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1.    And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
 
2.    Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When  ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall  celebrate a sabbath to Jehovah.
 
3.    Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt  thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof,
 
4.    but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest for the  land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field shalt thou not sow, and  thy vineyard shalt thou not prune.
 
5.    That which springeth up from the scattered seed of thy  harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed  vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the  land.
 
6.    And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for  thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy  hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with  thee, and for thy cattle,
 
7.    and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce  thereof shall be for food.
 
8.    And thou shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times  seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be  unto thee forty-nine years.
 
9.    Then shalt thou cause the loud sound of the trumpet to go  forth in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the  day of atonement shall ye cause the trumpet to go forth  throughout your land.
 
10.    And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and  proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof;  a year of jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return  every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man  unto his family;
 
11.    a year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye  shall not sow, neither reap its aftergrowth, nor gather the  fruit of its undressed vines.
 
12.    For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of  the field shall ye eat its produce.
 
13.    In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto  his possession.
 
14.    And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your  neighbour`s hand, ye shall not overreach one another.
 
15.    According to the number of years since the jubilee, thou  shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of  the produce, he shall sell unto thee.
 
16.    According to the greater number of the years, thou shalt  increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of  years, thou shalt diminish the price of it; for it is the  number of crops that he selleth unto thee.
 
17.    And ye shall not oppress one another; but thou shalt fear  thy God; for I am Jehovah your God.
 
18.    And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances  and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely.
 
19.    And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat and  be satisfied, and dwell therein securely.
 
20.    And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year?  behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;
 
21.    then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth  year, that it may bring forth produce for three years;
 
22.    and ye shall sow in the eighth year, and ye shall eat of  the old fruit until the ninth year; until her produce come in,  ye shall eat the old.
 
23.    And 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 grow poor, and sell of his possession, then  shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that  which his brother sold.
 
26.    And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and  his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its  redemption,
 
27.    then shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and  restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so  return unto his possession.
 
28.    And if his hand have not found what sufficeth for him to  restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the  hand of the purchaser, until the year of jubilee; and in the  jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his  possession.
 
29.    And if any one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city,  then he shall have the right of redemption up to the end of the  year of the sale thereof; for a full year shall he have the  right of redemption.
 
30.    But if it be not redeemed until a whole year is complete,  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 jubilee.
 
31.    But the houses in villages that have no wall round about  them shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they may  be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.
 
32.    But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the  cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual  right of redemption.
 
33.    And if any one redeem from one of the Levites, then the  house that was sold, in the city of his possession, shall go  out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites  are their possession among the children of Israel.
 
34.    And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be  sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
 
35.    And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay  beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, be he stranger or  sojourner, that he may live beside thee.
 
36.    Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou  shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.
 
37.    Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him  thy victuals for increase.
 
38.    I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the  land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
 
39.    And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto  thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
 
40.    as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee;  until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee.
 
41.    Then shall he depart from thee, 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 bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the  land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as men sell bondmen.
 
43.    Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt  fear thy God.
 
44.    And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt  have -- of the nations that are round about you, of them shall  ye buy bondmen and handmaids.
 
45.    Moreover of the children of them that dwell as sojourners  with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with  you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your  possession.
 
46.    And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children  after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make  your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children  of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour.
 
47.    And if a stranger or sojourner become wealthy beside thee,  and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the  stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion of the  stranger`s family,
 
48.    after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption  for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.
 
49.    Either his uncle or his uncle`s son may redeem him, or one  of his next relations of his family may redeem him; or if his  means be sufficient, 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 jubilee; and the price  of his sale shall be according to the number of the years,  according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.
 
51.    If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he  return his redemption money out of the money that he was  bought for;
 
52.    and if there remain but few years unto the year of  jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his  remaining years of service shall he give him back his  redemption money.
 
53.    As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; his  master shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes.
 
54.    And if he be not redeemed in this manner, then he shall go  out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
 
55.    For the children of Israel are servants unto me; they are  my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am  Jehovah your God.