Levítico 25

¹ And the Lorde spake vnto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

² Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye shall come into the lande which I giue you, the lande shall keepe Sabbath vnto the Lorde.

³ The Jews began to count the year in September: for then all the fruits were gathered.Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

⁴ But the seuenth yeere shalbe a Sabbath of rest vnto the lande: it shall be the Lordes Sabbath: thou shalt neither sowe thy fielde, nor cut thy vineyarde.

⁵ That which groweth of itsBecause of the corn that fell out of the ears the previous year.own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vineOr, which you have separated from yourself, and consecrated to God for the poor.undressed: [for] it is a year of rest unto the land.

⁶ And theThat which the land brings forth in her rest.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 cattell, and for the beastes that are in thy lande shall all the encrease thereof be meate.

⁸ Also thou shalt number seuen Sabbaths of yeeres vnto thee, euen seuen times seuen yeere: and the space of the seuen Sabbaths of yeeres will be vnto thee nine and fourtie yeere.

⁹ In the beginning of the 50 years was the Jubile, so called, because the joyful tidings of liberty were publicly proclaimed by the sound of a cornet.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 theWhich were in bondage.inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto hisBecause the tribes should neither have their possessions diminished nor confounded.possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

¹¹ This fiftieth yeere shalbe a yeere of Iubile vnto you: ye shall not sowe, neither reape that which groweth of it selfe, neither gather the grapes thereof, that are left vnlaboured.

¹² For it is the Iubile, it shall be holy vnto you: ye shall eate of the encrease thereof out of the fielde.

¹³ In the yeere of this Iubile, ye shall returne euery man vnto his possession.

¹⁴ And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shallBy deceit, or otherwise.not oppress one another:

¹⁵ According to the number ofIf the Jubile to come is near, you would be better to sell cheaply. If it is far off, sell at a higher price.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 theAnd not the full possession of the land.fruits doth he sell unto thee.

¹⁷ Oppresse not ye therefore any man his neighbour, but thou shalt feare thy God: for I am the Lorde your God.

¹⁸ Wherefore ye shall obey mine ordinances, and keepe my lawes, and do them, and ye shall dwell in the land in safetie.

¹⁹ And the lande shall giue her fruite, and ye shall eate your fill, and dwell therein in safetie.

²⁰ And if ye shall say, What shall we eate the seuenth yeere, for we shall not sowe, nor gather in our increase?

²¹ I will sende my blessing vpon you in the sixt yeere, and it shall bring foorth fruite for three yeeres.

²² And ye shall sowe the eight yeere, & eate of the olde fruite vntill the ninth yeere: vntill the fruite thereof come, ye shall eate the olde.

²³ The land shall not be soldIt could not be sold for ever, but must return to the family in the Jubile.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 shallYou shall sell it on the condition that it may be redeemed.grant a redemption for the land.

²⁵ If thy brother be impouerished, and sell his possession, then his redeemer shall come, euen his neere kinsman, and bye out that which his brother solde.

²⁶ And if he haue no redeemer, but hath gotten and founde to bye it out,

²⁷ Then let himDeducting money for the years past, and paying for the rest of the years to come.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 goFrom his hand that bought it.out, and he shall return unto his possession.

²⁹ Likewise if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled citie, he may bye it out againe within a whole yeere after it is solde: within a yeere may he bye it out.

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 establishedThat is, for ever, read (Lev_25:23).for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

³¹ But the houses of villages, which haue no walles round about them, shalbe esteemed as the fielde of the countrey: they may be bought out againe, and shall goe out in the Iubile.

³² Notwithstanding, the cities of the Leuites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Leuites redeeme at all seasons.

³³ And if a man purchase of the Leuites, the house that was solde, and the citie of their possession shall goe out in the Iubile: for the houses of the cities of the Leuites are their possession among the children of Israel.

³⁴ But the field of theWhere the Levites kept their cattle.suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession.

³⁵ And if thy brother be waxen poor, andIn Hebrew it is, if his hand shake: meaning if he stretch forth his hand for help as one in misery.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 Thou shalt take no vsurie of him, nor vantage, but thou shalt feare thy God, that thy brother may liue with thee.

³⁷ Thou shalt not giue him thy money to vsurie, nor lende him thy vitailes for increase.

³⁸ I am the Lorde your God, which haue brought you out of the lande of Egypt, to giue you the lande of Canaan, and to be your God.

³⁹ If thy brother also that dwelleth by thee, be impouerished, and be sold vnto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serue as a bond seruant,

⁴⁰ But as an hired seruant, and as a soiourner he shalbe with thee: he shall serue thee vnto the yeere of the Iubile.

⁴¹ Then shall he depart from thee, both hee, and his children with him, and shall returne vnto his familie, and vnto the possession of his fathers shall he returne:

⁴² For they [are] my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall notTo perpetual servitude.be sold as bondmen.

⁴³ Thou shalt not rule ouer him cruelly, but shalt feare thy God.

⁴⁴ Thy bond seruant also, & thy bond maid, which thou shalt haue, shalbe of the heathen that are rounde about you: of them shall ye bye seruants and maydes.

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 yourFor they shall not be bought out at the Jubile.possession.

⁴⁶ So ye shall take them as inheritance for your children after you, to possesse them by inheritance, ye shall vse their labours for euer: but ouer your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule one ouer another with crueltie.

⁴⁷ If a soiourner or a stranger dwelling by thee get riches, & thy brother by him be impouerished, and sell him selfe vnto the stranger or soiourner dwelling by thee, or to the stocke of the strangers familie,

⁴⁸ After that he is solde, he may be bought out: one of his brethren may bye him out,

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; orIf he be able.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 ofWhich remains yet to the Jubile.years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

⁵¹ If there be many yeeres behind, according to them he shall giue againe for his deliuerance, of the money that he was bought for.

⁵² If there remaine but fewe yeeres vnto the yeere of Iubile, then he shall count with him, and according to his yeeres giue againe for 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 thyYou shall not allow him to treat him severely, if you know it.sight.

⁵⁴ And if he be not redeemed thus, he shal go out in the yeere of Iubile, he, and his children with him.

⁵⁵ For vnto me the children of Israel are seruants: they are my seruants, who I haue brought out of the land of Egypt: I am ye Lord your God.