1 T he Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,

2 S ay to the Israelites, When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the Lord.

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

3 F or six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits.

You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;

4 B ut in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

5 W hat grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap and the grapes on your uncultivated vine you shall not gather, for it is a year of rest to the land.

What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

6 A nd the sabbath rest of the land shall furnish food for you, for your male and female slaves, your hired servant, and the temporary resident who lives with you,

The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

7 F or your domestic animals also and for the beasts in your land; all its yield shall be for food.

For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

8 A nd you shall number seven sabbaths or weeks of years for you, seven times seven years, so the total time of the seven weeks of years shall be forty-nine years.

“‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

9 T hen you shall sound abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement blow the trumpet in all your land.

Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

10 A nd you shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his ancestral possession, and each of you shall return to his family.

You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

11 T hat fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall not sow, or reap and store what grows of itself, or gather the grapes of the uncultivated vines.

That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.

12 F or it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat the increase of it out of the field.

For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

13 I n this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his ancestral property.

“‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

14 A nd if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

“‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

15 A ccording to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor. And he shall sell to you according to the number of years the crops.

According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

16 I f the years are many, you may increase the price, and if the years remaining are few, you shall diminish the price, for the number of the crops is what he is selling to you.

According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

17 Y ou shall not oppress and wrong one another, but you shall fear your God. For I am the Lord your God.

You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

18 T herefore you shall do and give effect to My statutes and keep My ordinances and perform them, and you will dwell in the land in safety.

“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

19 T he land shall yield its fruit; you shall eat your fill and dwell there in safety.

The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

20 A nd if you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year if we are not to sow or gather in our increase?

If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase”;

21 T hen I will command My blessings on you in the sixth year, so that it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.

22 A nd you shall sow in the eighth year, but eat of the old store of produce; until the crops of the ninth year come in you shall eat of the old supply.

You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

23 T he land shall not be sold into perpetual ownership, for the land is Mine; you are strangers and temporary residents with Me.

“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

24 A nd in all the country you possess you shall grant a redemption for the land.

In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

25 I f your brother has become poor and has sold some of his property, if any of his kin comes to redeem it, he shall redeem what his brother has sold.

“‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

26 A nd if the man has no one to redeem his property, and he himself has become more prosperous and has enough to redeem it,

If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;

27 T hen let him count the years since he sold it and restore the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his ancestral possession.

then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

28 B ut if he is unable to redeem it, it shall remain in the buyer’s possession until the Year of Jubilee, when it shall be set free and he may return to it.

But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

29 I f a man sells a dwelling house in a fortified city, he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year he may have the right of redemption.

“‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

30 A nd if it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the fortified city shall be made sure, permanently and without limitations, for him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not go free in the Year of Jubilee.

If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.

31 B ut the houses of the unwalled villages shall be counted with the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall go free in the Year of Jubilee.

But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

32 N evertheless, the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

“‘Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

33 B ut if a house is not redeemed by a Levite, the sold house in the city they possess shall go free in the Year of Jubilee, for the houses in the Levite cities are their ancestral possession among the Israelites.

The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

34 B ut the field of unenclosed or pasture lands of their cities may not be sold; it is their perpetual possession.

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

35 A nd if your brother has become poor and his hand wavers, then you shall uphold (strengthen, relieve) him, a stranger or a temporary resident with you, so that he may live with you.

“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.

36 C harge him no interest or increase, but fear your God, so your brother may live along with you.

Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live among you.

37 Y ou shall not give him your money at interest nor lend him food at a profit.

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

38 I am the Lord your God, Who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

39 A nd if your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a bondman (a slave not eligible for redemption),

“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave.

40 B ut as a hired servant and as a temporary resident he shall be with you; he shall serve you till the Year of Jubilee,

As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:

41 A nd then he shall depart from you, he and his children with him, and shall go back to his own family and return to the possession of his fathers.

then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.

42 F or the Israelites are My servants; I brought them out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bondmen.

For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

43 Y ou shall not rule over him with harshness (severity, oppression), but you shall fear your God.

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

44 A s for your bondmen and your bondmaids whom you may have, they shall be from the nations round about you, of whom you may buy bondmen and bondmaids.

“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.

45 M oreover, of the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, of them you may buy and of their families that are with you which they have begotten in your land, and they shall be your possession.

Moreover of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.

46 A nd you shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall you take your bondmen always, but over your brethren the Israelites you shall not rule one over another with harshness (severity, oppression).

You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever; but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

47 A nd if a sojourner or stranger with you becomes rich and your brother becomes poor beside him and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s family,

“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;

48 A fter he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brethren may redeem him:

after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;

49 E ither his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or a near kinsman may redeem him; or if he has enough and is able, he may redeem himself.

or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.

50 A nd shall reckon with the purchaser of the servant from the year when he sold himself to the purchaser to the Year of Jubilee, and the price of his release shall be adjusted according to the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be counted as that of a hired servant.

He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.

51 I f there remain many years, in proportion to them he must refund for his release for his acquisition.

If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

52 A nd if little time remains until the Year of Jubilee, he shall count it over with him and he shall refund the proportionate amount for his release.

If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.

53 A nd as a servant hired year by year shall he deal with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness (severity, oppression) in your sight.

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

54 A nd if he is not redeemed during these years and by these means, then he shall go free in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.

55 F or to Me the Israelites are servants, My servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.