[1] The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai, [2] "Say to the people of
Israel, When you come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a
sabbath to the LORD. [3] Six years you shall sow your field, and six years
you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits; [4] but in the
seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a
sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
[5] What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes
of your undressed vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn
rest for the land. [6] The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you,
for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant
and the sojourner who lives with you; [7] for your cattle also and for the
beasts that are in your land all its yield shall be for food. [8] "And you
shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time
of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years. [9] Then you
shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month;
on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all
your land. [10] And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee
for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you
shall return to his family. [11] A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to
you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather
the grapes from the undressed vines. [12] For it is a jubilee; it shall be
holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field. [13] "In this
year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. [14] And if you
sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one
another. [15] According to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall
buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years for crops he
shall sell to you. [16] If the years are many you shall increase the price,
and if the years are few you shall diminish the price, for it is the number
of the crops that he is selling to you. [17] You shall not wrong one
another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God. [18]
"Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform
them; so you will dwell in the land securely. [19] The land will yield its
fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell in it securely. [20] And if
you say, `What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or
gather in our crop?' [21] I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth
year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years. [22] When you sow
in the eighth year, you will be eating old produce; until the ninth year,
when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old. [23] The land shall not
be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and
sojourners with me. [24] And in all the country you possess, you shall
grant a redemption of the land. [25] "If your brother becomes poor, and
sells part of his property, then his next of kin shall come and redeem what
his brother has sold. [26] If a man has no one to redeem it, and then
himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, [27]
let him reckon the years since he sold it and pay back the overpayment to
the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property. [28] But
if he has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he
sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of
jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his
property. [29] "If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may
redeem it within a whole year after its sale; for a full year he shall have
the right of redemption. [30] If it is not redeemed within 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] But the houses of the villages which have no wall
around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be
redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee. [32] Nevertheless the
cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the
Levites may redeem at any time. [33] And if one of the Levites does not
exercise his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city of
their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in the
cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel. [34]
But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold;
for that is their perpetual possession. [35] "And if your brother becomes
poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a
stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you. [36] Take no interest from
him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.
[37] 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 forth out of the
land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. [39] "And
if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you
shall not make him serve as a slave: [40] he shall be with you as a hired
servant and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the
jubilee; [41] then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him,
and go back to his own family, and return to the possession of his fathers.
[42] For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of
Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. [43] You shall not rule over him
with harshness, but shall fear your God. [44] As for your male and female
slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the
nations that are round about you. [45] You may also buy from among the
strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who
have been born in your land; and they may be your property. [46] You may
bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever;
you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel
you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness. [47] "If a stranger
or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes
poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to a
member of the stranger's family, [48] then after he is sold he may be
redeemed; one of his brothers may redeem him, [49] or his uncle, or his
cousin may redeem him, or a near kinsman belonging to his family may redeem
him; or if he grows rich he may redeem himself. [50] He shall reckon with
him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year
of jubilee, and the price of his release shall be according to the number
of years; the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a
hired servant. [51] If there are still many years, according to them he
shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption.
[52] If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall
make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him
he shall refund the money for his redemption. [53] As a servant hired year
by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him in
your sight. [54] And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be
released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him. [55] For to
me the people 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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