Leviticus
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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 neighbours 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 strangers 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 uncles
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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