is a ] sojourner with you , or to the stock of the stranger 's family ; * after he is sold he may be redeemed : one of his brothers may redeem him ; * or his uncle , or his uncle 's son , may redeem him , or any who is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him ; or if he is waxed rich , he may redeem himself . * And he will reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee : and the price of his sale will be according to the number of years ; according to the time of a hired worker he will be with him . * If there are yet many years , according to them he will give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for . * And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee , then he will reckon with him ; according to his years he will give back the price of his redemption . * As a worker hired year by year he will be with him : he will not rule with rigor over him in your sight . * And if he is not redeemed by these [means ], then he will go out in the year of jubilee , he , and his sons with him . * For to me the sons of Israel are slaves ; they are my slaves whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt : I am Yahweh your (note :){+}(:note ) God .

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