Leviticus 25:2-30

²Speak thou to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye have entered into the land which I shall give to you, the earth keep the sabbath of the Lord;

³six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vine-yard, and thou shalt gather the fruits thereof;

⁴forsooth in the seventh year shall be the sabbath of the earth, of the resting of the Lord; thou shalt not sow the field, and thou shalt not cut the vineyard,

⁵thou shalt not reap those things which the earth bringeth forth freely, and thou shalt not gather the grapes of thy first fruits, as vintage; for it is the year of resting of the land;

⁶but those fruits shall be to you into meat, to thee, and to thy servant, and to thine handmaid, and to thine hired man, and to the comeling that is a pilgrim with thee;

⁷all things that come forth, shall give meat to thy work beasts, and thy small beasts.

⁸Also thou shalt number to thee seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which altogether make nine and forty years;

⁹and thou shalt sound with a clarion in the seventh month, in the tenth day of the month, in the time of propitiation, that is, mercy, in all your land.

¹⁰And thou shalt hallow the fiftieth year, and thou shalt call it remission, or forgiveness, to all the dwellers of thy land; for that year is the jubilee, that is, the joyful year; a man shall turn again to his possession, and each man shall go again to his first meine,

¹¹for it is the jubilee, and the fiftieth year. Ye shall not sow, neither ye shall reap those things, that come forth freely in the field, and ye shall not gather the first fruits of the vintage,

¹²for the hallowing of the jubilee; but anon ye shall eat things taken away;

¹³in the year of jubilee, all men go again to their possessions.

¹⁴When thou shalt sell anything to thy fellow citizen, either shalt buy of him, make thou not sorry thy brother,

¹⁵but by the number of the years of the jubilee thou shalt buy of him, and by the reckoning of fruits, he shall sell to thee.

¹⁶By as much as more years dwell after the jubilee, by so much also the price shall increase, and by as much as thou numberest less of time, by so much and the buying shall cost less; for he shall sell to thee the time of fruits.

¹⁷Do not ye torment men of your lineages, but each man dread his God; for I am your Lord God.

¹⁸Do ye my behests, and keep ye my dooms, and fulfill ye those, that ye may dwell in this land without any dread,

¹⁹and that the earth bring forth his fruits to you, which ye shall eat till to fullness, and dread not the assailing of any man.

²⁰That if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we sow not, neither gather our fruits?

²¹I shall give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall make the fruits of three years;

²²and ye shall sow in the eighth year, and ye shall eat eld or old fruits till to the ninth year; till new things come forth, ye shall eat the eld or old things.

²³Also the land shall not be sold into without end, for it is mine, and ye be my comelings, and my tenants;

²⁴wherefore all the country of your possession shall be sold under the condition of again-buying.

²⁵If thy brother is made poor, and selleth his little possession, and his nigh kinsmen will, he may again-buy that that he sold;

²⁶soothly if he hath no nigh kinsman, and he may find the price to again-buy,

²⁷the fruits shall be reckoned from that time in which he sold it, and he shall yield that that is left to the buyer, and he shall receive so his possession again.

²⁸That if his hand findeth not, that he yield the price, the buyer shall have that that he bought, till to the year of jubilee; for in that year each selling shall go again to the lord, and to the first wielder.

²⁹He that selleth his house, within the walls of a city, shall have license to again-buy, till one year be full-filled;

³⁰if he again-buyeth not, and the circle of the year is passed, the buyer shall wield it, and his heirs into without end, and it shall not be able to be again-bought, yea, in the jubilee.