1 T he Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai,

Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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.

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

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

“‘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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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 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 to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

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

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

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

“‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you 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 you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

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

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

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

“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you 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.

The land shall yield its fruit, and you 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?”

If you said, “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 on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear 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.

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 ‘ The land will not be sold to be kept forever. For the land is Mine. You are only strangers staying 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 F or all the land you have, you must be willing to let it go.

In all the land of your possession you 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 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 B ut a man may have no one to buy his land, and he himself may become able to buy it again.

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

“‘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 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.

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 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 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 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 in the cities of their possession, the Levites may 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.

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 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.

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

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

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 out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. About Servants and Workmen

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 ‘ If your brother becomes so poor that he sells himself to you, do not make him work as a servant.

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

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 temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until 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 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 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 out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.

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

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

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

“‘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 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 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 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.

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 ‘ 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.

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

after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers 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 who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown 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.

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

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 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.

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 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 harshness over him in your 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.

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 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 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.