And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to Jehovah.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof;
but in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field thou shalt not sow, nor prune thy vineyard.
That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the land.
And the Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle,
and for the beasts that [are] in thy land: all the produce thereof, it shall be for your food.
And thou shalt count to thee seven Sabbaths of years, seven years seven times; and the days of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to thee forty and nine years.
And thou shalt cause a sound of the trumpet to go forth in the seventh month on the tenth [day] of the month; on the day of atonement shall ye sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all the inhabitants thereof: a jubilee shall it be to you, and ye shall return [every] man to his possession, and ye shall return [every] man to his family.
A jubilee this fiftieth year [shall] be to you: ye shall not sow, nor reap its after-growth, nor gather one of its separations.
For it [is] the jubilee; it shall be holy to you; out of the field ye shall eat its produce.
In this year of jubilee shall ye return [every] man to his possession.
And if thou sell aught to thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not overreach one another.
According to the number of years since the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to thee.
According to the greater number of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price thereof; for it is the number of the crops that he selleth to thee.
And ye shall not overreach one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I [am] Jehovah your God.
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old, until the ninth year; until its fruits come in, ye shall eat [of] the old.
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land [is] mine; for ye [are] strangers and sojourners with me.
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
If thy brother grow poor and sell of his possession, then shall his nearest of kin come and redeem what his brother sold.
And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand hath attained and found sufficiency for its redemption,
then shall he reckon the years since his sale, and restore the overplus to the man to whom he sold it; and so return to his possession.
And if his hand, have not found what sufficeth to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
And if any one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he shall have the right of redemption up to the end of the year of the sale; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
But if it be not redeemed until a whole year is complete, then the house that [is] in the walled city shall be established forever to him that bought it throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee.
But the houses in villages that 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.
But [as to] the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.
And if a man redeem from one of the Levites , then the house that was sold in 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.
And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it [is] their perpetual possession.
And if thy brother grow poor and be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.
Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live beside thee.
Thy money shalt thou not give him on usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
I [am] Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant:
as a hired servant, as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; until the year of jubilee he shall serve with thee.
And he shall go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his father he shall return.
For they [are] my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as they sell bondmen.
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, and thou shalt fear thy God.
And thy bondmen and thy bondmaids whom thou shalt have—of the nations that are round about you—of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Moreover of the children of those that dwell as sojourners with you, of them shall ye buy and of their families that [are] with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall be your possession.
And ye shall make them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit as a possession: these ye shall make your bondmen forever; but your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.
And if a stranger or a sojourner with thee become rich beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself to the stranger [or] sojourner with thee, or to a descendant of the stranger’s family:
after he is sold, there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him;
or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any of his next of kin of his family may redeem him; or if he may obtain the means, he may redeem himself.
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years; according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.
If [there be] yet many years, according to them shall he return his redemption out of the money he was bought for.
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years shall he return the price of his redemption.
As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year: he shall not rule with rigor over him before thine eyes.
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.
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] Jehovah your God.