Leviticus 25:1 - Prayer Tents

25The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai.H3068H1696H4872H2022H5514H559 2"Tell the Israelites that when you enter the land that I'm about to give you, you are to let the land observe a Sabbath to the Lord.H1696H1121H3478H559H935H776H5414H776H7673H7676H3068 3For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce.H8337H8141H2232H7704H8337H8141H2168H3754H622H8393 4"But the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of rest for the land - a Sabbath for the Lord. You are not to plant your field or prune your vineyard.H7637H8141H7676H7677H776H7676H3068H2232H7704H2168H3754 5You are not to gather what grows from the spilled kernels of your crops. You are not to pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines. Let it be a year of Sabbath for the land.H5599H7105H7114H1219H6025H5139H8141H7677H776 6You may take the Sabbath produce of the land for your food - you, your male and maid servants, your hired laborers, and the resident alien with you.H7676H776H402H5650H519H7916H8453H1481 7The cattle and the wild animals in your land - everything it produces - are for your food.4H929H2416H776H8393H398 8"Count for yourselves seven years of Sabbaths, seven times seven years. This set of seven weeks of years total forty nine years for you.H5608H7651H7676H8141H7651H6471H7651H8141H3117H7651H7676H8141H705H8672H8141 9Sound a horn on the tenth day of the seventh month of this fiftieth year. Likewise on the Day of Atonement sound the horn throughout your land.H7782H8643H5674H6218H7637H2320H3117H3725H7782H5674H776 10"Set aside and consecrate the fiftieth year to declare liberty throughout the land for all of its inhabitants. It is to be a jubilee for you. Every person is to return to his own land that he has inherited. "Likewise, every person is to return to his clan.H6942H2572H8141H8141H7121H1865H776H3427H3104H7725H376H272H7725H376H4940 11The fiftieth year is to be a year of jubilee for you. You are not to sow or harvest the spilled kernels that grow of itself or pick grapes from the untrimmed vinesH3104H2572H8141H8141H2232H7114H5599H1219H5139 12because it's jubilee. It's sacred for you. But you may eat its produce from the field.H3104H6944H398H8393H7704 13"During this year of jubilee, each person is to return to his own land that he has inherited.H8141H3104H7725H376H272 14So if you had sold property to a neighbor or had acquired land from your neighbor, you are not to cheat one another.H4376H4465H5997H7069H5997H3027H3238H376H251 15According to the number of years after the jubilee, you may buy from your neighbor. And according to the number of years with crops, he may sell to you.H4557H8141H310H3104H7069H5997H4557H8141H8393H4376 16If the number of years are more, increase the selling price. If the years be few, decrease its selling price, because he's selling to you according to the volume of produce.H6310H7230H8141H7235H4736H6310H4591H8141H4591H4736H4557H8393H4376 17No one is to cheat his neighbor. Instead, you are to fear your God, because I'm the Lord your God.H3238H376H5997H3372H430H3068H430 18"Observe my statutes and keep my ordinances. Do them so that you may live securely in the land.H6213H2708H8104H4941H6213H3427H776H983 19Then the land will yield its fruit and you'll eat to your satisfaction and live securely.H776H5414H6529H398H7648H3427H983 20"Now if you ask, 'What will we eat during the seventh year - After all, we may not plant or even gather our produce!'H559H398H7637H8141H2232H622H8393 21I'll command my blessing on you during the sixth year so that it will yield produce for three years!H6680H1293H8345H8141H6213H8393H7969H8141 22That way, you are to sow in the eighth year, eating the produce from the old harvest. Until the ninth year when its produce comes in, you'll eat from the old harvest."H2232H8066H8141H398H3465H8393H8671H8141H8393H935H398H3465 23"The land is not to be sold with any finality, because the land belongs to me. You're sojourners and travelers with me.H776H4376H6783H776H1616H8453 24So throughout all of your land inheritance, grant the right of redemption for the land.H776H272H5414H1353H776 25"If your brother is poor so that he had to a sell portion of his inheritance, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother has sold.H251H4134H4376H272H7138H935H1350H1350H251H4465 26If a person doesn't have a kinsman redeemer but has become rich and found sufficient means for his redemption,H376H1350H3027H1767H5381H4672H1353 27then let him account for the years for which it was sold, return the excess to the person to whom it was sold, and then return to his property.H2803H8141H4465H7725H5736H376H4376H7725H272 28If he's not able to redeem it back for himself, then what he sold is to remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee, it is to be returned so he may return to his property.H3027H1767H4672H7725H4465H3027H7069H8141H3104H3104H3318H7725H272 29"If a person sells a residential house in a walled city, then he is to redeem it within the year in which it was sold. He may have right to its redemption for a full year.H376H4376H4186H1004H2346H5892H1353H8552H8141H4465H3117H1353 30But if it's not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house next to which is a wall is to belong to the one who bought it, in perpetuity throughout his generations. It is not to be returned in the jubilee.H1350H4390H8549H8141H1004H2346H5892H6965H6783H7069H1755H3318H3104 31"However, the houses in the villages that don't have walls around them are to be categorized along with the fields of the land. It may be redeemed, so it is to be returned in the jubilee.H1004H2691H2346H5439H2803H7704H776H1353H3318H3104 32"Nevertheless, the cities that belong to the Levites - that is, the houses in the cities that belong to them - are to belong to the Levites perpetually as part of their right of redemption.H5892H3881H1004H5892H272H3881H1353H5769 33If someone from the Levites redeems the houses in the cities that they own, they are to be returned in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are to remain their property among the Israelites.H1350H3881H1004H4465H5892H272H3318H3104H1004H5892H3881H272H8432H1121H3478 34Also, the open land of their cities is not to be sold, because it is to remain their perpetual inheritance."H7704H4054H5892H4376H5769H272 35If your relative becomes poor so that he is indebted to you, then you are to support him. You are to let him live with you just like the resident alien and the traveler.H251H4134H4131H3027H2388H1616H8453H2416 36You are not to take interest or profit from him. Instead, you are to fear your God and let your relative live with you.H3947H5392H8636H3372H430H251H2416 37"You are not to loan him money with interest or sell him your food at a profit.H5414H3701H5392H5414H400H4768 38I'm the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.H3068H430H3318H776H4714H5414H776H3667H430 39"If your brother with you becomes poor, so that he sells himself to you, you are not to make him serve like a bond slave.H251H4134H4376H5647H5656H5650 40Instead, he is to serve with you like a hired servant or traveler who lives with you until the year of jubilee.H7916H8453H5647H8141H3104 41Then he and his children with him may leave to return to his family and his ancestor's inheritance.H3318H1121H7725H4940H272H1H7725 42Since they're my servants whom I've brought out from the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.H5650H3318H776H4714H4376H4466H5650 43You are not to rule over them with harshness. You are to fear your God." 39H7287H6531H3372H430 44"As for your male and maid slaves who will be with you, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations.H5650H519H1471H5439H7069H5650H519 45You may also buy from resident aliens who live among you and their families who are with you, whom they fathered in your land. They may become your property.H1121H8453H1481H7069H4940H3205H776H272 46"You may give them as inherited property to your children after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israelite with harshness.H5157H1121H310H3423H272H5647H5769H251H1121H3478H7287H376H251H6531 47"If a resident alien or traveler becomes rich, but your relative who lives next to him is so poor that he sells himself to that resident alien or traveler among you or to a member of the resident alien's family,H1616H8453H5381H3027H251H4134H4376H1616H8453H6133H1616H4940 48he has the right to be redeemed after he sells himself. One of his brothers may redeem him.H310H4376H1353H259H251H1350 49His uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him or any blood relative from his clan may redeem him. If he becomes rich, then he may redeem himself.H1730H1730H1121H1350H7607H1320H4940H1350H5381H1350H3027 50"He is to bring an accounting to the one who bought him, starting from the year he had sold himself until the year of jubilee. The price of his sale is to correspond to the number of years comparable to the time a hired servant stays with him.H2803H7069H8141H4376H8141H3104H3701H4465H4557H8141H3117H7916 51"If there are still many years left, he is to refund the cost of his redemption.H7227H8141H6310H7725H1353H3701H4736 52But if only a few years are left until the year of jubilee, he is to bring an accounting of the years that he is to refund for his redemption.H7604H4592H8141H8141H3104H2803H6310H8141H7725H1353 53Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity.H8141H8141H7916H7287H6531H5869 54"If he isn't redeemed by these, then he is to be set free in the year of jubilee - he and his children with himH1350H3318H8141H3104H1121 55because the Israelites are my servants. They're my servants, since I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I'm the Lord your God."H1121H3478H5650H5650H3318H776H4714H3068H430