25The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,H3068H1696H4872H2022H5514H5592"Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD.H1696H1121H3478H559H935H776H5414H776H7673H7676H30683For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.H8337H8141H2232H7704H8337H8141H2168H3754H622H83934But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.H7637H8141H7676H7677H776H7676H3068H2232H7704H2168H37545Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.H5599H7105H7114H1219H6025H5139H8141H7677H7766Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,H7676H776H402H5650H519H7916H8453H14817as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.H929H2416H776H8393H3988" 'Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.H5608H7651H7676H8141H7651H6471H7651H8141H3117H7651H7676H8141H705H8672H81419Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.H7782H8643H5674H6218H7637H2320H3117H3725H7782H5674H77610Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.H6942H2572H8141H8141H7121H1865H776H3427H3104H7725H376H272H7725H376H494011The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.H3104H2572H8141H8141H2232H7114H5599H1219H513912For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.H3104H6944H398H8393H770413" 'In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.H8141H3104H7725H376H27214" 'If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.H4376H4465H5997H7069H5997H3027H3238H376H25115You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.H4557H8141H310H3104H7069H5997H4557H8141H8393H437616When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.H6310H7230H8141H7235H4736H6310H4591H8141H4591H4736H4557H8393H437617Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.H3238H376H5997H3372H430H3068H43018" 'Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.H6213H2708H8104H4941H6213H3427H776H98319Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.H776H5414H6529H398H7648H3427H98320You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?"H559H398H7637H8141H2232H622H839321I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.H6680H1293H8345H8141H6213H8393H7969H814122While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.H2232H8066H8141H398H3465H8393H8671H8141H8393H935H398H346523" 'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.H776H4376H6783H776H1616H845324Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.H776H272H5414H1353H77625" 'If anyone among you becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.H251H4134H4376H272H7138H935H1350H1350H251H446526If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves,H376H1350H3027H1767H5381H4672H135327they are to determine the value for the years since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.H2803H8141H4465H7725H5736H376H4376H7725H27228But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.H3027H1767H4672H7725H4465H3027H7069H8141H3104H3104H3318H7725H27229" 'Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it.H376H4376H4186H1004H2346H5892H1353H8552H8141H4465H3117H135330If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer's descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.H1350H4390H8549H8141H1004H2346H5892H6965H6783H7069H1755H3318H310431But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.H1004H2691H2346H5439H2803H7704H776H1353H3318H310432" 'The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.H5892H3881H1004H5892H272H3881H1353H576933So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.H1350H3881H1004H4465H5892H272H3318H3104H1004H5892H3881H272H8432H1121H347834But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.H7704H4054H5892H4376H5769H27235" 'If any of your own people become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.H251H4134H4131H3027H2388H1616H8453H241636Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that your poor neighbors may continue to live among you.H3947H5392H8636H3372H430H251H241637You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.H5414H3701H5392H5414H400H476838I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.H3068H430H3318H776H4714H5414H776H3667H43039" 'If any of your own people become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.H251H4134H4376H5647H5656H565040They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.H7916H8453H5647H8141H310441Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.H3318H1121H7725H4940H272H1H772542Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.H5650H3318H776H4714H4376H4466H565043Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.H7287H6531H3372H43044" 'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.H5650H519H1471H5439H7069H5650H51945You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.H1121H8453H1481H7069H4940H3205H776H27246You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.H5157H1121H310H3423H272H5647H5769H251H1121H3478H7287H376H251H653147" 'If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your own people become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's clan,H1616H8453H5381H3027H251H4134H4376H1616H8453H6133H1616H494048they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:H310H4376H1353H259H251H135049An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if any of them prosper, they may redeem themselves.H1730H1730H1121H1350H7607H1320H4940H1350H5381H1350H302750They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.H2803H7069H8141H4376H8141H3104H3701H4465H4557H8141H3117H791651If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.H7227H8141H6310H7725H1353H3701H473652If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.H7604H4592H8141H8141H3104H2803H6310H8141H7725H135353They are to be treated as hired workers from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.H8141H8141H7916H7287H6531H586954" 'Even if they are not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,H1350H3318H8141H3104H112155for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.H1121H3478H5650H5650H3318H776H4714H3068H430