25The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and commanded himH3068H1696H4872H2022H5514H559 2to give the following regulations to the people of Israel. When you enter the land that the LORD is giving you, you shall honor the LORD by not cultivating the land every seventh year.H1696H1121H3478H559H935H776H5414H776H7673H7676H3068 3You shall plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather your crops for six years.H8337H8141H2232H7704H8337H8141H2168H3754H622H8393 4But the seventh year is to be a year of complete rest for the land, a year dedicated to the LORD. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards.H7637H8141H7676H7677H776H7676H3068H2232H7704H2168H3754 5Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without being planted, and do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines; it is a year of complete rest for the land.H5599H7105H7114H1219H6025H5139H8141H7677H776 6Although the land has not been cultivated during that year, it will provide food for you, your slaves, your hired men, the foreigners living with you,H7676H776H402H5650H519H7916H8453H1481 7your domestic animals, and the wild animals in your fields. Everything that it produces may be eaten.H929H2416H776H8393H398 8Count seven times seven years, a total of forty-nine years.H5608H7651H7676H8141H7651H6471H7651H8141H3117H7651H7676H8141H705H8672H8141 9Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, send someone to blow a trumpet throughout the whole land.H7782H8643H5674H6218H7637H2320H3117H3725H7782H5674H776 10In this way you shall set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to the original owner or the descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves shall return to their families.H6942H2572H8141H8141H7121H1865H776H3427H3104H7725H376H272H7725H376H4940 11You shall not plant your fields or harvest the grain that grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards.H3104H2572H8141H8141H2232H7114H5599H1219H5139 12The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only what the fields produce of themselves.H3104H6944H398H8393H7704 13In this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to its original owner.H8141H3104H7725H376H272 14So when you sell land to an Israelite or buy land, do not deal unfairly.H4376H4465H5997H7069H5997H3027H3238H376H251 15The price is to be set according to the number of years the land can produce crops before the next Year of Restoration.H4557H8141H310H3104H7069H5997H4557H8141H8393H4376 16If there are many years, the price shall be higher, but if there are only a few years, the price shall be lower, because what is being sold is the number of crops the land can produce.H6310H7230H8141H7235H4736H6310H4591H8141H4591H4736H4557H8393H4376 17Do not cheat an Israelite, but obey the LORD your God.H3238H376H5997H3372H430H3068H430 18Obey all the LORD's laws and commands, so that you may live in safety in the land.H6213H2708H8104H4941H6213H3427H776H983 19The land will produce its crops, and you will have all you want to eat and will live in safety.H776H5414H6529H398H7648H3427H983 20But someone may ask what there will be to eat during the seventh year, when no fields are planted and no crops gathered.H559H398H7637H8141H2232H622H8393 21The LORD will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will produce enough food for two years.H6680H1293H8345H8141H6213H8393H7969H8141 22When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating what you harvested during the sixth year, and you will have enough to eat until the crops you plant that year are harvested.H2232H8066H8141H398H3465H8393H8671H8141H8393H935H398H3465 23Your land must not be sold on a permanent basis, because you do not own it; it belongs to God, and you are like foreigners who are allowed to make use of it.H776H4376H6783H776H1616H8453 24When land is sold, the right of the original owner to buy it back must be recognized.H776H272H5414H1353H776 25If any of you Israelites become poor and are forced to sell your land, your closest relative is to buy it back.H251H4134H4376H272H7138H935H1350H1350H251H4465 26If you have no relative to buy it back, you may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back yourself.H376H1350H3027H1767H5381H4672H1353 27In that case you must pay to the one who bought it a sum that will make up for the years remaining until the next Year of Restoration, when you would in any event recover your land.H2803H8141H4465H7725H5736H376H4376H7725H272 28But if you do not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the one who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.H3027H1767H4672H7725H4465H3027H7069H8141H3104H3104H3318H7725H272 29If you sell a house in a walled city, you have the right to buy it back during the first full year from the date of sale.H376H4376H4186H1004H2346H5892H1353H8552H8141H4465H3117H1353 30But if you do not buy it back within the year, you lose the right of repurchase, and the house becomes the permanent property of the purchasers and their descendants; it will not be returned in the Year of Restoration.H1350H4390H8549H8141H1004H2346H5892H6965H6783H7069H1755H3318H3104 31But houses in unwalled villages are to be treated like fields; the original owner has the right to buy them back, and they are to be returned in the Year of Restoration.H1004H2691H2346H5439H2803H7704H776H1353H3318H3104 32However, Levites have the right to buy back at any time their property in the cities assigned to them.H5892H3881H1004H5892H272H3881H1353H5769 33If a house in one of these cities is sold by a Levite and is not bought back, it must be returned in the Year of Restoration, because the houses which the Levites own in their cities are their permanent property among the people of Israel.H1350H3881H1004H4465H5892H272H3318H3104H1004H5892H3881H272H8432H1121H3478 34But the pasture land around the Levite cities shall never be sold; it is their property forever.H7704H4054H5892H4376H5769H272 35If any Israelites living near you become poor and cannot support themselves, you must provide for them as you would for a hired worker, so that they can continue to live near you.H251H4134H4131H3027H2388H1616H8453H2416 36Do not charge Israelites any interest, but obey God and let them live near you.H3947H5392H8636H3372H430H251H2416 37Do not make them pay interest on the money you lend them, and do not make a profit on the food you sell them.H5414H3701H5392H5414H400H4768 38This is the command of the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt in order to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.H3068H430H3318H776H4714H5414H776H3667H430 39If any Israelites living near you become so poor that they sell themselves to you as a slave, you shall not make them do the work of a slave.H251H4134H4376H5647H5656H5650 40They shall stay with you as hired workers and serve you until the next Year of Restoration.H7916H8453H5647H8141H3104 41At that time they and their children shall leave you and return to their family and to the property of their ancestors.H3318H1121H7725H4940H272H1H7725 42The people of Israel are the LORD's slaves, and he brought them out of Egypt; they must not be sold into slavery.H5650H3318H776H4714H4376H4466H5650 43Do not treat them harshly, but obey your God.H7287H6531H3372H430 44If you need slaves, you may buy them from the nations around you.H5650H519H1471H5439H7069H5650H519 45You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property,H1121H8453H1481H7069H4940H3205H776H272 46and you may leave them as an inheritance to your children, whom they must serve as long as they live. But you must not treat any Israelites harshly.H5157H1121H310H3423H272H5647H5769H251H1121H3478H7287H376H251H6531 47Suppose a foreigner living with you becomes rich, while some Israelites become poor and sell themselves as slaves to that foreigner or to a member of that foreigner's family.H1616H8453H5381H3027H251H4134H4376H1616H8453H6133H1616H4940 48After they are sold, they still have the right to be bought back. A brotherH310H4376H1353H259H251H1350 49or an uncle or a cousin or another close relative may buy them back; or if they themselves earn enough, they may buy their own freedom.H1730H1730H1121H1350H7607H1320H4940H1350H5381H1350H3027 50They must consult the one who bought them, and they must count the years from the time they sold themselves until the next Year of Restoration and must set the price for their release on the basis of the wages paid hired workers.H2803H7069H8141H4376H8141H3104H3701H4465H4557H8141H3117H7916 51They must refund a part of the purchase priceH7227H8141H6310H7725H1353H3701H4736 52according to the number of years left,H7604H4592H8141H8141H3104H2803H6310H8141H7725H1353 53as if they had been hired on an annual basis. Their master must not treat them harshly.H8141H8141H7916H7287H6531H5869 54If they are not set free in any of these ways, they and their children must be set free in the next Year of Restoration.H1350H3318H8141H3104H1121 55Israelites cannot be permanent slaves, because the people of Israel are the LORD's slaves. He brought them out of Egypt; he is the LORD their God.H1121H3478H5650H5650H3318H776H4714H3068H430
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