1WHEN the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai he told him
2to say to the Israelites: When you enter the land which I am giving you, the land must keep sabbaths to the LORD.
3For six years you may sow your fields and prune your vineyards and gather the harvest,
4but in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbatical rest, a sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard;
5you are not to harvest the crop that grows from fallen grain, or gather in the grapes from the unpruned vines. It is to be a year of rest for the land.
6Yet what the land itself produces in the sabbath year will be food for you, for your male and female slaves, for your hired man, and for the stranger lodging under your roof,
7for your cattle and for the wild animals in your country. Everything it produces may be used for food.
8You are to count off seven sabbaths of years, that is seven times seven years, forty-nine years,
9and in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement, you are to send the ram's horn throughout your land to sound a blast.
10Hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberation in the land for all its inhabitants. It is to be a jubilee year for you: each of you is to return to his holding, everyone to his family.
11The fiftieth year is to be a jubilee for you: you are not to sow, and you are not to harvest the self-sown crop, or gather in the grapes from the unpruned vines,
12for it is a jubilee, to be kept holy by you. You are to eat the produce direct from the land.
13In this year of jubilee every one of you is to return to his holding.
14When you sell or buy land amongst yourselves, neither party must exploit the other.
15You must pay your fellow-countryman according to the number of years since the jubilee, and he must sell to you according to the remaining number of annual crops.
16The more years there are to run, the higher the price; the fewer the years, the lower, because what he is selling you is a series of crops.
17You must not victimize one another, but fear your God, because I am the LORD your God.
18Observe my statutes, keep my judgements, and carry them out; and you will live without any fear in the land.
19The land will yield its harvest; you will eat your fill and live there secure.
20If you ask what you are to eat during the seventh year, seeing that you will neither sow nor gather the harvest,
21I shall ordain my blessing for you in the sixth year and the land will produce a crop sufficient for three years.
22When you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the earlier crop; you will eat the old until the new crop is gathered in the ninth year.
23No land may be sold outright, because the land is mine, and you come to it as aliens and tenants of mine.
24Throughout the whole land you hold, you must allow a right of redemption over land which has been sold.
25If one of you is reduced to poverty and sells part of his holding, his next-of-kin who has the duty of redemption may come and redeem what his kinsman has sold.
26When a man has no such next-of-kin and himself becomes able to afford its redemption,
27he must take into account the years since the sale and repay the purchaser the balance up to the jubilee. Then he may return to his holding.
28But if the man cannot afford to buy back the property, it remains in the hands of the purchaser till the jubilee year. It then reverts to the original owner, and he can return to his holding.
29When a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled town, he must retain the right of redemption till a full year has elapsed after the sale; for that time he has the right of redemption.
30If it is not redeemed before a full year is out, the house in the walled town will belong for ever to the buyer and his descendants; it does not revert to its former owner at the jubilee.
31But houses in unwalled hamlets are to be treated as property in the open country: the right of redemption will hold good, and in any case the house reverts at the jubilee.
32Levites are to have the perpetual right to redeem houses which they hold in towns belonging to them.
33If one of the Levites does not redeem his house in such a town, then it will still revert to him at the jubilee, because the houses in Levite towns are their holding in Israel.
34The common land surrounding their towns cannot be sold, because it is their property in perpetuity.
35If your brother-Israelite is reduced to poverty and cannot support himself in the community, you must assist him as you would an alien or a stranger, and he will live with you.
36You must not charge him interest on a loan, either by deducting it in advance from the capital sum, or by adding it on repayment. Fear your God, and let your brother live with you;
37do not deduct interest when advancing him money, or add interest to the payment due for food supplied on credit.
38I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt to give you Canaan and to become your God.
39If your fellow-countryman is reduced to poverty and sells himself to you, you must not use him to work for you as a slave.
40His status will be that of a hired man or a stranger lodging with you; he will work for you only until the jubilee year.
41He will then leave your service, with his children, and go back to his family and to his ancestral property:
42because they are my slaves whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves are sold.
43You must not work him ruthlessly, but you are to fear your God.
44Such slaves as you have, male or female, should come from the nations round about you; from them you may buy slaves.
45You may also buy the children of those who have settled and lodge with you and such of their family as are born in your land. These may become your property,
46and you may leave them to your sons after you; you may use them as slaves permanently. But your fellow-Israelites you must not work ruthlessly.
47If an alien or a stranger living among you becomes rich, and one of your fellow-countrymen becomes poor and sells himself to the alien or stranger or to a member of some alien family,
48he is to keep the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him,
49or his uncle, his cousin, or any blood relation of his family, or, if he has the means, he may redeem himself.
50He and his purchaser together must reckon from the year when he sold himself to the year of jubilee, and the price will be adjusted to the number of years. His period of service with his owner will be reckoned at the rate of a hired man.
51If there are still many years to run to the year of jubilee, he must pay for his redemption a proportionate amount of the sum for which he sold himself;
52if there are only a few, he is to reckon and repay accordingly.
53He will have the status of a labourer hired from year to year, and you must not let him be worked ruthlessly by his owner.
54If the man is not redeemed in the intervening years, he and his children must be released in the year of jubilee;
55for it is to me that the Israelites are slaves, my slaves whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
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