¹And the Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai and said, ²“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you go to the land which I am giving you, the land will rest for a Sabbath for the Lord. ³For six years you will sow your field, and for six years you will prune your vineyard and gather its produce, ⁴but in the seventh year, it will be a Sabbath of sabbatic observance for the land – the Lord's Sabbath. You shall not sow your field, and you will not prune your vines. ⁵You shall not reap the produce of spilt grain of your harvest, and you will not harvest the grapes of your unpruned vine. It will be a year of sabbatical observance for the land. ⁶And the Sabbath of the land will be the means of food for you – for you and for your servant and for your maidservant and for your hired servant and for your lodger who dwell with you. ⁷Also your cattle and the animals in your land will have all its produce to eat. ⁸And you will count yourself seven Sabbaths of years – seven years seven times over – and you will have the days of seven Sabbaths of years: forty-nine years. ⁹Then you will make proclamation with a ramshorn as a rallying sound in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month on the day of atonement. You will make a proclamation with a ramshorn in all your land. ¹⁰And you will sanctify the fiftieth year, and you will proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, and every man among you will return to his possession, and every man among you will return to his family. ¹¹It is Jubilee; it will be in the fiftieth year for you. You will not sow, you will not reap the produce of spilt grain in it, nor will you harvest the unpruned vines in it. ¹²For it is Jubilee. It will be holy to you; in it you will eat from the produce of the field. ¹³In this Jubilee year, every man among you will return to his possession. ¹⁴And if you sell an item to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, let no man extort his brother. ¹⁵You will buy from your fellow citizen at a value in inverse proportion to the number of years after Jubilee; he will sell to you at a value in direct proportion to the number of years of income to run. ¹⁶The more the number of years, the more you may increase its price, and the less the number of years, the more you will reduce its price, for he will sell it to you according to the number of years of income to run. ¹⁷And no-one may extort his fellow citizen, and you will fear your God, for I am the Lord your God. ¹⁸And you will observe my statutes, and you will keep my regulations and carry them out, and you will dwell in the land in safety. ¹⁹And the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and you will dwell in safety in it. ²⁰And when you say, «What will we eat in the seventh year, seeing we won't be sowing, and we won't be reaping our produce?» ²¹I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, and it will produce the produce of three years. ²²And you will sow in the eighth year and eat from the old produce, until the ninth year – until its produce comes. You will eat old stored produce. ²³And the land will never be sold, for the land is mine, for you are foreigners and lodgers with me. ²⁴And in all the land of your possession, you will exercise redemption of the land. ²⁵If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his possession, and his kinsman redeemer comes to him, then he can redeem the thing sold by his brother. ²⁶And if a man does not have a redeemer, but he can afford it, and he finds enough money for the redemption, ²⁷then he will calculate the years of the item he has sold, and he will return the outstanding value to the man to whom he sold it, and it will return to his possession. ²⁸And if he cannot afford sufficient to have it returned to himself, then his item sold will be in the possession of him who bought it until the Jubilee year, then it will expire in the Jubilee and it will return to his possession. ²⁹And if a man sells a residential house in a walled city, then the right of redemption of it will be for a complete year from its sale. The right of redemption of it will be for those days. ³⁰But if it is not redeemed within the elapsing of a complete year, then the house in the walled city will be established indeterminately for him who bought it, for his generations. It will not expire in the Jubilee. ³¹But houses in villages which do not have a surrounding wall will be considered as the fields of the land: such will be subject to redemption and will expire in the Jubilee. ³²But as for the cities of the Levites – the houses of the cities in their possession – the Levites have an age-abiding right of redemption. ³³And whoever of the Levites makes a redemptive claim on anything, then the sale of the house will expire, as will the city in his possession, in the Jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. ³⁴And the pasture fields of their cities will not be sold, for they are their age-abiding possession. ³⁵And if your brother becomes poor, and loses his wealth, being of your community, then you will support him: foreigner or lodger, he will live with you. ³⁶Do not take interest or profit from him, and fear your God, and your brother will live among you. ³⁷Do not lend him money at interest, nor give food for a profit. ³⁸I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. ³⁹And if your brother among you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, you shall not make him do the work of a servant. ⁴⁰He will be as a hired worker or as a lodger with you. He will work for you until the Jubilee year. ⁴¹Then he will go out from you, he and his sons with him, and he will return to his family, and he will return to the possession of his fathers. ⁴²For they are my servants, whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. They will not be sold as a servant is sold. ⁴³You shall not rule over him with rigour, and you will fear your God. ⁴⁴As for your manservant and your maidservant who will be yours, from the Gentiles who are around you, from them you may buy a manservant or a maidservant, ⁴⁵and also from the sons of the lodgers who live with you. From them you can buy servants, and from their families which are with you, whom they beget in your land, and they will be your property. ⁴⁶And you will receive them as an inheritance, for your sons after you, to inherit them as a possession. You will put them to work age-abidingly, but as for your brothers, the sons of Israel – a man in relation to his brother – you will not rule over him with rigour. ⁴⁷And if a foreigner – a temporary resident with you – becomes wealthy, and your brother alongside him becomes poor, and he sells himself to the foreigner, a temporary resident alongside you, or to the household of a foreign family, ⁴⁸after he has sold himself, he will have a right of redemption: one of his brothers may redeem him. ⁴⁹Alternatively his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of his kin in blood relation to him from his family may redeem him, or if he can afford it, he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰And he will calculate with him who bought him, from the year when he was sold to him to the year of the Jubilee, and the price of him being sold shall be according to the number of years. It will be with him as the number of days of a hired servant. ⁵¹If there are still many years to run, he will repay according to them for his redemption a large part of the sum for which he was bought. ⁵²But if there remain few years until the year of the Jubilee, then he will calculate for himself; he will repay for his redemption according to his years to run. ⁵³He will be with him as a hired servant from year to year. He will not rule over him with rigour in your sight. ⁵⁴And if he is not redeemed by these means, he will go out in the Jubilee year – he and his sons with him. ⁵⁵For the sons of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants, whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.