25:1 The LORD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai saying: 25:2 “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land which I am giving to you, the land must observe a sabbath¹ to the LORD. 25:3 Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,² 25:4 but in the seventh year the land must have a sabbath of complete rest;³ a sabbath to the LORD. You must not sow your field or⁴ prune your vineyard. 25:5 You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned⁵ vines; the land must have a year of complete rest. 25:6 You may have the sabbath produce⁶ of the land to eat—you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, your foreign resident who sojourns with you,⁷ 25:7 your cattle, and the wild animal which is in your land—all its produce will be for you⁸ to eat.

25:8 “‘You must count off⁹ seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years,¹⁰ and the days of the seven sabbaths of years will amount to forty-nine years.¹¹ 25:9 You must sound loud horn blasts¹²—in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the day of atonement—you must sound the horn in your whole land. 25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year,¹³ and you must proclaim a release¹⁴ in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee;¹⁵ each one of you must return¹⁶ to his property and each one of you must return to his clan. 25:11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.¹⁷ 25:12 Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you—you may eat its produce¹⁸ from the field.

25:13 “‘In this year of jubilee you must each return¹⁹ to your property. 25:14 If you make a sale²⁰ to your fellow citizen²¹ or buy²² from your fellow citizen, no one is to oppress his brother.²³ 25:15 You may buy it from your fellow citizen in accordance with the number of years since²⁴ the last jubilee; he may sell it to you in accordance with the years of produce that are left.²⁵ 25:16 The more years there are,²⁶ you may increase its purchase price, and the less years there are,²⁷ you must reduce its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of²⁸ produce. 25:17 No one is to oppress his fellow citizen,²⁹ but you must fear your God because I am the LORD your God. 25:18 You must do my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to do them³⁰ so that you may live securely in the land.³¹

25:19 “‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat to satisfaction, and you may live securely in the land. 25:20 If you should say, ‘what will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’ 25:21 I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield³² the produce³³ for three years, 25:22 and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year produce;³⁴ old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year produce,³⁵ you may eat old produce. 25:23 The land must not be sold without reclaim³⁶ because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.³⁷ 25:24 In all your landed property³⁸ you shall provide for right of redemption of the land.³⁹

25:25 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold.⁴⁰ 25:26 If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers⁴¹ and gains enough for its redemption,⁴² 25:27 he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold,⁴³ refund the balance⁴⁴ to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property. 25:28 If he has not prospered enough to refund⁴⁵ a balance to him, then what he sold⁴⁶ will be in the hand of the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert⁴⁷ in the jubilee and he may return to his property.

25:29 “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city,⁴⁸ its right of redemption must extend⁴⁹ until one complete year from its sale;⁵⁰ its right of redemption must extend to a year of days.⁵¹ 25:30 If it is not redeemed before the complete year is fulfilled,⁵² the house which is in the walled city⁵³ will belong without reclaim⁵⁴ to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee. 25:31 The houses of villages, however,⁵⁵ which have no wall surrounding them⁵⁶ must be considered as the field⁵⁷ of the land; it will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee. 25:32 As for⁵⁸ the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities which they possess⁵⁹—the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption. 25:33 Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem—the sale of a house which is his property in a city—must revert in the jubilee,⁶⁰ because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the children of Israel. 25:34 Moreover,⁶¹ the open field areas of their cities⁶² must not be sold because it is their perpetual possession.

25:35 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you,⁶³ you must strengthen him; he must live⁶⁴ with you like a foreign resident.⁶⁵ 25:36 Do not take interest or profit from him,⁶⁶ but you must fear your God and your brother must live⁶⁷ with you. 25:37 You must not give him money at interest and you must not give him food for profit.⁶⁸ 25:38 I am the LORD your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan—to be your God.⁶⁹

25:39 “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.⁷⁰ 25:40 He must be with you as a hired worker, as a foreign resident;⁷¹ he must serve with you until the year of jubilee, 25:41 but then⁷² he may go out from you, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and may return to the property of his forefathers. 25:42 Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.⁷³ 25:43 You must not rule over him harshly,⁷⁴ but you must fear your God.

25:44 “‘As for your male and female slaves⁷⁵ who may belong to you—you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.⁷⁶ 25:45 Also from the children of the foreigners who sojourn with you, from them you may buy slaves;⁷⁷ and from their families which are⁷⁸ with you, whom they have begotten in your land, they may become your property. 25:46 You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually, but your brothers, the children of Israel, no man may rule over his brother harshly.⁷⁹

25:47 “‘If a foreign resident who is with you prospers⁸⁰ and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that⁸¹ he sells himself to a foreign resident who is with you or to a member⁸² of a foreigner’s family, 25:48 after he has sold himself he retains a right or redemption.⁸³ One of his brothers may redeem him, 25:49 or his uncle or his cousin⁸⁴ may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives, his family,⁸⁵ may redeem him, or if⁸⁶ he prospers he may redeem himself. 25:50 He must calculate with the one who bought him number of years⁸⁷ from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.⁸⁸ 25:51 If there are still many years, in accordance with them⁸⁹ he must refund part of the cost of his purchase for his redemption, 25:52 but if only a few years remain⁹⁰ until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself according to his years and refund it for his redemption. 25:53 He must be with the one who bought him⁹¹ like a yearly hired worker.⁹² The one who bought him⁹³ must not rule over him harshly in your sight. 25:54 If, however,⁹⁴ he is not redeemed in these ways, he may go out in the jubilee year, he and his children with him, 25:55 because the children of Israel are my own servants;⁹⁵ they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.