¹The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai ,

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 .

³You shall sow your field six years , and you shall prune your vineyard six years , and gather in its fruits ;

⁴but 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 .

⁵What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap , and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

⁶The 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 .

⁷For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

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 .

⁹Then you shall sound the loud shofar on the tenth day of the seventh month . On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the shofar throughout all your land.

¹⁰You 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 .

¹¹That 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 .

¹²For it is a jubilee ; it shall be holy to you . You shall eat of its increase out of the field .

¹³“‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

¹⁴“‘If you sell anything to your neighbour , or buy from your neighbour , you shall not wrong one another .

¹⁵According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbour . According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you .

¹⁶According 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 .

¹⁷You shall not wrong one another , but you shall fear your God ; for I am the LORD your God .

¹⁸“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes , and keep my ordinances and do them ; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.

¹⁹The land shall yield its fruit , and you shall eat your fill , and dwell therein in safety.

²⁰If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year ? Behold , we shall not sow , nor gather in our increase ;”

²¹then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year , and it shall bear fruit for the three years .

²²You shall sow the eighth year , and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year . Until its fruits come in , you shall eat the old store.

²³“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine ; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me .

²⁴In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.

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 .

²⁶If a man has no one to redeem it , and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it ,

²⁷then 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.

²⁸But 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 . In the Jubilee it shall be released , and he shall return to his property .

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 .

³⁰If 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 .

³¹But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country : they may be redeemed , and they shall be released in the Jubilee .

³²“‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites , the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time .

³³The 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 amongst the children of Israel .

³⁴But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold , for it is their perpetual possession.

³⁵“‘If your brother has become poor , and his hand can’t support himself amongst you , then you shall uphold him . He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident .

³⁶Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live amongst you .

³⁷You shall not lend him your money at interest , nor give him your food for profit.

³⁸I am the LORD your God , who brought you out of the land of Egypt , to give you the land of Canaan , and to be your God .

³⁹“‘If your brother has grown poor amongst you , and sells himself to you , you shall not make him to serve as a slave .

⁴⁰As a hired servant , and as a temporary resident , he shall be with you ; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee .

⁴¹Then 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.

⁴²For they are my servants , whom I brought out of the land of Egypt . They shall not be sold as slaves .

⁴³You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God .

⁴⁴“‘As for your male and your female slaves , whom you may have from the nations that are around you , from them you may buy male and female slaves .

⁴⁵Moreover , of the children of the aliens who live amongst 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.

⁴⁶You may make them an inheritance for your children after you , to hold for a possession . Of them you may take your slaves forever , but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule , one over another , with harshness.

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 amongst you , or to a member of the stranger ’s family ,

⁴⁸after he is sold he may be redeemed . One of his brothers may redeem him ;

⁴⁹or 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 .

⁵⁰He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee . The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years ; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant .

⁵¹If 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 .

⁵²If 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 .

⁵³As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him . He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight .

⁵⁴If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee : he and his children with him .

⁵⁵For 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 .