1Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount…
2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them:…
3For six years you may sow your field…
4But in the seventh year there shall be…
5You are not to reap the aftergrowth of…
6Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year…
7and for your livestock and the wild animals…
8And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of…
9Then you are to sound the horn far…
10So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year…
11The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for…
12For it is a Jubilee; it shall be…
13In this Year of Jubilee, each of you…
14If you make a sale to your neighbor…
15You are to buy from your neighbor according…
16You shall increase the price in proportion to…
17Do not take advantage of each other, but…
18You are to keep My statutes and carefully…
19Then the land will yield its fruit, so…
20Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat…
21But I will send My blessing upon you…
22While you are sowing in the eighth year,…
23The land must not be sold permanently, because…
24Thus for every piece of property you possess,…
25If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some…
26Or if a man has no one to…
27he shall calculate the years since its sale,…
28But if he cannot obtain enough to repay…
29If a man sells a house in a…
30If it is not redeemed by the end…
31But houses in villages with no walls around…
32As for the cities of the Levites, the…
33So whatever belongs to the Levites may be…
34But the open pastureland around their cities may…
35Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot…
36Do not take any interest or profit from…
37You must not lend him your silver at…
38I am the LORD your God, who brought…
39If a countryman among you becomes destitute and…
40Let him stay with you as a hired…
41Then he and his children are to be…
42Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I…
43You are not to rule over them harshly,…
44Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the…
45You may also purchase them from the foreigners…
46You may leave them to your sons after…
47If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but…
48he retains the right of redemption after he…
49either his uncle or cousin or any close…
50He and his purchaser will then count the…
51If many years remain, he must pay for…
52If only a few years remain until the…
53He shall be treated like a man hired…
54Even if he is not redeemed in any…
55For the Israelites are My servants. They are…
