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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}