1 و َقالَ اللهُ لِمُوسَى عَلَى جَبَلِ سِيناءَ:

The Lord then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying,

2 « قُلْ لِبَنِي إسْرائِيلَ: حِينَ تَدخُلُونَ الأرْضَ الَّتِي سَأُعطِيها لَكُمْ، أرِيحُوا الأرْضَ منَ الزِّراعَةِ فِي كُلِّ سابِعِ سَنَةٍ لإكرامِ اللهِ.

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the Lord.

3 ل ِسِتِّ سَنَواتٍ يُمكِنُكَ أنْ تَزرَعَ حَقلَكَ وَتُقَلِّمَ كَرمَكَ وَتَجمَعَ الغِلالَ.

Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop,

4 أ مّا السَّنَةُ السّابِعَةُ فَتَكُونُ راحَةً تامَّةً لِلأرْضِ، سَبتاً لإكرامِ اللهِ. لا تَزرَعْ فِيها حَقلَكَ وَلا تُقَلِّمْ كَرْمَكَ.

but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

5 و َلا تَحصُدِ المَحاصِيلَ الَّتِي تَنمُو مِنْ ذاتِها، وَلا تَجمَعْ عِنَبَ الكُرُومِ غَيرِ المُقَلَّمَةِ. إنَّها سَنَةُ راحَةٍ تامَّةٍ لِلأرْضِ.

Your harvest’s aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year.

6 « أمَّا ما تُخرِجُهُ الأرْضُ مِنْ ذاتِها فِي سَنَةِ راحَتِها سَيَكُونُ لَكُمْ طَعاماً لَكَ وَلِعَبدِكَ وَلِأمَتِكَ وَلِأجِيرِكَ وَلِلغَرِيبِ السّاكِنِ مَعَكُمْ،

All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you.

7 و َلِماشِيَتِكَ وَلِلحَيواناتِ البَرِّيَّةِ الَّتِي فِي أرْضِكَ. كُلُّ ما تُنتِجُهُ الأرْضُ سَيَكُونُ لَكُمْ طَعاماً. سَنَةُ تَحرِيرِ العَبِيدِ: اليُوبِيل

Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

8 « احسِبْ سَبعَ سِنِينَ سَبعَ مَرّاتٍ، فَيَكُونُ مَجمُوعُها تِسعاً وَأربَعِينَ سَنَةً.

‘You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.

9 ث ُمَّ تَنفُخُونَ بِالبُوقِ فِي اليَومِ العاشِرِ مِنَ الشَّهرِ السّابِعِ، أي فِي يَومِ الكَفّارَةِ، فِي كُلِّ الأرْضِ.

You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.

10 ت َعْتَبِرُونَ السَّنَةَ الخَمسِينَ مُقَدَّسَةً وَمُمَيَّزَةً. فَتُعلِنُونَ فِيها العِتْقَ لِكُلِّ مَنْ يَعِيشُ فِي الأرْضِ. ادعُو هَذِهِ السَّنَةَ سَنَةَ اليُوبِيلِ. كُلُّ واحِدٍ فِيكُمْ سَيَعُودُ إلَى مُلكِهِ وَعَشِيرَتِهِ.

You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

11 س َتَكُونُ السَّنَةُ الخَمسُونَ يُوبِيلاً لَكُمْ. لا تَزرَعُوا فِيها وَلا تَحصُدُوا ما يَنبُتُ وَحْدَهُ، وَلا تَقطِفُوا العِنَبَ مِنَ الكُرُومِ غَيرِ المُقَلَّمَةِ.

You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.

12 ل ِأنَّ هَذِهِ سَنَةُ اليُوبِيلِ، وَهِيَ مُقَدَّسَةً لَكُمْ. يُمكِنُكُمْ أنْ تَأكُلُوا ما يَتَساقَطُ مِنَ الثَّمَرِ وَحدَهُ.

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

13 ف ِي سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ سَيَعُودُ كُلُّ واحِدٍ مِنكُمْ إلَى مُلكِهِ.

‘ On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.

14 « حِينَ تَبِيعُ مُلْكَكَ لِجارِكَ، أوْ حِينَ تَشتَرِي مِنْ جارِكَ، لا يَغِشَّ بَعضُكُمْ بَعضاً.

If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.

15 ا شْتَرِ مِنْ جارِكَ بِحَسَبِ عَدَدِ السِّنِينِ مِنْ سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ السّابِقَةِ. يَنبَغِي أنْ يَبِيعَكَ بِحَسَبِ عَدَدِ سِنِيِّ المَحاصِيلِ الباقِيَةِ حَتَّى اليُوبِيلِ التّالِي.

Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops.

16 ك ُلَّما كانَتِ السَّنَواتُ الباقِيَةُ أكثَرَ يَرتَفِعُ سِعرُ الأرْضِ، وَكُلَّما قَلَّ عَدَدُ السَّنَواتِ يَنخَفِضُ سِعرُ الأرْضِ، لِأنَّهُ يَبِيعُ عَدَدَ المَحاصِيلِ لَكَ.

In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you.

17 ل ا يَغِشَّ بَعضُكُمْ بَعضاً، بَلِ اخشُوا اللهَ، لِأنِّي أنا إلَهُكُمْ.

So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

18 « أطِيعُوا شَرائِعِي، وَاحْفَظُوا أحكامِي وَاعْمَلُوا بِها كَي تَعِيشُوا فِي الأرْضِ بِأمانٍ.

‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

19 ف َتُعْطِي الأرْضُ غَلَّتَها، وَيَكُونُ لَدَيكُمْ طَعامٌ كَثِيرٌ، وَتَسكُنُونَ فِي أمانٍ.

Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

20 « وَإنْ قُلْتُمْ: ‹ماذا سَنَأكُلُ فِي السَّنَةِ السّابِعَةِ إنْ لَمْ نَزرَعْ وَلَمْ نَجمَعْ غَلّاتِ الأرْضِ؟›

But if you say, “ What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?”

21 ف َإنِّي سَآمُرُ بِأنْ تَأتِيَ بَرَكَتِي عَلَيكُمْ فِي السَّنَةِ السّادِسَةِ، فَتُنتِجُ الأرْضُ غَلّاتٍ تَكفِي لِثَلاثِ سِنِينَ.

then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.

22 ف َتَأكُلُونَ مِنْ هَذِهِ الغَلّاتِ بَينَما تَزرَعُونَ فِي السَّنَةِ الثّامِنَةِ. فَتأكُلُونَ مِنَ الغَلَّةِ القَدِيمَةِ حَتَّى حَصادِ السَّنَةِ التّاسِعَةِ. شَرائِعُ خاصَّةٌ بِالمُلكِيَّة

When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in. The Law of Redemption

23 « يُمْنَعُ أنْ تُباعَ الأرْضُ بِشَكلٍ دائِمٍ، لِأنَّ الأرْضَ لِي، وَأنتُمْ غُرَباءُ وَوُكَلاءُ يَسكُنُونَ أرْضِي.

‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

24 ف ِي كُلِّ أرْضِكُمُ الَّتِي تَمتَلِكُونَها، تَسمَحُونَ لِمالِكِ الأرْضِ الأصلِيِّ أنْ يَرُدَّها بِدَفعِ ثَمَنِها.

Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

25 إ ذا افتَقَرَ قَرِيبُكَ وَباعَ جُزءاً مِنْ أرْضِهِ، فَعَلَى قَرِيبِهِ أنْ يَأتِيَ وَيَستَرِدَّ الأرْضَ الَّتِي باعَها قَرِيبُهُ.

‘ If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

26 ف َإنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ قَرِيبٌ لِيَشتَرِيَها، لَكِنَّهُ استَطاعَ الحُصُولَ عَلَى ما يَكفِي مِنَ المالِ لِاستِعادَةِ أرْضِهِ،

Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

27 ف َحِينَئِذٍ، يَحسِبُ السَّنَواتِ مُنذُ باعَها، وَيَدفَعُ لِلمُشتَرِي مُقابِلَ ما تَبَقَّى مِنَ السَّنَواتِ، وَيَعُودُ إلَى أرْضِهِ.

then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.

28 ل َكِنْ إنْ لَمْ يَكَنْ قادِراً عَلَى شِرائِها ثانِيَةً، فَإنَّها تَبقَى مُلكاً لِلَّذِي اشتَراها إلَى سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ. وَفِي سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ، تُعتَقُ الأرْضُ، وَتَعُودُ إلَى صاحِبِها الأصلِيِّ.

But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.

29 « إنْ باعَ رَجُلٌ بَيتاً فِي مَدِينَةٍ مُحاطَةٍ بِأسوارٍ، فَيُمكِنُ أنْ يَشتَرِيَهُ ثانِيَةً خِلالَ سَنَةٍ مِنْ بَيعِهِ. فَحَقُّهُ بِاسْتِعادَتِهِ مَحصُورٌ فِي سَنَةٍ واحِدَةٍ.

‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

30 ف َإنْ لَمْ يَشتَرِ البَيتَ قَبلَ اكتِمالِ السَّنَةِ، فَإنَّ البَيتَ فِي المَدِينَةِ المُحاطَةِ بِأسوارٍ يَصِيرُ مُلكاً دائِماً لِلَّذِي اشتَراهُ وَلِنَسلِهِ مِنْ بَعدِهِ، وَلَنْ يَتِمَّ تَحْرِيرُهُ فِي سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ.

But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.

31 أ مّا البُيُوتُ الَّتِيُ فِي القُرَى الَّتِي بِلا أسوارٍ فَإنَّها تُعامَلُ كَمُعامَلَةِ الأرْضِ، إذْ يُمكِنُ لِصاحِبِها أنْ يَشتَرِيَها ثانِيَةً، وَيَتِمُّ تَحْرِيرُها فِي سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ.

The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall shall be considered as open fields; they have redemption rights and revert in the jubilee.

32 « أمّا بُيُوتُ اللّاوِيِّينَ الَّتِي فِي مُدُنِ اللّاوِيِّينَ المُحاطَةِ بِأسْوارٍ فَيُمكِنُ شِراؤُها ثانِيَةً فِي أيِّ وَقتٍ.

As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.

33 و َإنْ لَمْ يَشْتَرِ اللّاوِي بَيتَهُ ثانِيَةً، فَإنَّ ذَلِكَ البَيتَ يَعُودُ إلَى مالِكِهِ فِي سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ، لِأنَّ بُيُوتَ الَّلاوِيِّينَ فِي المُدُنِ مُلكٌ دائِمٌ لَهُمْ وَسَطَ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ.

What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

34 و َأمّا الأرْضُ الَّتِي حَولَ مُدُنِهِمْ فَلا يَجُوزُ بَيعُها لِأنَّها مُلْكٌ أبَدِيُّ لِجَمِيعِ اللّاوِيِّينَ. شَرائِعُ خاصَّةٌ بِالعِيد

But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession. Of Poor Countrymen

35 « إنِ افتَقَرَ واحِدٌ مِنْ إخْوَتِكَ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ، وَلَمْ يَستَطِعْ إعالَةَ نَفسِهِ، فَساعِدْهُ، حَتَّى وَإنْ كانَ غَرِيباً مُقِيماً فِي أرْضِكَ أوْ نَزيلاً.

‘ Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

36 ا خشَ إلَهَكَ وَلا تَأخُذْ مِنْ ذَلِكَ الشَّخصِ رِباً، لِكَي يَتَمَكَّنَ مِنَ العَيشِ بَينَكُمْ.

Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

37 ل ا تُقرِضْهُ مالَكَ بِفائِدَةٍ، وَلا تُعطِهِ طَعامَكَ مُقابِلَ رِبحٍ.

You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

38 أ نا إلَهُكُمْ الَّذِي أخرَجَكُمْ مِنْ أرْضِ مِصرَ لِأُعطِيَكُمْ أرْضَ كَنعانَ، وَلِأكُونَ إلَهَكُمْ.

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

39 « إنِ افتَقَرَ أحَدٌ مِنْ شَعبِكَ وَباعَ نَفْسَهُ لَكَ، فَلا تَسْتَعْبِدْهُ.

‘ If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

40 ب َلْ يَعْمَلُ لَدَيكَ كَأجِيرٍ أوْ وَكِيلٍ، وَيَخدِمُكَ إلَى سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ.

He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

41 ث ُمَّ يَترُكُكَ هُوَ وَأولادُهُ وَيَعُودُونَ إلَى عَشِيرَتِهِمْ وَأرْضِ آبائِهِمْ،

He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.

42 ل ِأنَّهُمْ عَبِيدِي الَّذِينَ أخرَجتُهُمْ مِنْ أرْضِ مِصرَ، فَلا يُباعُونَ كَعَبِيدٍ.

For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.

43 ل ا تَتَسَلَّطْ عَلَيهِ بِقَسوَةٍ، بَلِ اخشَ إلَهَكَ.

You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.

44 « يَنبَغِي أنْ يَكُونَ عَبِيدُكَ وَجَوارِيكَ مِنَ الأُمَمِ الَّتِي حَولَكَ، فَتَشتَرِي العَبِيدَ وَالجَوارِيَ مِنهُمْ.

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.

45 و َيُمكِنُكَ أنْ تَشتَرِيَ عَبِيداً مِنْ أبناءِ الغُرَباءِ السّاكِنِينَ مَعَكُمْ، أوْ مِنْ عَشائِرِهِمِ السّاكِنَةِ مَعَكُمُ الَّذِينَ وُلِدُوا فِي أرْضِكَ. هَؤُلاءِ يَكُونُونَ مُلكاً لَكَ.

Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.

46 ي ُمْكِنُكُمْ أنْ تُورِّثُوهُ لأولادِكُمْ كَمُلكٍ دائِمٍ. يُمكِنُكُمْ أنْ تَستَعبِدُوا هَؤُلاءِ، وَأمّا الَّذِينَ مِنْ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ فَلا تَتَسَلَّطُوا عَلَيهِمْ بِقَسوَةٍ.

You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another. Of Redeeming a Poor Man

47 « إنِ اغتَنَى غَرِيبٌ أوْ زائِرٌ بَينَكُمْ، وَافتَقَرَ واحِدٌ مِنْ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ فَباعَ نَفسَهُ لِلغَرِيبِ أوِ الزّائِرِ، أوْ لِشَخصٍ مِنْ عَشِيرَةِ الغَرِيبِ،

‘Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger’s family,

48 ف َإنَّهُ بَعدَ بَيعِهِ يَنبَغِي شِراؤُهُ ثانِيَةً. يَفتَدِيهِ أخُوهُ

then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

49 أ وْ عَمُّهُ أوِ ابْنُ عَمِّهِ أوْ قَرِيبٌ آخَرُ مِنْ عائِلَتِهِ. وَإنِ اغتَنَى هُوَ نَفسُهُ، فَيُمكِنُهُ أنْ يَفتَدِي نَفسَهُ.

or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

50 « فَيَحسِبُ العَبدُ وَمُشتَرِيهِ عَدَدَ السَّنَواتِ مِنْ سَنَةِ بَيعِهِ لِنَفسِهِ إلَى سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ، وَيُحَدَّدُ سِعْرُهُ بِحَسَبِ عَدَدِ السَّنَواتِ. وَتَكُونُ فَترَةُ عُبُودِيَّتِهِ كَفَترَةِ عَمَلِ أجِيرٍ لَدَيهِ.

He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.

51 ف َإنْ بَقِيَتْ سَنَواتٌ كَثِيرَةٌ إلَى سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ، يَدفَعُ ثَمَنَ تَحْرِيرِ نَفسِهِ حَسَبَ عَدَدِها.

If there are still many years, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

52 و َإنْ بَقِيَتْ سَنَواتٌ قَلِيلَةٌ إلَى سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ، يَدفَعُ ثَمَنَ تَحْرِيرِ نَفسِهِ حَسَبَ عَدَدِها.

and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.

53 و َيَعِيشُ الإسْرائِيلِيُّ عِندَ الغَرِيبِ كَأجِيرٍ مِنْ سَنَةٍ لِأُخرَى، فَلا يَتَسَلَّطْ عَلَيهِ بِقَسوَةٍ أمامَكُمْ.

Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight.

54 « وَإنْ لَمْ يَتِمَّ شِراؤُهُ ثانِيَةً بِأيَّةِ طَريقَةٍ، فَإنَّهُ سَيُعتَقُ هُوَ وَأولادُهُ فِي سَنَةِ اليُوبِيلِ.

Even if he is not redeemed by these means, he shall still go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

55 ل ِأنَّ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ خُدّامِي أنا. إنَّهُمْ خُدّامِي الَّذِينَ أخرَجتُهُمْ مِنْ أرْضِ مِصرَ. أنا إلَهُكُمْ.

For the sons of Israel are My servants; they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.