Leviticus:25

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* Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai , * "Speak to the children of Israel , and tell them , 'When you come into the land which I give you , then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh . * Six years you shall sow your field , and six years you shall prune your vineyard , and gather in its fruits ; * but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land , a Sabbath to Yahweh . You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard . * What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap , and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather . It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land . * The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you ; for yourself , for your servant , for your maid , for your hired servant , and for your stranger , who lives as a foreigner with you . * For your livestock also , and for the animals that are in your land , shall all its increase be for food . * "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years , seven times seven years ; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years , even forty-nine years . * Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month . On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land . * You shall make the fiftieth year holy , and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants . It shall be a jubilee to you ; and each of you shall return to his own property , and each of you shall return to his family . * That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you . In it you shall not sow , neither reap that which grows of itself , nor gather from the undressed vines . * For it is a jubilee ; it shall be holy to you . You shall eat of its increase out of the field . * "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property . * "'If you sell anything to your neighbor , or buy from your neighbor , you shall not wrong one another . * According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor . According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you . * According to the length of the years you shall increase its price , and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price ; for he is selling the number of the crops to you . * You shall not wrong one another ; but you shall fear your God : for I am Yahweh your God . * "'Therefore you shall do my statutes , and keep my ordinances and do them ; and you shall dwell in the land in safety . * The land shall yield its fruit , and you shall eat your fill , and dwell therein in safety . * If you said , "What shall we eat the seventh year ? Behold , we shall not sow , nor gather in our increase "; * then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year , and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years . * You shall sow the eighth year , and eat of the fruits , the old store ; until the ninth year , until its fruits come in , you shall eat the old store . * "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity , for the land is mine ; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me . * In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land . * "'If your brother becomes poor , and sells some of his possessions , then his kinsman who is next to him shall come , and redeem that which his brother has sold . * If a man has no one to redeem it , and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it ; * then let him reckon the years since its sale , and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it ; and he shall return to his property . * But if he isn 't able to get it back for himself , then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee : and in the Jubilee it shall be released , and he shall return to his property . * "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city , then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold . For a full year he shall have the right of redemption . * If it isn 't redeemed within the space of a full year , then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it , throughout his generations . It shall not be released in the Jubilee . * But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country : they may be redeemed , and they shall be released in the Jubilee . * "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites , the houses in the cities of their possession , the Levites may redeem at any time . * The Levites may redeem the house that was sold , and the city of his possession , and it shall be released in the Jubilee ; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel . * But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold ; for it is their perpetual possession . * "'If your brother has become poor , and his hand can 't support him among you ; then you shall uphold him . He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident . * Take no interest from him or profit , but fear your God ; that your brother may live among you . * You shall not lend him your money at interest , nor give him your food for profit . * I am Yahweh your God , who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt , to give you the land of Canaan , and to be your God . * "'If your brother has grown poor among you , and sells himself to you ; you shall not make him to serve as a slave . * As a hired servant , and as a temporary resident , 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 children with him , and shall return to his own family , and to the possession of his fathers . * For they are my servants , whom I brought out of the land of Egypt . They shall not be sold as slaves . * You shall not rule over him with harshness , but shall fear your God . * "'As for your male and your female slaves , whom you may have ; of the nations that are around you , from them you may buy male and female slaves . * Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you , of them you may buy , and of their families who are with you , which they have conceived in your land ; and they will be your property . * You may make them an inheritance for your children after you , to hold for a possession ; of them may you take your slaves forever : but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule , one over another , with harshness . * "'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich , and your brother beside him has grown poor , and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you , or to a member 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 a close relative to him of his family may redeem him ; or if he has grown rich , he may redeem himself . * He shall 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 shall be according to the number of years ; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him . * If there are yet many years , according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for . * If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee , then he shall reckon with him ; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption . * As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him : he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight . * If he isn 't redeemed by these means , then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee , he , and his children with him . * For to me the children of Israel are servants ; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt . I am Yahweh your God .

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