Leviticus 25

vayedabber Adonai el-mosheh behar sinay lemor

GOD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:

dabber el-bene yisra'el ve'amarta alehem ki tavo'u el-ha'arets asher ani noten lakhem veshavetah ha'arets shabbat la-Adonai

Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of GOD.

shesh shanim tizra sadekha veshesh shanim tizmor karmekha ve'asafta et-tevu'atah

Six years you may sow your field and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather in the yield.

uvashanah hashevi'it shabbat shabbaton yihyeh la'arets shabbat la-Adonai sadekha lo tizra vekharmekha lo tizmor

But in the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath of complete rest, a sabbath of GOD: you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

et sefiakh qetsirekha lo tiqtsor ve'et-inneve nezirekha lo tivtsor shenat shabbaton yihyeh la'arets

You shall not reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untrimmed vines; it shall be a year of complete rest for the land.

vehayetah shabbat ha'arets lakhem le'okhlah lekha ule'avdekha vela'amatekha veliskhirekha uletoshavekha haggarim immakh

But you may eat whatever the land during its sabbath will produce—you, your male and female slaves, the hired and bound laborers who live with you,

velivhemtekha velakhayyah asher be'artsekha tihyeh khol-tevu'atah le'ekhol

and your cattle and the beasts in your land may eat all its yield.

vesafarta lekha sheva shabbetot shanim sheva shanim sheva pe'amim vehayu lekha yeme sheva shabbetot hashanim tesha ve'arba'im shanah

You shall count off seven weeks of years—seven times seven years—so that the period of seven weeks of years gives you a total of forty-nine years.

veha'avarta shofar teru'ah bakhodesh hashevi'i be'asor lakhodesh beyom hakkippurim ta'aviru shofar bekhol-artsekhem

Then you shall sound the horn loud; in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month—the Day of Atonement—you shall have the horn sounded throughout your land

veqiddashtem et shenat hakhamishim shanah uqeratem deror ba'arets lekhol-yosheveha yovel hiv tihyeh lakhem veshavtem ish el-akhuzzato ve'ish el-mishpakhto tashuvu

and you shall hallow the fiftieth year. You shall proclaim release throughout the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you: each of you shall return to your holding and each of you shall return to your family.

yovel hiv shenat hakhamishim shanah tihyeh lakhem lo tizra'u velo tiqtseru et-sefikheha velo tivtseru et-nezireha

That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you: you shall not sow, neither shall you reap the aftergrowth or harvest the untrimmed vines,

ki yovel hiv qodesh tihyeh lakhem min-hassadeh tokhelu et-tevu'atah

for it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you: you may only eat the growth direct from the field.

bishnat hayyovel hazzot tashuvu ish el-akhuzzato

In this year of jubilee, each of you shall return to your holding.

vekhi-timkeru mimkar la'amitekha o qanoh miyyad amitekha al-tonu ish et-akhiv

When you sell property to your neighbor, or buy any from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

bemispar shanim akhar hayyovel tiqneh me'et amitekha bemispar shene-tevu'ot yimkor-lakh

In buying from your neighbor, you shall deduct only for the number of years since the jubilee; and in selling to you, you shall be charged only for the remaining crop years:

lefi rov hashanim tarbeh miqnato ulefi me'ot hashanim tamit miqnato ki mispar tevu'ot hu mokher lakh

the more such years, the higher the price you pay; the fewer such years, the lower the price; for what is being sold to you is a number of harvests.

velo tonu ish et-amito veyareta me'elohekha ki ani Adonai elohekhem

Do not wrong one another, but fear your God; for I the ETERNAL am your God.

va'asitem et-khuqqotay ve'et-mishpatay tishmeru va'asitem otam vishavtem al-ha'arets lavetakh

You shall observe My laws and faithfully keep My rules, that you may live upon the land in security;

venatenah ha'arets piryah va'akhaltem lasova vishavtem lavetakh aleha

the land shall yield its fruit and you shall eat your fill, and you shall live upon it in security.

vekhi tomeru mah-nnokhal bashanah hashevi'it hen lo nizra velo ne'esof et-tevu'atenu

And should you ask, “What are we to eat in the seventh year, if we may neither sow nor gather in our crops?”

vetsivviti et-birkhati lakhem bashanah hashishit ve'asat et-hattevu'ah lishlosh hashanim

I will ordain My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it shall yield a crop sufficient for three years.

uzeratem et hashanah hasheminit va'akhaltem min-hattevu'ah yashan ad hashanah hatteshi'it ad-bo tevu'atah tokhelu yashan

When you sow in the eighth year, you will still be eating old grain of that crop; you will be eating the old until the ninth year, until its crops come in.

veha'arets lo timmakher litsmitut ki-li ha'arets ki-gerim vetoshavim attem immadi

But the land must not be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine; you are but strangers resident with Me.

uvekhol erets akhuzzatkhem ge'ullah tittenu la'arets

Throughout the land that you hold, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

ki-yamukh akhikha umakhar me'akhuzzato uva go'alo haqqarov elayw vega'al et mimkar akhiv

If one of your kin is in straits and has to sell part of a holding, the nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what that relative has sold.

ve'ish ki lo yihyeh-llo go'el vehissigah yado umatsa kede ge'ullato

Regarding anyone who has no one to be redeemer but prospers and acquires enough to redeem with:

vekhishav et-shene mimkaro veheshiv et-ha'odef la'ish asher makhar-lo veshav la'akhuzzato

the years since its sale shall be computed and the difference shall be refunded to the party to whom it was sold, so that [the seller] returns to their holding.

ve'im lo-matse'ah yado de hashiv lo vehayah mimkaro beyad haqqoneh oto ad shenat hayyovel veyatsa bayyovel veshav la'akhuzzato

If [the seller] lacks sufficient means to recover it, what was sold shall remain with the purchaser until the jubilee; in the jubilee year it shall be released, so that they return to their holding.

ve'ish ki-yimkor bet-moshav ir khomah vehayetah ge'ullato ad-tom shenat mimkaro yamim tihyeh ge'ullato

Regarding anyone who sells a dwelling house in a walled city: It may be redeemed until a year has elapsed since its sale; the redemption period shall be a year.

ve'im lo-yigga'el ad-melot lo shanah temimah veqam habbayit asher-ba'ir asher-[lo] (l) khomah latsemitut laqqoneh oto ledorotayw lo yetse bayyovel

If it is not redeemed before a full year has elapsed, the house in the walled city shall pass to the purchaser beyond reclaim throughout the ages; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

uvatte hakhatserim asher en-lahem khomah saviv al-sedeh ha'arets yekhashev ge'ullah tihyeh-llo uvayyovel yetse

But houses in villages that have no encircling walls shall be classed as open country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released through the jubilee.

ve'are haleviyyim batte are akhuzzatam ge'ullat olam tihyeh lalviyyim

As for the cities of Levi, the houses in the cities it holds: Levi shall forever have the right of redemption.

va'asher yigal min-haleviyyim veyatsa mimkar-bayit ve'ir akhuzzato bayyovel ki vatte are haleviyyim hiv akhuzzatam betokh bene yisra'el

Such property as may be redeemed from Levi—houses sold in a city it holds—shall be released through the jubilee; for the houses in the cities of Levi are its holding among the Israelites.

usedeh migrash arehem lo yimmakher ki-akhuzzat olam hu lahem

But the unenclosed land about its cities cannot be sold, for that is its holding for all time.

vekhi-yamukh akhikha umatah yado immakh vehekhezaqta bo ger vetoshav vakhay immakh

If your kin, being in straits, come under your authority, and are held by you as though resident aliens, let them live by your side:

al-tiqqakh me'itto neshekh vetarbit veyareta me'elohekha vekhe akhikha immakh

do not exact advance or accrued interest, but fear your God. Let your kin live by your side as such.

et-kaspekha lo-titten lo beneshekh uvemarbit lo-titten okhlekha

Do not lend your money at advance interest, nor give your food at accrued interest.

ani Adonai elohekhem asher-hotseti etkhem me'erets mitsrayim latet lakhem et-erets kena'an lihyot lakhem lelohim

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

vekhi-yamukh akhikha immakh venimkar-lakh lo-ta'avod bo avodat aved

If your kin under you continue in straits and must be given over to you, do not subject them to the treatment of a slave.

kesakhir ketoshav yihyeh immakh ad-shenat hayyovel ya'avod immakh

Remaining with you as a hired or bound laborer, they shall serve with you only until the jubilee year.

veyatsa me'immakh hu uvanayw immo veshav el-mishpakhto ve'el-akhuzzat avotayw yashuv

Then they, along with any children, shall be free of your authority; they shall go back to their family and return to the ancestral holding.—

ki-avaday hem asher-hotseti otam me'erets mitsrayim lo yimmakheru mimkeret aved

For they are My servants, whom I freed from the land of Egypt; they may not give themselves over into servitude.—

lo-tirdeh vo befarekh veyareta me'elohekha

You shall not rule over them ruthlessly; you shall fear your God.

ve'avdekha va'amatekha asher yihyu-lakh me'et haggoyim asher sevivotekhem mehem tiqnu eved ve'amah

Such male and female slaves as you may have—it is from the nations round about you that you may acquire male and female slaves.

vegam mibbene hattoshavim haggarim immakhem mehem tiqnu umimmishpakhtam asher immakhem asher holidu be'artsekhem vehayu lakhem la'akhuzzah

You may also buy them from among the children of the resident aliens among you, or from their families that are among you, whom they begot in your land. These shall become your property:

vehitnakhaltem otam livnekhem akharekhem lareshet akhuzzah le'olam bahem ta'avodu uve'akhekhem bene-yisra'el ish be'akhiv lo-tirdeh vo befarekh

you may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property for all time. Such you may treat as slaves. But as for your Israelite kin, no one shall rule ruthlessly over another.

vekhi tassig yad ger vetoshav immakh umakh akhikha immo venimkar leger toshav immakh o le'eqer mishpakhat ger

If a resident alien among you has prospered, and your kin, being in straits, comes under that one’s authority and is given over to the resident alien among you, or to an offshoot of an alien’s family,

akhare nimkar ge'ullah tihyeh-llo ekhad me'ekhayw yigalennu

[your kin] shall have the right of redemption even afterward. [Typically,] a brother shall do the redeeming,

o-dodo o ven-dodo yigalennu o-mishe'er besaro mimmishpakhto yigalennu o-hissigah yado venigal

or an uncle or an uncle’s son shall do the redeeming—anyone in the family who is of the same flesh shall do the redeeming; or, having prospered, [your formerly impoverished kin] may do the redeeming.

vekhishav im-qonehu mishenat himmakhero lo ad shenat hayyovel vehayah kesef mimkaro bemispar shanim kime sakhir yihyeh immo

The total shall be computed with the purchaser as from the year of being given over to the other until the jubilee year; the price of sale shall be applied to the number of years, as though it were for a term as a hired laborer under the other’s authority.

im-od rabbot bashanim lefihen yashiv ge'ullato mikkesef miqnato

If many years remain, [your kin] shall pay back for the redemption in proportion to the purchase price;

ve'im-me'at nishar bashanim ad-shenat hayyovel vekhishav-lo kefi shanayw yashiv et-ge'ullato

and if few years remain until the jubilee year, so shall it be computed: payment shall be made for the redemption according to the years involved.

kiskhir shanah beshanah yihyeh immo lo-yirdennu beferekh le'enekha

One shall be under the other’s authority as a laborer hired by the year; the other shall not rule ruthlessly in your sight.

ve'im-lo yigga'el be'elleh veyatsa bishnat hayyovel hu uvanayw immo

If not redeemed in any of those ways, [your kin], along with any children, shall go free in the jubilee year.

ki-li vene-yisra'el avadim avaday hem asher-hotseti otam me'erets mitsrayim ani Adonai elohekhem

For it is to Me that the Israelites are servants: they are My servants, whom I freed from the land of Egypt—I, the ETERNAL, your God.