Bible, King James Version
Leviticus
Lev.25
[1] And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai,
saying,
[2] 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 the LORD.
[3] Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou
shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
[4] But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest
unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy
field, nor prune thy vineyard.
[5] That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest
thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine
undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
[6] And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for
thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired
servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
[7] And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy
land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
[8] And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto
thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven
sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
[9] Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to
sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of
atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your
land.
[10] And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof:
it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto
his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his
family.
[11] A jubile 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 thy vine undressed.
[12] For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye
shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
[13] In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man
unto his possession.
[14] And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest
ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one
another:
[15] According to the number of years after the jubile
thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of
years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
[16] According to the multitude of years thou shalt
increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years
thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number
of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
[17] Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou
shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
[18] Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my
judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in
safety.
[19] And the land shall yield her fruit, and he shall eat
your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
[20] And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh
year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
[21] Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth
year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
[22] And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old
fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat
of the old store.
[23] The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is
mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
[24] And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant
a redemption for the land.
[25] If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some
of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then
shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
[26] And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be
able to redeem it;
[27] Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and
restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may
return unto his possession.
[28] But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that
which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it
until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and
he shall return unto his possession.
[29] 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;
within a full year may he redeem it.
[30] And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full
year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be
established for ever to him that bought it throughout his
generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
[31] But the houses of the villages which have no wall
round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country:
they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
[32] Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the
houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem
at any time.
[33] And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house
that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in
the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites
are their possession among the children of Israel.
[34] But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not
be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
[35] And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay
with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a
stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
[36] Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy
God; that thy brother may live with thee.
[37] Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor
lend him thy victuals for increase.
[38] I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out
of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be
your God.
[39] And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen
poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve
as a bondservant:
[40] But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall
be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
[41] And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his
children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto
the possession of his fathers shall he return.
[42] For they are my servants, which I brought forth out
of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
[43] Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt
fear thy God.
[44] Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt
have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them
shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
[45] Moreover of the children of the strangers that do
sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families
that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall
be your possession.
[46] And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your
children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall
be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of
Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
[47] And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and
thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto
the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the
stranger's family:
[48] After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one
of his brethren may redeem him:
[49] Either 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 able, he may redeem himself.
[50] And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the
year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the
price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years,
according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with
him.
[51] If there be yet many years behind, according unto
them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the
money that he was bought for.
[52] And if there remain but few years unto the year of
jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his
years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
[53] And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him:
and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy
sight.
[54] And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he
shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children
with him.
[55] 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 the LORD your God.
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