1 T he Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, in mount Sinai, saying,

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 unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, then hath the land kept a sabbath to Jehovah.

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

`Six years thou dost sow thy field, and six years thou dost prune thy vineyard, and hast gathered its increase,

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.

and in the seventh year a sabbath of rest is to the land, a sabbath to Jehovah; thy field thou dost not sow, and thy vineyard thou dost not prune;

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.

the spontaneous growth of thy harvest thou dost not reap, and the grapes of thy separated thing thou dost not gather, a year of rest it is to 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,

`And the sabbath of the land hath been to you for food, to thee, and to thy man-servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to thy settler, who are sojourning with thee;

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

and to thy cattle, and to the beast which in thy land, is all thine increase 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.

`And thou hast numbered to thee seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years have been to thee nine and forty 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.

and thou hast caused a trumpet of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month; in the day of the atonements ye do cause a trumpet to pass over through 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.

and ye have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and ye have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; a jubilee it is to you; and ye have turned back each unto his possession; yea, each unto his family ye do turn back.

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.

`A jubilee it, the fiftieth year, a year it is to you; ye sow not, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;

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 a jubilee it, holy it is to you; out of the field ye eat its increase;

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

in the year of this jubilee ye turn back each unto his possession.

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

`And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress 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.

by the number of years after the jubilee thou dost buy from thy fellow; by the number of the years of increase he doth sell to thee;

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 multitude of the years thou dost multiply its price, and according to the fewness of the years thou dost diminish its price; for a number of increases he is selling to thee;

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

and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I Jehovah 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.

`And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,

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

and the land hath given its fruit, and ye have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.

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?

`And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather 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 have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it hath made the increase for 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.

and ye have sown the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase, ye do eat the old.

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

`And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land Mine, for sojourners and settlers ye with Me;

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

and in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to 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.

`When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

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,

and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient its redemption,

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 he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold, and he hath returned to his possession.

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.

`And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.

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.

`And when a man selleth a dwelling-house a walled city, then hath his right of redemption been until the completion of a year from its selling; days -- is his 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.

and if it is not redeemed until the fulness to him of a perfect year, then hath the house which in a walled city been established to extinction to the buyer of it, to his generations; it goeth not out 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.

and a house of the villages which have no wall round about, on the field of the country is reckoned; redemption is to it, and in the jubilee it goeth out.

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

`As to cities of the Levites -- houses of the cities of their possession -- redemption age-during is to the Levites;

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.

as to him who redeemeth from the Levites, both the sale of a house and the city of his possession have gone out in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel.

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

And a field, a suburb of their cities, is not sold; for a possession age-during it to them.

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.

`And when thy brother is become poor, and his hand hath failed with thee, then thou hast kept hold on him, sojourner and settler, and he hath lived with thee;

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

thou takest no usury from him, or increase; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; and thy brother hath lived with thee;

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

thy money thou givest not to him in usury, and for increase thou givest not thy food;

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 Jehovah your God, who hath brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to become 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),

`And when thy brother becometh poor with thee, and he hath been sold to thee, thou dost not lay on him servile service;

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 an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, --

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 hath gone out from thee, he and his sons with him, and hath turned back unto his family; even unto the possession of his fathers he doth turn back.

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 My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold the sale of a servant;

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

thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy 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.

`And thy man-servant and thy handmaid whom thou hast of the nations who round about you; of them ye buy man-servant and handmaid,

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.

and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;

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).

and ye have taken them for inheritance to your sons after you, to occupy a possession; to the age ye lay service upon them, but upon your brethren, the sons of Israel, one with another, thou dost not rule over him with rigour.

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,

`And when the hand of a sojourner or settler with thee attaineth, and thy brother with him hath become poor, and he hath been sold to a sojourner, a settler with thee, or to the root of the family of a sojourner,

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

after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth 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 a son of his uncle, doth redeem him, or any of the relations of his flesh, of his family, doth redeem him, or -- his own hand hath attained -- then he hath been redeemed.

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.

`And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.

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

`If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption, from the money of his purchase.

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.

`And if few are left of the years till the year of jubilee, then he hath reckoned with him, according to his years he doth give back 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 an hireling, year by year, he is with him, and he doth not rule him with rigour before thine eyes.

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.

`And if he is not redeemed in these, then he hath gone out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons 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 sons of Israel servants; My servants they, whom I have brought out of the land of Egypt; I, Jehovah, your God.