And He [God (‘Elohiym)] Called
(Leviticus) 25
1
I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke to Drawn (Moses) in Mount Thorny (Sinai),
saying,
2
Speak to the children of God Prevails (Israel), and say to them: When you come
into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to I AM (the
LORD, Yehovah).
3
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your
vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4
But the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for I AM
(the LORD, Yehovah): you shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5
That which grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, neither
gather the grapes of your vine undressed: for it is a year of rest for the
land.
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But the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you; for you, and for your
servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger
that sojourns with you.
7
And for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land, shall all the
increase thereof be food.
8
You shall number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and
the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty and nine years.
9
Then shall you cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of
the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall you make the trumpet sound
throughout all your land.
10
You shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the
land to all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee to you; and you
shall return every man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his
family.
11
The fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you: you shall not sow, neither reap
that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine
undressed.
12
For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat the increase
thereof out of the field.
13
In the year of this Jubilee, you shall return every man to his possession.
14
And if you sell property to your neighbor, or buy property of your neighbor's
hand, you shall not oppress one another:
15
According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy of your
neighbor, and according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell to you:
16
According to the multitude of years, you shall increase the price thereof, and
according to the fewness of years, you shall diminish the price of it: for
according to the number of the years of the fruits, he sells it to you.
17
You shall not, therefore, oppress one another; but you shall fear your God (‘Elohiym):
for I am I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God (‘Elohiym).
18
Wherefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them, and you
shall dwell in the land in safety.
19
The land shall yield her fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein
in safety.
20
If you shall say: What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow,
nor gather in our increase:
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Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring
forth fruit for three years.
22
You shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year;
until her fruits come in you shall eat of the old store.
23
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for you are
strangers and sojourners with me.
24
In all the land of your possession, you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25
If your brother becomes poor and has sold away some of his possession, and if
any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother
sold.
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If the man has no kin to redeem it and is himself be able to redeem it;
27
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus to
the man to whom he sold it; that he may return to his possession.
28
But if he is not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall
remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of Jubilee: and in
the Jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.
29
If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within
a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
30
But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that
is in the walled city shall be established forever to him that bought it
throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the Jubilee.
31
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be
counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out
in the Jubilee.
32
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of
their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
33
If a man purchases of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city
of his possession, shall go out in the year of Jubilee: for the houses of the
cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of God Prevails
(Israel).
34
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold. It is their
perpetual possession.
35
If your brother becomes poor and falls in decay with you; then you shall
relieve him: yea, though he is a stranger or a sojourner; that he may live
with you.
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Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your brother may
live with you.
37
You shall not give him your money with usury, nor lend him your victuals for
increase.
38
I am I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God, who brought you forth out of the land
of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39
If your brother that dwells by you becomes poor and is sold to you; you shall
not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
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But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you, and shall
serve you to the year of Jubilee.
41
Then he shall depart from you, both he and his children with him, and shall
return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.
42
For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they
shall not be sold as bondmen.
43
You shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear your God.
44
Both your bondmen and your bondmaids, which you shall have, shall be of the
heathen that are round about you; of them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them you
shall buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your
land: and they shall be your possession.
46
You shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit
them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your
brethren the children of God Prevails (Israel), ye shall not rule one over
another with rigor.
47
If a sojourner or stranger becomes rich alongside you, and your brother that
dwells by him grow poor, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner by you,
or to the stock of the stranger's family:
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After he is sold, he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
49
Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of
kin to him of his family may redeem him; or if he is able, he may redeem
himself.
50
He shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him to
the year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number
of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with him.
51
If there are many years to go, according to them he shall give again the price
of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
52
But if there remain but few years to the year of Jubilee, then he shall count
with him, and according to his years shall he give him again the price of his
redemption.
53
As a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule
with rigor over him in your sight.
54
If he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of Jubilee,
both he, and his children with him.
55
For the children of God Prevails (Israel), are My servants. They are My servants
whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am I AM (the LORD, Yehovah)
your God.
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