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And the
Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
02 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
the Lord.
03 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and
six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and
gather in the fruit thereof;
04 But in the seventh year shall be a
sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the
Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune
thy vineyard.
05 That which groweth of its own accord of
thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather
the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a
year of rest unto the land.
06 And the sabbath of the land shall be
meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and
for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for
thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.
07 And for thy cattle, and for the beast
that are in thy land, shall all the increase
thereof be meat.
08 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of
years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the
space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be
unto thee forty and nine years.
09 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the
jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh
month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the
trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto
all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile
unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his
possession, and ye shall return every man unto
his family.
11 A jubile 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 thy vine undressed.
12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy
unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out
of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye shall
return every man unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy
neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's
hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
15 According to the number of years after
the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and
according unto the number of years of the fruits
he shall sell unto thee:
16 According to the multitude of years thou
shalt increase the price thereof, and according
to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the
price of it: for according to the number of the
years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one
another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the
Lord your God.
18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and
keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall
dwell in the land in safety.
19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and
ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in
safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat
the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor
gather in our increase:
21 Then I will command my blessing upon you
in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit
for three years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and
eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until
her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for
the land is mine, for ye are strangers and
sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your possession
ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath
sold away some of his possession, and if any of
his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem
that which his brother sold.
26 And if the man have none to redeem it,
and himself be able to redeem it;
27 Then let him count the years of the sale
thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to
whom he sold it; that he may return unto his
possession.
28 But if he be not able to restore it to
him, then that which is sold shall remain in the
hand of him that hath bought it until the year of
jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he
shall return unto his possession.
29 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; within a full year may he
redeem it.
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30 And if it be not redeemed within the
space of a full year, then the house that is in
the walled city shall be established for ever to
him that bought it throughout his generations: it
shall not go out in the jubile.
31 But the houses of the villages which
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 jubile.
32 Notwithstanding the cities of the
Levites, and the houses of the cities of their
possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
33 And if a man purchase of the Levites,
then the house that was sold, and the city of his
possession, shall go out in the year of jubile:
for the houses of the cities of the Levites are
their possession among the children of Israel.
34 But the field of the suburbs of their
cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual
possession.
35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and
fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt
relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a
sojourner; that he may live with thee.
36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase:
but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with
thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon
usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
38 I am the Lord your God, which brought
you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you
the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee
be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt
not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
40 But as an hired servant, and as a
sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve
thee unto the year of jubile.
41 And then shall he depart from thee, both
he and his children with him, and shall return
unto his own family, and unto the possession of
his fathers shall he return.
42 For they are my servants, which I
brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they
shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with
rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids,
which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen
that are round about you; of them shall ye buy
bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the
strangers that do sojourn among you, of them
shall ye buy, and of their families that are with
you, which they begat in your land: and they
shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance
for your children after you, to inherit them for
a possession; they shall be your bondmen for
ever: but over your brethren the children of
Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with
rigour.
47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich
by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax
poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or
sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the
stranger's family:
48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed
again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
49 Either 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
able, he may redeem himself.
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought
him from the year that he was sold to him unto
the year of jubile: and the price of his sale
shall be according unto the number of years,
according to the time of an hired servant shall
it be with him.
51 If there be yet many years behind,
according unto them he shall give again the price
of his redemption out of the money that he was
bought for.
52 And if there remain but few years unto
the year of jubile, then he shall count with him,
and according unto his years shall he give him
again the price of his redemption.
53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he
be with him: and the other shall not rule with
rigour over him in thy sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed in these
years, then he shall go out in the year of
jubile, both he, and his children with him.
55 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 the Lord
your God.
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