25GOD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai,H3068H1696H4872H2022H5514H559 2"Speak to the People of Israel. Tell them: When you enter the land which I am going to give you, the land will observe a Sabbath to GOD.H1696H1121H3478H559H935H776H5414H776H7673H7676H3068 3Sow your fields, prune your vineyards, and take in your harvests for six years.H8337H8141H2232H7704H8337H8141H2168H3754H622H8393 4But the seventh year the land will take a Sabbath of complete and total rest, a Sabbath to GOD; you will not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.H7637H8141H7676H7677H776H7676H3068H2232H7704H2168H3754 5Don't reap what grows of itself; don't harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land gets a year of complete and total rest.H5599H7105H7114H1219H6025H5139H8141H7677H776 6But you can eat from what the land volunteers during the Sabbath year—you and your men and women servants, your hired hands, and the foreigners who live in the country,H7676H776H402H5650H519H7916H8453H1481 7and, of course, also your livestock and the wild animals in the land can eat from it. Whatever the land volunteers of itself can be eaten.H929H2416H776H8393H398 8"Count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years: Seven Sabbaths of years adds up to forty-nine years.H5608H7651H7676H8141H7651H6471H7651H8141H3117H7651H7676H8141H705H8672H8141 9Then sound loud blasts on the ram's horn on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. Sound the ram's horn all over the land.H7782H8643H5674H6218H7637H2320H3117H3725H7782H5674H776 10Sanctify the fiftieth year; make it a holy year. Proclaim freedom all over the land to everyone who lives in it—a Jubilee for you: Each person will go back to his family's property and reunite with his extended family.H6942H2572H8141H8141H7121H1865H776H3427H3104H7725H376H272H7725H376H4940 11The fiftieth year is your Jubilee year: Don't sow; don't reap what volunteers itself in the fields; don't harvest the untended vinesH3104H2572H8141H8141H2232H7114H5599H1219H5139 12because it's the Jubilee and a holy year for you. You're permitted to eat from whatever volunteers itself in the fields.H3104H6944H398H8393H7704 13"In this year of Jubilee everyone returns home to his family property.H8141H3104H7725H376H272 14"If you sell or buy property from one of your countrymen, don't cheat him.H4376H4465H5997H7069H5997H3027H3238H376H251 15Calculate the purchase price on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. He is obliged to set the sale price on the basis of the number of harvests remaining until the next Jubilee.H4557H8141H310H3104H7069H5997H4557H8141H8393H4376 16The more years left, the more money; you can raise the price. But the fewer years left, the less money; decrease the price. What you are buying and selling in fact is the number of crops you're going to harvest.H6310H7230H8141H7235H4736H6310H4591H8141H4591H4736H4557H8393H4376 17Don't cheat each other. Fear your God. I am GOD, your God.H3238H376H5997H3372H430H3068H430 18"Keep my decrees and observe my laws and you will live secure in the land.H6213H2708H8104H4941H6213H3427H776H983 19The land will yield its fruit; you will have all you can eat and will live safe and secure.H776H5414H6529H398H7648H3427H983 20Do I hear you ask, 'What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we don't plant or harvest?'H559H398H7637H8141H2232H622H8393 21I assure you, I will send such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.H6680H1293H8345H8141H6213H8393H7969H8141 22While you plant in the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and continue until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.H2232H8066H8141H398H3465H8393H8671H8141H8393H935H398H3465 23"The land cannot be sold permanently because the land is mine and you are foreigners—you're my tenants.H776H4376H6783H776H1616H8453 24You must provide for the right of redemption for any of the land that you own.H776H272H5414H1353H776 25"If one of your brothers becomes poor and has to sell any of his land, his nearest relative is to come and buy back what his brother sold.H251H4134H4376H272H7138H935H1350H1350H251H4465 26If a man has no one to redeem it but he later prospers and earns enough for its redemption,H376H1350H3027H1767H5381H4672H1353 27he is to calculate the value since he sold it and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it; he can then go back to his own land.H2803H8141H4465H7725H5736H376H4376H7725H272 28If he doesn't get together enough money to repay him, what he sold remains in the possession of the buyer until the year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it will be returned and he can go back and live on his land.H3027H1767H4672H7725H4465H3027H7069H8141H3104H3104H3318H7725H272 29"If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains the right to buy it back for a full year after the sale. At any time during that year he can redeem it.H376H4376H4186H1004H2346H5892H1353H8552H8141H4465H3117H1353 30But if it is not redeemed before the full year has passed, it becomes the permanent possession of the buyer and his descendants. It is not returned in the Jubilee.H1350H4390H8549H8141H1004H2346H5892H6965H6783H7069H1755H3318H3104 31However, houses in unwalled villages are treated the same as fields. They can be redeemed and have to be returned at the Jubilee.H1004H2691H2346H5439H2803H7704H776H1353H3318H3104 32"As to the Levitical cities, houses in the cities owned by the Levites are always subject to redemption.H5892H3881H1004H5892H272H3881H1353H5769 33Levitical property is always redeemable if it is sold in a town that they hold and reverts to them in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the People of Israel.H1350H3881H1004H4465H5892H272H3318H3104H1004H5892H3881H272H8432H1121H3478 34The pastures belonging to their cities may not be sold; they are their permanent possession.H7704H4054H5892H4376H5769H272 35"If one of your brothers becomes indigent and cannot support himself, help him, the same as you would a foreigner or a guest so that he can continue to live in your neighborhood.H251H4134H4131H3027H2388H1616H8453H2416 36Don't gouge him with interest charges; out of reverence for your God help your brother to continue to live with you in the neighborhood.H3947H5392H8636H3372H430H251H2416 37Don't take advantage of his plight by running up big interest charges on his loans, and don't give him food for profit.H5414H3701H5392H5414H400H4768 38I am your GOD who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.H3068H430H3318H776H4714H5414H776H3667H430 39"If one of your brothers becomes indigent and has to sell himself to you, don't make him work as a slave.H251H4134H4376H5647H5656H5650 40Treat him as a hired hand or a guest among you. He will work for you until the Jubilee,H7916H8453H5647H8141H3104 41after which he and his children are set free to go back to his clan and his ancestral land.H3318H1121H7725H4940H272H1H7725 42Because the People of Israel are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt, they must never be sold as slaves.H5650H3318H776H4714H4376H4466H5650 43Don't tyrannize them; fear your God.H7287H6531H3372H430 44"The male and female slaves which you have are to come from the surrounding nations; you are permitted to buy slaves from them.H5650H519H1471H5439H7069H5650H519 45You may also buy the children of foreign workers who are living among you temporarily and from their clans which are living among you and have been born in your land. They become your property.H1121H8453H1481H7069H4940H3205H776H272 46You may will them to your children as property and make them slaves for life. But you must not tyrannize your brother Israelites.H5157H1121H310H3423H272H5647H5769H251H1121H3478H7287H376H251H6531 47"If a foreigner or temporary resident among you becomes rich and one of your brothers becomes poor and sells himself to the foreigner who lives among you or to a member of the foreigner's clan,H1616H8453H5381H3027H251H4134H4376H1616H8453H6133H1616H4940 48he still has the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his relatives may buy him back.H310H4376H1353H259H251H1350 49An uncle or cousin or any close relative of his extended family may redeem him. Or, if he gets the money together, he can redeem himself.H1730H1730H1121H1350H7607H1320H4940H1350H5381H1350H3027 50What happens then is that he and his owner count out the time from the year he sold himself to the year of Jubilee; the buy-back price is set according to the wages of a hired hand for that number of years.H2803H7069H8141H4376H8141H3104H3701H4465H4557H8141H3117H7916 51If many years remain before the Jubilee, he must pay back a larger share of his purchase price,H7227H8141H6310H7725H1353H3701H4736 52but if only a few years remain until the Jubilee, he is to calculate his redemption price accordingly.H7604H4592H8141H8141H3104H2803H6310H8141H7725H1353 53He is to be treated as a man hired from year to year. You must make sure that his owner does not tyrannize him.H8141H8141H7916H7287H6531H5869 54"If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he goes free in the year of Jubilee, he and his children,H1350H3318H8141H3104H1121 55because the People of Israel are my servants, my servants whom I brought out of Egypt. I am GOD, your God.H1121H3478H5650H5650H3318H776H4714H3068H430
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