Lev 25
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And YHWH spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
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Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which
I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to YHWH.
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Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and
gather in its fruits;
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but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath
to YHWH: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.
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That which grows of itself of 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.
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And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for you, and for your servant
and for your maid, and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who sojourn with
you.
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And for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land, shall all the increase
thereof be for food.
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And you shall number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and
there shall be to you the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.
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Then shall you send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month;
in the day of atonement shall you send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
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And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to
all its inhabitants: it shall be a jubilee to you; and you shall return every
man to his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.
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A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: you shall not sow, neither reap that
which grows of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of the undressed vines.
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For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: you shall eat its increase out
of the field.
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In this year of jubilee you shall return every man to his possession.
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And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy of your neighbor`s hand, you shall
not wrong one another.
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According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor,
[and] according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
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According to the multitude of the years you shall increase its price, and
according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish the price of it; for the
number of the crops does he sell to you.
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And you shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am YHWH your
God.
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Wherefore you shall do my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them; and you
shall dwell in the land in safety.
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And the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein
in safety.
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And if you shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow,
nor gather in our increase;
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then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth
fruit for the three years.
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And 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.
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And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for you are strangers
and sojourners with me.
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And in all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
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If your brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman
that is next to him come, and shall redeem that which his brother has sold.
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And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to
redeem it;
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then let him reckon the years of its sale, and restore the overplus to the
man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his possession.
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But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he has sold shall
remain in the hand of him whom has bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the
jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.
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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; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.
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And if it be not 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 whom bought it, throughout
his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.
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But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned
with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the
jubilee.
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Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession,
may the Levites redeem at any time.
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And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his
possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites
are their possession among the children of Israel.
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But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual
possession.
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And if your brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with you; then you shall uphold
him: [as] a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with you.
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Take you no interest of him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may
live with you.
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You shall not give him your money upon interest, nor give him your victuals for increase.
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I am YHWH your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the
land of Canaan, [and] to be your God.
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And if your brother be waxed poor with you, and sell himself to you; you shall not
make him to serve as a bond-servant.
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As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with
you to the year of jubilee:
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then shall he go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his
own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.
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For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall
not be sold as bondmen.
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You shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear your God.
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And as for your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have; of the nations that
are round about you, of them shall you buy bondmen and bondmaids.
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Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall you
buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have engendered in your land:
and they shall be your possession.
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And you shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a
possession; of them shall you take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the
children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.
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And if a stranger or sojourner with you be waxed rich, and your brother be waxed poor
beside him, and sell himself to the stranger [or] sojourner with you, or to the stock
of the stranger`s family;
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after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him;
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or his uncle, or his uncle`s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin to him
of his family may redeem him; or if he be waxed rich, he may redeem himself.
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And he shall reckon with him whom bought him from the year that he sold himself to
him to the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number
of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.
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If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his
redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
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And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with
him; according to his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.
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As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor
over him in your sight.
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And if he be not redeemed by these [means], then he shall go out in the year of jubilee,
he, and his children with him.
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For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought
forth out of the land of Egypt: I am YHWH your God.