¹ And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying, ² Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you come into the land which I give you, then will the land keep a sabbath to the LORD. ³ Six years you will sow your field, and six years you will prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit of it; ⁴ But in the seventh year will be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: you will neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard. ⁵ That which grows of its own accord of your harvest you will not reap, neither gather the grapes of your vine undressed: for it is a year of rest to the land. ⁶ And the sabbath of the land will be meat for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger that sojourns with you, ⁷ And for your cattle, and for the beast that are in your land, will all the increase of it be meat. ⁸ And you will number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years will be to you forty and nine years. ⁹ Then will you cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement will you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. ¹⁰ And you will holy the fifties year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants of it: it will be a jubile to you; and you will return every man to his possession, and you will return every man to his family. ¹¹ A jubile will that fifties year be to you: you will not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of your vine undressed. ¹² For it is the jubile it will be holy to you: you will eat the increase of it out of the field. ¹³ In the year of this jubile you will return every man to his possession. ¹⁴ And if you sell should to your neighbour, or buyest should of your neighbour's hand, you will not oppress one another ¹⁵ According to the number of years after the jubile you will buy of your neighbour, and according to the number of years of the fruits he will sell to you ¹⁶ According to the multitude of years you will increase the price of it, and according to the fewness of years you will diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits does he sell to you. ¹⁷ You will not therefore oppress one another but you will fear your God: for I am the LORD your God. ¹⁸ why you will do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and you will dwell in the land in safety. ¹⁹ And the land will produce her fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell in it in safety. ²⁰ And if you will say, What will we eat the seventh year? see, we will not sow, nor gather in our increase ²¹ Then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forward fruit for three years. ²² And you will sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in you will eat of the old [store]. ²³ The land will not be sold forever: for the land is mine for you are strangers and sojourners with me. ²⁴ And in all the land of your possession you will grant a redemption for the land. ²⁵ If your brother be growing poor, and has sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then will 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 of it, and restore the overplus to the man to who he sold it; that he may return to his possession. ²⁸ But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold will remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it will go out, and he will return to 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 will be established forever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it will not go out in the jubile. ³¹ But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them will be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they will go out in the jubile. ³² However 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, will 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 your brother be growing poor, and fallen in decay with you; then you will relieve him: yes, even though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with you. ³⁶ Take you no usury of him, or increase: but fear your God; that your brother may live with you. ³⁷ you will not give him your money on usury, nor lend him your victuals for increase. ³⁸ I am the LORD your God, which brought you forward out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. ³⁹ And if your brother that dwells by you be growing poor, and be sold to you; you will not compel him to serve as a bondservant ⁴⁰ But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he will be with you, and will serve you to the year of jubile ⁴¹ And then will he depart from you, both he and his children with him, and will return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers will he return. ⁴² For they are my servants, which I brought forward out of the land of Egypt: they will not be sold as bondmen. ⁴³ you will not rule over him with rigour but will fear your God. ⁴⁴ Both your bondmen, and your bondmaids, which you will have, will be of the heathen that are round about you; of them will you buy bondmen and bondmaids. ⁴⁵ Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them will you buy, and of their families that are with you, which they bore in your land: and they will be your possession. ⁴⁶ And you will take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they will be your bondmen forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel, you will not rule one over another with rigour. ⁴⁷ And if a sojourner or stranger grow rich by you, and your brother that dwells by him grow poor, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner by you, or to the stock of the stranger's family ⁴⁸ After that he is sold he may be redeemed again one of his brothers may redeem him ⁴⁹ Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is near of kin to him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰ And he will reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him to the year of jubile: and the price of his sale will be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant will it be with him. ⁵¹ If there be yet many years behind, according to them he will give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. ⁵² And if there remain but few years to the year of jubile, then he will count with him, and according to his years will he give him again the price of his redemption. ⁵³ And as a yearly hired servant will he be with him: and the other will not rule with rigour over him in your sight. ⁵⁴ And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he will go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him. ⁵⁵ For to me the children of Israel are servants they are my servants who I brought forward out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.