Leviticus 25:5-18

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,