Leviticus 25

1And the Lord spoke to Moses in the mount Sina, saying, 2Speak to the children of Israel, and you shall say to them, Whenever you⌃ shall have enteredinto the land, which I give to you, then the land shall rest which I give to you, for its sabbaths tothe Lord. 3Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vine, and gatherin its fruit. 4But in the seventh yearshall be a sabbath, it shall be a rest to the land, a sabbath to the Lord: you shall not sowyour field, and you shall not prune your vine. 5And you shall not gather the spontaneous produce of your field, and you shall not gatherfully the grapes of your dedication: it shall be a year of rest to the land. 6And the sabbaths of the land shall be food for you, and for your man-servant, and foryour maidservant, and your hireling, and the stranger that abides with you. 7And for your cattle, and for the wild beats that are in your land, shall every fruit ofit be for food. 8And you shall reckon to yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; andthey shall be to you seven weeks of years, nine and forty years. 9In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you⌃ shall make a proclamation withthe sound of a trumpet in all your land; on the day of atonement you⌃ shall make a proclamation with atrumpet in all your land. 10And you⌃ shall sanctify the year, the fifties year, and you⌃ shall proclaim a releaseupon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and eachone shall depart to his possession, and you⌃ shall go each to his family. 11This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fifties year: you⌃ shall notsow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the land, neither shall you⌃ gather its dedicatedfruits. 12For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, you⌃ shall eat its fruits offthe fields. 13In the year of the releaseeven the jubilee of it, shalleach one return to his possession. 14And if you should sell a possession to your neighbor, or if you should buy of your neighbor,let not a man oppress his neighbor. 15According to the number of years after the jubilee shall you buy of your neighbor, accordingto the number of years of the fruits shall he sell to you. 16According asthere may be a greater number of years he shall increasethe value of his possession, and according asthere may be a less number of years he shall lessenthe value of his possession; for according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell toyou. 17Let not a man oppress his neighbor, and you shall fear the Lord your God: I am the Lordyour God. 18And you⌃ shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgments; and do you⌃ observe them,and you⌃ shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land. 19And the land shall yield her increase, and you⌃ shall eat to fullness, and shall dwellsecurely in it. 20And if you⌃ should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow norgather in our fruits? 21Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce itsfruits for three years. 22And you⌃ shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the ninth year: untilits fruit come, you⌃ shall eat old fruits of the old. 23And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because you⌃ arestrangers and sojourners before me. 24And in every land of your possession, you⌃ shall allow ransoms for the land. 25And if your brother who is with you be poor, and should have soldpart of his possession, and his kinsman who is near to him come, then he shall redeem the possessionwhich his brother has sold. 26And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficientmoney,even his ransom; 27then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what is due to the manto whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession. 28But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the moneyto him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and itshall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession. 29And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then there shall be theransom of it, untilthe time is fulfilled: its time of ransom shall be a full year. 30And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full year, the housewhich is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations;and it shall not go out in the release. 31But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them, shall be reckonedas the fields of the country: they shall always be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release. 32And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall bealways redeemable to the Levites. 33And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their sale of the housesof their possession go out in the release; because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possessionin the midst of the children of Israel. 34And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetualpossession. 35And if your brother who is with you become poor, and he fail in resources with you, youshall help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and your brother shall live with you. 36You shall not receive from him interest, nor increase: and you shall fear your God: Iam the Lord: and your brother shall live with you. 37You shall not lend your money to him at interest, and you shall not lend your meat tohim to be returned with increase. 38Iam the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan,so as to be your God. 39And if your brother by you be lowered, and be sold to you, he shall not serve you withthe servitude of a slave. 40He shall be with you as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for you till the yearof release: 41and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to hisfamily, he shall hasten back to his patrimony. 42Because these are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such an one shallnot be sold as acommon servant. 43You shall not oppress him with labor, and shall fear the Lord your God. 44And whatever number of menservants and maidservants you shall have, you shall purchasemale and female servants from the nations that are round about you. 45And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these you⌃ shall buy and oftheir relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession. 46And you⌃ shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanentpossessions for ever: but of your brethren the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother inlabors. 47And if a stranger or sojourner with you wax rich, and your brother in distress be soldto the stranger or the sojourner that is with you, or to a proselyte by extraction; 48after he is sold to him there shall be redemption for him, one of his brethren shallredeem him. 49A brother of his father, or a son of his father's brother shall redeem him; or let oneof his near kin of his tribe redeem him, and if he should be rich and redeem himself, 50then shall he calculate with his purchaser from the year that he sold himself to himuntil the year of release: and the money of his purchase shall be as that of a hireling, he shall be withhim from year to year. 51And if any have a greater number of yearsthan enough, according to these he shall pay his ransom out of his purchase-money. 52And if but a little time be left of the years to the year of release, then shall he reckonto him according to his years, and shall pay his ransom 53as a hireling; he shall be with him from year to year; you shall not oppress him withlabor before you. 54And if he do not pay his ransom accordingly, he shall go out in the year of his release,he and his children with him. 55For the children of Israel are my servants: they are my attendants, whom I brought outof the land of Egypt.