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Leviticus, starting at chapter 25
{25:1} The LORD said to Moses in Mount Sinai, {25:2} "Speak to the
children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which
I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD. {25:3} Six
years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your
vineyard, and gather in its fruits; {25:4} but in the seventh year
there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the
LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. {25:5} What
grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of
your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn
rest for the land. {25:6} The Sabbath of the land shall be for food
for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired
servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
{25:7} For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your
land, shall all its increase be for food.
{25:8} "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times
seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of
years, even forty-nine years. {25:9} Then you shall sound the loud
[1>]shofar[<1] on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of
Atonement you shall sound the [2>]shofar[<2] throughout all your land.
{25:10} You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty
throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to
you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you
shall return to his family. {25:11} That fiftieth year shall be a
jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows
of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. {25:12} For it is a
jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of
the field.
{25:13} "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his
property.
{25:14} "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your
neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. {25:15} According to the
number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor.
According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
{25:16} According to the length of the years you shall increase its
price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish
its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. {25:17}
You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am
the LORD your God.
{25:18} "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances
and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. {25:19} The
land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell
therein in safety. {25:20} If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh
year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase"; {25:21}
then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall
bring forth fruit for the three years. {25:22} You shall sow the
eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth
year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
{25:23} "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is
mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. {25:24} In
all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the
land.
{25:25} "'If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his
possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and
redeem that which his brother has sold. {25:26} If a man has no one to
redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to
redeem it; {25:27} then let him reckon the years since its sale, and
restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return
to his property. {25:28} But if he isn't able to get it back for
himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has
bought it until the Year of Jubilee: and in the Jubilee it shall be
released, and he shall return to his property.
{25:29} "'If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he
may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full
year he shall have the right of redemption. {25:30} If it isn't
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 who bought it,
throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
{25:31} But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them
shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be
redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
{25:32} "'Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the
cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.
{25:33} The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city
of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the
houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the
children of Israel. {25:34} But the field of the suburbs of their
cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
{25:35} "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't
support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with
you like an alien and a temporary resident. {25:36} Take no interest
from him or profit, but fear your God; that your brother may live
among you. {25:37} You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor
give him your food for profit. {25:38} I am the LORD your God, who
brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of
Canaan, and to be your God.
{25:39} "'If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells
himself to you; you shall not make him to serve as a slave. {25:40} As
a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he
shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee: {25:41} then he shall
go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his
own family, and to the possession of his fathers. {25:42} For they are
my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not
be sold as slaves. {25:43} You shall not rule over him with harshness,
but shall fear your God.
{25:44} "'As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may
have; of the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male
and female slaves. {25:45} Moreover of the children of the aliens who
live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are
with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be
your property. {25:46} You may make them an inheritance for your
children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take
your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you
shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
{25:47} "'If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich,
and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the
stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the
stranger's family; {25:48} after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of
his brothers may redeem him; {25:49} or his uncle, or his uncle's son,
may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family
may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
{25:50} He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he
sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale
shall be according to the number of years; according to the time of a
hired servant shall he be with him. {25:51} If there are yet many
years, according to them he shall give back the price of his
redemption out of the money that he was bought for. {25:52} If there
remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon
with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the
price of his redemption. {25:53} As a servant hired year by year shall
he be with him: he shall not rule with harshness over him in your
sight. {25:54} If he isn't redeemed by these means, then he shall be
released in the Year of Jubilee, he, and his children with him.
{25:55} For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my
servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your
God.
{26:1} "'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you
raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any
figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your
God.
{26:2} "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my
sanctuary. I am the LORD.
{26:3} "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and
do them; {26:4} then I will give you your rains in their season, and
the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall
yield their fruit. {26:5} Your threshing shall reach to the vintage,
and the vintage shall reach to the sowing time; and you shall eat your
bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
{26:6} "'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and
no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the
land, neither shall the sword go through your land. {26:7} You shall
chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
{26:8} Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall
chase ten thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the
sword.
{26:9} "'I will have respect for you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you. {26:10} You
shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because
of the new. {26:11} I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't
abhor you. {26:12} I will walk among you, and will be your God, and
you will be my people. {26:13} I am the LORD your God, who brought you
forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;
and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
{26:14} "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all
these commandments; {26:15} and if you shall reject my statutes, and
if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my
commandments, but break my covenant; {26:16} I also will do this to
you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that
shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and you will
sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it. {26:17} I will
set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies.
Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one
pursues you.
{26:18} "'If you in spite of these things will not listen to me,
then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins. {26:19} I
will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like
iron, and your soil like brass; {26:20} and your strength will be
spent in vain; for your land won't yield its increase, neither will
the trees of the land yield their fruit.
{26:21} "'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I
will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
{26:22} I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of
your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and
your roads will become desolate.
{26:23} "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will
walk contrary to me; {26:24} then I will also walk contrary to you;
and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins. {26:25} I
will bring a sword upon you, that will execute the vengeance of the
covenant; and you will be gathered together within your cities: and I
will send the pestilence among you; and you will be delivered into the
hand of the enemy. {26:26} When I break your staff of bread, ten women
shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread
again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.
{26:27} "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk
contrary to me; {26:28} then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and
I also will chastise you seven times for your sins. {26:29} You will
eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your
daughters. {26:30} I will destroy your high places, and cut down your
incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your
idols; and my soul will abhor you. {26:31} I will lay your cities
waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not
take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings. {26:32} I will
bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein
will be astonished at it. {26:33} I will scatter you among the
nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land will
be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste. {26:34} Then the
land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are
in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its
sabbaths. {26:35} As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even
the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
{26:36} "'As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness
into their hearts in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a
driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees
from the sword; and they will fall when no one pursues. {26:37} They
will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no
one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
{26:38} You will perish among the nations, and the land of your
enemies will eat you up. {26:39} Those of you who are left will pine
away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the
iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
{26:40} "'If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their
fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also
that, because they walked contrary to me, {26:41} I also walked
contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if
then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the
punishment of their iniquity; {26:42} then I will remember my covenant
with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with
Abraham; and I will remember the land. {26:43} The land also will be
left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate
without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity;
because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul
abhorred my statutes. {26:44} Yet for all that, when they are in the
land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor
them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for
I am the LORD their God; {26:45} but I will for their sake remember
the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of
Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the
LORD.'"
{26:46} These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which the LORD
made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
{27:1} The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {27:2} "Speak to the
children of Israel, and say to them, 'When a man makes a vow, the
persons shall be for the LORD by your valuation. {27:3} Your valuation
shall be of a male from twenty years old even to sixty years old, even
your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of
the sanctuary. {27:4} If it is a female, then your valuation shall be
thirty shekels. {27:5} If the person is from five years old even to
twenty years old, then your valuation shall be for a male twenty
shekels, and for a female ten shekels. {27:6} If the person is from a
month old even to five years old, then your valuation shall be for a
male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be
three shekels of silver. {27:7} If the person is from sixty years old
and upward; if it is a male, then your valuation shall be fifteen
shekels, and for a female ten shekels. {27:8} But if he is poorer than
your valuation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest
shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed shall the
priest value him.
{27:9} "'If it is an animal, of which men offer an offering to the
LORD, all that any man gives of such to the LORD becomes holy. {27:10}
He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a
good: and if he shall at all change animal for animal, then both it
and that for which it is changed shall be holy. {27:11} If it is any
unclean animal, of which they do not offer as an offering to the LORD,
then he shall set the animal before the priest; {27:12} and the priest
shall value it, whether it is good or bad. As you the priest values
it, so shall it be. {27:13} But if he will indeed redeem it, then he
shall add the fifth part of it to its valuation.
{27:14} "'When a man dedicates his house to be holy to the LORD,
then the priest shall evaluate it, whether it is good or bad: as the
priest shall evaluate it, so shall it stand. {27:15} If he who
dedicates it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part
of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall be his.
{27:16} "'If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the field of his
possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it:
the sowing of a [3>]homer[<3] of barley shall be valued at fifty
shekels of silver. {27:17} If he dedicates his field from the Year of
Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand. {27:18} But if he
dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to
him the money according to the years that remain to the Year of
Jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from your valuation. {27:19}
If he who dedicated the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add
the fifth part of the money of your valuation to it, and it shall
remain his. {27:20} If he will not redeem the field, or if he has sold
the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more; {27:21}
but the field, when it goes out in the Jubilee, shall be holy to the
LORD, as a field devoted; it shall be owned by the priests.
{27:22} "'If he dedicates to the LORD a field which he has bought,
which is not of the field of his possession, {27:23} then the priest
shall reckon to him the worth of your valuation up to the Year of
Jubilee; and he shall give your valuation on that day, as a holy thing
to the LORD. {27:24} In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to
him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the
land belongs. {27:25} All your valuations shall be according to the
shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs to the shekel.
{27:26} "'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a
firstborn to the LORD, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep,
it is the LORD's. {27:27} If it is an unclean animal, then he shall
buy it back according to your valuation, and shall add to it the fifth
part of it: or if it isn't redeemed, then it shall be sold according
to your valuation.
{27:28} "'Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote
to the LORD of all that he has, whether of man or animal, or of the
field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted
thing is most holy to the LORD.
{27:29} "'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall
be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
{27:30} "'All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land
or of the fruit of the trees, is the LORD's. It is holy to the LORD.
{27:31} If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth
part to it. {27:32} All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever
passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to the LORD. {27:33} He
shall not search whether it is good or bad, neither shall he change
it: and if he changes it at all, then both it and that for which it is
changed shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.'"
{27:34} These are the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses
for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
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Footnotes:
[1] {25:9} or, trumpet
[2] {25:9} or, trumpet
[3] {27:16} 1 homer is about 220 litres or 6 bushels
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