| Chapter
25 |
| 1 | And
the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, |
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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 jubilee 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 jubilee unto you; and ye shall
return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his
family. |
| 11 | A jubilee
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 jubilee; it
shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. |
| 13 | In the year of this
jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. |
| 14 | And if thou sell ought unto thy
neighbor, or buyest ought of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one
another: |
| 15 | According to
the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, 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 ye 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. |
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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. |
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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 jubilee: and in the jubilee
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. |
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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 jubilee. |
| 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 jubilee. |
| 32 | Notwithstanding the
cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may
the Levites redeem at any time. |
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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 jubilee: 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: |
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40 | But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he
shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee. |
| 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 rigor; 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 rigor. |
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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: |
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48 | After that he is sold he may be redeemed again;
one of his brethren may redeem him: |
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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 jubilee: 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. |
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52 | And if there remain but few years unto the year
of jubilee, 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 rigor over him in thy sight. |
| 54 | And if he be not redeemed in these
years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, 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. |
