1 T he Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai,

And Jehovah spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

2 “ Say to the people of Israel, ‘When you come to the land I will give you, then the land will have a Year of Rest to the Lord.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Jehovah.

3 S ix years you will plant seeds in your field. Six years you will take care of your vines and gather their fruit.

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;

4 B ut the seventh year will be a Year of Rest for the land, a Year of Rest to the Lord. You will not plant seeds in your field or take care of your vines.

but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

5 Y ou will not gather what grows of itself in your field. And do not gather the fruit of the vines that have not been cared for. The land will have a Year of Rest.

That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather: it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

6 D uring the Year of Rest the land will give food for you, for your men and women servants, the man you pay to work for you, and the stranger who lives with you.

And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee.

7 E ven your cattle and the animals in your land will have food to eat. The Fiftieth Year

And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

8 ‘ You are to number seven Years of Rest for yourself, seven times seven years. The time of the seven Years of Rest will be forty-nine years.

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.

9 T hen let the horn be heard on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the day to be made free from sin you will let a horn be heard all through your land.

Then shalt thou send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.

10 Y ou will honor the fiftieth year as holy. And let it be known in all the land that all who are living there are free. It will be a happy time for you. Each of you will return to what is his. Each will return to his family.

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

11 T hat fiftieth year will be a happy time for you. You will not plant seeds in the field, or gather the food that grows of itself, or gather fruit from the vines that are not cared for.

A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.

12 T his is a happy time. It will be holy to you. You will eat from what the field gives.

For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

13 ‘ In this Year of Jubilee each one will have what was his.

In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

14 I f you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, do not do wrong to one another.

And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.

15 Y ou will pay your neighbor by the number of years since the Year of Jubilee. And he will sell to you by the number of years the food may be gathered.

According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.

16 Y ou will make the price more if there are many years, and make the price less if there are few years. For he is selling you the food that is gathered each year.

According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee.

17 D o not do wrong to one another, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God. The Seventh Year

And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am Jehovah your God.

18 ‘ So keep My Laws and do what I say, and you will be safe living in the land.

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

19 T hen the land will give its food, so you can eat all you want and be safe living there.

And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

20 I f you say, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant seeds or gather in the food of our field?”

And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;

21 I will let My good come upon you in the sixth year, so it will give you enough food for three years.

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

22 W hen you are planting seeds in the eighth year, you can still eat from the old store of food. You can eat the old food until the food of the ninth year is gathered.

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

23 ‘ The land will not be sold to be kept forever. For the land is Mine. You are only strangers staying with Me.

And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

24 F or all the land you have, you must be willing to let it go.

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

25 W hen your brother becomes poor and sells some of his land, then one in his family who is near to him is to come and buy what his brother has sold.

If thy brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.

26 B ut a man may have no one to buy his land, and he himself may become able to buy it again.

And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it;

27 T hen he should add up the years since he sold it, and pay what is left of the price to the man to whom he sold it. So he will return to his own land.

then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.

28 B ut if he is not able to buy it again for himself, then what he has sold will belong to the one who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Year of Jubilee it will be let go and he may return to it.

But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath 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 unto his possession.

29 ‘ If a man sells a house within the walls of a city, he has the right to buy it back for a whole year from the time he sold it. He can buy it during that year.

And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.

30 B ut if it is not bought back again for him within a whole year, then the house within the city walls belongs forever to the family of the one who bought it. It will not be returned to him in the Year of Jubilee.

And if it be not 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 that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

31 B ut houses in towns that have no walls will be thought of as open fields. They may be let go, and will be returned in the Year of Jubilee.

But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

32 T he houses in the cities of the Levites may be returned to the Levites at any time.

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

33 I f a house is not bought again by a Levite, then the house that was sold in one of their cities will be returned to him in the Year of Jubilee. For the houses of the Levites belong to them among the people of Israel.

And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his 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 B ut the open field of their cities must not be sold. It belongs to them forever. The Poor Paying Money Back

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

35 ‘ If your brother becomes poor and is not able to pay you what he owes, then you should help him as you would help a stranger or visitor. So he may live with you.

And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

36 D o not make him pay for the use of the money he owes you. But fear your God, so your brother may live with you.

Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

37 D o not make him pay for the use of your money or your food.

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase.

38 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. About Servants and Workmen

I am Jehovah 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 becomes so poor that he sells himself to you, do not make him work as a servant.

And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant.

40 H e will be as a man who is paid to work for you, as one who is traveling from place to place, until the Year of Jubilee.

As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:

41 T hen he will leave you, he and his children, that he may return to the land of his fathers.

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

42 F or I brought them out of the land of Egypt as My servants. They are not to be sold as a servant.

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

43 D o not make it hard for him, but fear your God.

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.

44 T hose men and women you may have who are sold as servants will be from the nations around you.

And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

45 Y ou may buy from among the children of the strangers who live among you, and from their families that are with you and were born in your land. You may own them.

Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession.

46 Y ou may give them to your children after you, to receive as their own. You can have them as servants forever. But do not make it hard for your brothers, the people of Israel.

And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

47 ‘ Now a stranger or one visiting you may become rich. And your brother may become so poor that he sells himself to a stranger living among you, or to the children of a stranger’s family.

And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family;

48 T hen he may be made free after he has been sold. One of his brothers may pay the price to free him.

after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him;

49 H is father’s brother, the son of his father’s brother, or one of his own family may pay the price to free him. Or if he becomes rich he may pay the price himself.

or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be waxed rich, he may redeem himself.

50 W ith the one who bought him he will add the years from the year he sold himself until the Year of Jubilee. The price for him to be set free will be decided upon by the number of years. The time he was with the man who owned him will be as that of a man paid to work for him.

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.

51 I f there are still many years, he will return a part of the price which was given for him.

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

52 I f there is only a few years until the Year of Jubilee, he will decide upon the amount of money with his owner. He should pay the price to be set free, decided upon by the number of years.

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.

53 H e will be like a man paid to work for him year by year. Make sure his owner does not make it hard for him.

As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

54 E ven if the price is not paid for him in this way, he will go free in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children.

And if he be not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.

55 B ecause the people of Israel are My servants. They are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.