Leviticus 25:8-27

New King James Version

The Year of Jubilee

⁸ ‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. ⁹ Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; ^(A)on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. ¹⁰ And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and ^(B)proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; ^(C)and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. ¹¹ That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it ^(D)you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. ¹² For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; ^(E)you shall eat its produce from the field.

^13 (F)‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. ¹⁴ And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not ^(G)oppress one another. ^15 (H)According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. ¹⁶ According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops. ¹⁷ Therefore ^(I)you shall not ^[a]oppress one another, ^(J)but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

Provisions for the Seventh Year

^18 (K)‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; ^(L)and you will dwell in the land in safety. ¹⁹ Then the land will yield its fruit, and ^(M)you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.

²⁰ ‘And if you say, ^(N)“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since ^(O)we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?” ²¹ Then I will ^(P)command My blessing on you in the ^(Q)sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. ^22 (R)And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat ^(S)old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.

Redemption of Property

²³ ‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for ^(T)the land is Mine; for you are ^(U)strangers and sojourners with Me. ²⁴ And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.

^25 (V)‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if ^(W)his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. ²⁶ Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, ²⁷ then ^(X)let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession.