Leviticus 25:7-41

⁷And for your cattle, and for the wild beats that are in your land, shall every fruit of it be for food.

⁸And you shall reckon to yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and they shall be to you seven weeks of years, nine and forty years.

⁹In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you° shall make a proclamation with the sound of a trumpet in all your land; on the day of atonement you° shall make a proclamation with a trumpet in all your land.

¹⁰And you° shall sanctify the year, the fifties year, and you° shall proclaim a release upon the land to all that inhabit it; it shall be given a year of release, a jubilee for you; and each one shall depart to his possession, and you° shall go each to his family.

¹¹This is a jubilee of release, the year shall be to you the fifties year: you° shall not sow, nor reap the produce that comes of itself from the land, neither shall you° gather its dedicated fruits.

¹²For it is a jubilee of release; it shall be holy to you, you° shall eat its fruits off the fields.

¹³In the year of the release even the jubilee of it, shall each one return to his possession.

¹⁴And if you should sell a possession to your neighbour, or if you should buy of your neighbour, let not a man oppress his neighbour.

¹⁵According to the number of years after the jubilee shall you buy of your neighbour, according to the number of years of the fruits shall he sell to you.

¹⁶According as there may be a greater number of years he shall increase the value of his possession, and according as there may be a less number of years he shall lessen the value of his possession; for according to the number of his crops, so shall he sell to you.

¹⁷Let not a man oppress his neighbour, and you shall fear the Lord your God: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁸And you° shall keep all my ordinances, and all my judgements; and do you° observe them, and you° shall keep them, and dwell securely in the land.

¹⁹And the land shall yield her increase, and you° shall eat to fullness, and shall dwell securely in it.

²⁰And if you° should say, What shall we eat in this seventh year, if we do not sow nor gather in our fruits?

²¹Then will I send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and the land shall produce its fruits for three years.

²²And you° shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old fruits till the ninth year: until its fruit come, you° shall eat old fruits of the old.

²³And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because you° are strangers and sojourners before me.

²⁴And in every land of your possession, you° shall allow ransoms for the land.

²⁵And if your brother who is with you be poor, and should have sold part of his possession, and his kinsman who is near to him come, then he shall redeem the possession which his brother has sold.

²⁶And if one have no near kinsman, and he prosper with his hand, and he find sufficient money, even his ransom;

²⁷then shall he calculate the years of his sale, and he shall give what is due to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.

²⁸But if his hand have not prospered sufficiently, so as that he should restore the money to him, then he that bought the possessions shall have them till the sixth year of the release; and it shall go out in the release, and the owner shall return to his possession.

²⁹And if any one should sell an inhabited house in a walled city, then there shall be the ransom of it, until the time is fulfilled: its time of ransom shall be a full year.

³⁰And if it be not ransomed until there be completed of its time a full year, the house which is in the walled city shall be surely confirmed to him that bought it, throughout his generations; and it shall not go out in the release.

³¹But the houses in the villages which have not a wall round about them, shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they shall always be redeemable, and they shall go out in the release.

³²And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities in their possession, shall be always redeemable to the Levites.

³³And if any one shall redeem a house of the Levites, then shall their sale of the houses of their possession go out in the release; because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession in the midst of the children of Israel.

³⁴And the lands set apart for their cities shall not be sold, because this is their perpetual possession.

³⁵And if your brother who is with you become poor, and he fail in resources with you, you shall help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and your brother shall live with you.

³⁶You shall not receive from him interest, nor increase: and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord: and your brother shall live with you.

³⁷You shall not lend your money to him at interest, and you shall not lend your meat to him to be returned with increase.

³⁸I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Chanaan, so as to be your God.

³⁹And if your brother by you be lowered, and be sold to you, he shall not serve you with the servitude of a slave.

⁴⁰He shall be with you as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for you till the year of release:

⁴¹and he shall go out in the release, and his children with him; and he shall go to his family, he shall hasten back to his patrimony.