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1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, say­ing, 2 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. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vine­yard, and gath­er in the fruit there­of; 4 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. 5 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. 6 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, 7 And for thy cat­tle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the in­crease there­of be meat. 8 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. 9 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. 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.