Leviticus 25
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Leviticus 25
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| And Jehovah spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, | And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai, |
| 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 Jehovah. | Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord. |
| Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof; | For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them; |
| but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. | But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut. |
| That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather: it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. | That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land. |
| And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee. | And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you; |
| And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food. | And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food. |
| And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years. | And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years; |
| Then shalt thou send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. | Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land. |
| And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout 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. | And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family. |
| 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 the undressed vines. | Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines. |
| For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. | For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field. |
| In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. | In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage. |
| And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong one another. | And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another. |
| According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, [and] according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee. | Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce. |
| According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee. | If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you. |
| And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am Jehovah your God. | And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God. |
| Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. | So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land. |
| And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. | And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land. |
| And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase; | And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase |
| then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years. | Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years. |
| And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old store. | And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready. |
| And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. | No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time. |
| And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. | Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back. |
| If thy brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold. | If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up. |
| And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it; | And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back; |
| then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession. | Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property. |
| But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath 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. | But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again. |
| 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. | And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up. |
| 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 that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. | And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee. |
| 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. | But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee. |
| Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. | But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time. |
| 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. | And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel. |
| But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession. | But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever. |
| And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: [as] a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee. | And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you. |
| Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. | Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you. |
| Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase. | Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him. |
| I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, [and] to be your God. | I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God. |
| And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant. | And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property; |
| As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee: | But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee; |
| then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. | Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers. |
| For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. | For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another. |
| Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God. | Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you. |
| And as for 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. | But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants. |
| Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession. | And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property. |
| And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor. | And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel. |
| And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger [or] sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family; | And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family; |
| after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him; | After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers, |
| or 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 waxed rich, he may redeem himself. | Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free. |
| 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 unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him. | And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant. |
| If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. | If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him. |
| And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption. | And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free. |
| As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight. | And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your 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. | And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him. |
| 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 Jehovah your God. | For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. |
