Leviticus Chapter 25

Leviticus Chapter 25
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in
mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and
say unto them, When ye shall come into
the land which I give you, the land shall
keep Sabbath unto the Lord. 3 Six years
thou shalt sow thy field, and six years
thou shalt cut thy vineyard, and gather
the fruit thereof.
4 But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath
of rest unto the land: it shall be the
Lord’s Sabbath: thou shalt neither sow
thy field, nor cut thy vineyard. 5 That
which groweth of its own accord of thy
harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither
gather the grapes that thou hast left
unlabored: for it shall be a year of rest
unto the land.
6 And the rest of the land shall be meat
for you, even for thee, and for thy
servant, and for thy maid, and for thy
hired servant, and for the stranger that
sojourneth with thee:
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beasts
that are in thy land shall all the increase
thereof be meat.
8 Also thou shalt number seven Sabbaths
of years unto thee, even seven times
seven year: and the space of the seven
Sabbaths of years will be unto thee nine
and forty year.
9 Then thou shalt cause to blow the
trumpet of the jubilee in the tenth day of
the seventh month: even in the day of the
reconciliation shall ye make the trumpet
blow, throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow that year, even
the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in
the land to all the inhabitants thereof: it
shall be the jubilee unto you, and ye
shall return every man unto his
possession, and every man shall return
unto his family.
11 This fiftieth year shall be a year of
jubilee unto you: ye shall not sow,
neither reap that which groweth of itself,
neither gather the grapes thereof that are
left unlabored.
12 For it is the jubilee, it shall be holy
unto you: ye shall eat of the increase
thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubilee, ye shall
return every man unto his possession. 14
And when thou sellest ought to thy
neighbor, or buyest at thy neighbor’s
hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
15 But according to the number of years
after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy
neighbor: also according to the number
of the years of the revenues, he shall sell
unto thee.
16 According to the multitude of years,
thou shalt increase the price thereof, and
according to the fewness of years, thou
shalt abate the price of it: for the number
of fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Oppress not ye therefore any man his
neighbor, but thou shalt fear thy God: for
I am the Lord your God.
18 Wherefore ye shall obey mine
ordinances, and keep my laws, and do
them, and ye shall dwell in the land in
safety.
19 And the land shall give her fruit, and
ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein
in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat
the seventh year, for we shall not sow,
nor gather in our increase?
21 I will send my blessing upon you in
the sixth year, and it shall bring forth
fruit for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and
eat of the old fruit until the ninth year:
until the fruit thereof come, ye shall eat
the old.
23 Also the land shall not be sold to be
cut off from the family: for the land is
mine, and ye be but strangers and
sojourners with me.
24 Therefore in all the land of your
possession ye shall grant a redemption
for the land.
25 If thy brother be impoverished, and
sell his possession, then his redeemer
shall come, even his near kinsman, and
buy out that which his brother sold. 26
And if he have no redeemer, but hath
gotten and found to buy it out, 27 Then
shall he count the years of his sale, and
restore the over plus to the man, to
whom he sold it: so shall he return to his
possession.
28 But if he cannot get sufficient to
restore to him, then that which is sold,
shall remain in the hand of him that hath
bought it, until the year of the jubilee:
and in the jubilee it shall come out, and
he shall return unto his possession. 29
Likewise if a man sell a dwelling house
in a walled city, he may buy it out again
within a whole year after it is sold:
within a year may he buy it out. 30 But if
it be not bought out within the space of a
full year, then the house that is in the
walled city, shall be stablished, as cut
off from the family, to him that bought it,
throughout his generations: it shall not go
out in the jubilee. 31 But the houses of
villages, which have no walls round
about them, shall be esteemed as the
field of the country: they may be bought
out again, and shall go out in the jubilee.
32 Notwithstanding, the cities of the
Levites, and the houses of the cities of
their possession, may the Levites redeem
at all seasons.
33 And if a man purchase of the Levites,
the house that was sold, and the city of
their possession shall go out in the
jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the
Levites are their possession among the
children of Israel.
34 But the field of the suburbs of their
cities shall not be sold: for it is their
perpetual possession.
35 Moreover, if thy brother be
impoverished, and fallen in decay with
thee, thou shalt relieve him, and as a
stranger and sojourner, so shall he live
with thee.
36 Thou shalt take no usury of him, nor
vantage, but thou shalt fear thy God, that
thy brother may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money to
usury, nor lend him thy victuals for
increase.
38 I am the Lord your God, which have
brought you out of the land of Egypt, to
give you the land of Canaan, and to be
your God.
39 If thy brother also that dwelleth by
thee, be impoverished, and be sold unto
thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve
as a bond servant,
40 But as an hired servant, and as a
sojourner he shall be with thee: he shall
serve thee unto the year of the jubilee.
41 Then shall he depart from thee, both
he, and his children with him, and shall
return unto his family, and unto the
possession of his fathers shall he return:
42 For they are my servants, whom I
brought out of the land of Egypt: they
shall not be sold as bondmen are sold.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him cruelly,
but shalt fear thy God. 44 Thy
bondservant also, and thy bondmaid,
which thou shalt have, shall be of the
heathen that are round about you: of them
shall ye buy servants and maids.
45 And moreover of the children of the
strangers, that are sojourners among you,
of them shall ye buy, and of their
families that are with you, which they
begat in your land: these shall be your
possession.
46 So ye shall take them as inheritance
for your children after you, to possess
them by inheritance, ye shall use their
labors forever: but over your brethren
the children of Israel ye shall not rule
one over another with cruelty. 47 If a
sojourner or a stranger dwelling by thee
get riches, and thy brother by him be
impoverished, and sell himself unto the
stranger or
sojourner dwelling by thee, or to the
stock of the stranger’s family, 48 After
that he is sold, he may be bought out: one
of his brethren may buy him out,
49 Or his uncle, or his uncle’s son may
buy him out, or any of the kindred of his
flesh among his family, may redeem him:
either if he can get so much, he may buy
himself out.
50 Then he shall reckon with his buyer
from the year that he was sold to him,
unto the year of jubilee: and the money
of his sale shall be according to the
number of years: according to the time of
an hired servant shall he be with him.
51 If there be many years behind,
according to them he shall give again for
his deliverance, of the money that he
was bought for.
52 If there remain but few years unto the
year of jubilee, then he shall count with
him, and according to his years give
again for his redemption. 53 He shall be
with him year by year as an hired
servant: he shall not rule cruelly over
him in thy sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed thus, he
shall go out in the year of jubilee, he,
and his children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israel are
servants: they are my servants, whom I
have brought out of the land of Egypt: I
am the Lord your God.