利未记 25

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

安息年的条例

25 耶和华在西奈山上对摩西说： ²“你把以下条例告诉以色列人。

“你们到了我将要赐给你们的土地后，要让土地每七年在耶和华面前休耕一年。 ³六年之内，你们可以耕种田地，修整葡萄园，收获出产。 ⁴但第七年是安息年，土地要休息，以尊崇耶和华。你们不可耕种，不可修整葡萄园。 ⁵不可收割自生自长的庄稼，也不可摘未经修剪而结的葡萄。这一年土地要休耕。 ⁶但安息年间土地里自生自长的，你们和你们的仆婢、雇工与住在你们中间的外族人都可以吃， ⁷你们的牲畜和境内的野兽也可以吃。

禧年的条例

⁸“你们要计算七个安息年，即七个七年，共四十九年。 ⁹第五十年的七月十日赎罪日那天，你们要在境内各地吹号。 ¹⁰你们要以这年为圣年，向境内所有居民宣告自由。这年将成为你们的禧年。各人要得回卖掉的祖业，卖身为奴的可以自由回家。 ¹¹第五十年是你们的禧年。这一年你们不可耕种，不可收割自生自长的庄稼，也不可摘未经修剪而结的葡萄。 ¹²这是禧年，是你们的圣年，你们可以吃土地里自生自长的。 ¹³在禧年，各人要得回卖掉的地业。 ¹⁴因此，你们和同胞买卖田地时，不可彼此亏负。 ¹⁵买卖双方要按照距下个禧年的年数多少定价。 ¹⁶距下个禧年的年数多，价钱就高；年数少，价钱就低。因为卖的是田地收成的次数。 ¹⁷要敬畏你们的上帝，不可彼此亏负。我是你们的上帝耶和华。 ¹⁸你们要遵行我的律例，持守我的典章，就可以在那片土地上安居。 ¹⁹土地会出产丰富，使你们丰衣足食、安然居住。 ²⁰你们可能会问，‘第七年不种不收，我们吃什么？’ ²¹我要在第六年赐福给你们，使田地的出产够你们吃三年。 ²²第八年开始耕种时，你们仍会吃陈粮，一直吃到第九年的收割季节。

赎回土地的条例

²³“你们不可永远卖掉土地，因为土地是我的，你们只不过是寄居在那片土地上的过客。 ²⁴你们购买每一块土地时，都必须让原主保留赎回的权利。 ²⁵如果有人因贫穷而卖掉土地，他的近亲要把卖掉的土地赎回来。 ²⁶如果无人为他赎回，而他自己渐渐富裕起来，有能力赎回， ²⁷他要计算卖掉土地的年数，退还距下个禧年所剩年数的地价，便可以赎回自己的土地。 ²⁸如果他没有能力赎回，所卖的土地在禧年之前要属于买主。到了禧年，买主必须把土地归还原主。

赎回房屋的条例

²⁹“如果有人卖掉自己城里的房子，要保留一年赎回权。卖掉房子的一年之内，他可以赎回。 ³⁰如果一年之内他没有赎回，房子便永远归买主所有，就是到了禧年也不用归还。 ³¹如果房子在四围无墙的乡村，要视房子为乡下的土地，原主可以赎回；到了禧年，买主必须将房子归还。 ³²在利未人的城邑里，利未人有权随时赎回所卖的房子。 ³³如果他们没有赎回，到了禧年要把房子归还他们；因为在利未人的城里，利未人的房屋是他们在以色列人中所拥有的产业。 ³⁴但不可出卖利未人城郊的草场。那是他们永远拥有的产业。

照顾同胞的条例

³⁵“如果你们的同胞生活日益贫穷，难以维生，你们要像照顾外族人和寄居者一样照顾他的生活，让他住在你们当中。 ³⁶你们不可从中谋利，要敬畏上帝，让他住在你们当中。 ³⁷你们借钱给他，不可收取利息；借粮给他，不可谋利。 ³⁸我是你们的上帝耶和华。我曾经带领你们离开埃及，为要把迦南赐给你们，并做你们的上帝。

买卖奴隶的条例

³⁹“如果你们的同胞穷得把自己卖给你们，不可把他当作奴隶， ⁴⁰要待他像雇工和寄居者一样。他要为你工作到禧年。 ⁴¹到了禧年，他和孩子们便可以离开你们，回到自己的宗族和祖业。 ⁴²因为以色列人是我的仆人，是我从埃及带出来的，所以他们不可卖身为奴。 ⁴³你们也不可苛待他们，要敬畏你们的上帝。 ⁴⁴你们可以从邻国购买奴隶， ⁴⁵也可以买居住或出生在你们境内的外族人。这些人可以作你们的产业。 ⁴⁶你们可以将他们作为产业传给你们的子孙，使他们终身做奴隶。但你们不可苛待自己的同胞。

⁴⁷“如果你们中间的外族人渐渐富裕，你们同胞中却有人日益贫穷，把自己卖给外族人或他们的族人， ⁴⁸他可以保留赎身的权利。他的兄弟、 ⁴⁹叔伯、堂兄弟或其他近亲都可以赎回他。如果他富裕起来，也可以赎回自己。 ⁵⁰他要和买主计算从自己卖身为奴到下个禧年之间的年数，然后按雇工的工价，照年数计算赎价。 ⁵¹如果离禧年还有很多年，他就要按比例偿还大部分卖身款为自己赎身。 ⁵²如果离禧年只有不多的几年，他就要按年数偿还卖身款为自己赎身。 ⁵³买主要待他如按年雇佣的工人。你们要确保买主不会苛待他。 ⁵⁴如果禧年来临前他没有被赎回，到了禧年他和孩子们都要获得自由。 ⁵⁵因为以色列人是我的仆人，是我从埃及领出来的仆人。我是你们的上帝耶和华。

Leviticus 25

English Standard Version

The Sabbath Year

25 ^(A)The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into ^(B)the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. ³For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, ⁴but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. ⁵^(C)You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. ⁶The Sabbath of the land^[a] shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves^[b] and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, ⁷and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: ^(D)all its yield shall be for food.

The Year of Jubilee

⁸“You shall count seven weeks^[c] of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. ⁹Then you shall sound ^(E)the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. ^(F)On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. ¹⁰And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and ^(G)proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of ^(H)you shall return to his clan. ¹¹That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it ^(I)you shall neither sow nor reap ^(J)what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. ¹²For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. ^(K)You may eat the produce of the field.^[d]

¹³^(L)“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. ¹⁴And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, ^(M)you shall not wrong one another. ¹⁵^(N)You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops. ¹⁶If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. ¹⁷^(O)You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

¹⁸^(P)“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then ^(Q)you will dwell in the land securely. ¹⁹^(R)The land will yield its fruit, and ^(S)you will eat your fill ^(T)and dwell in it securely. ²⁰And if you say, ^(U)‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if ^(V)we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ ²¹I will ^(W)command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. ²²^(X)When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of ^(Y)the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.

Redemption of Property

²³“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for ^(Z)the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. ²⁴And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.

²⁵“If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, ^(AA)then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. ²⁶If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, ²⁷let ^(AB)him calculate the years since he sold it and pay back the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and then return to his property. ²⁸But if he does not have sufficient means to recover it, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee it shall ^(AC)be released, and ^(AD)he shall return to his property.

²⁹“If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. ³⁰If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, throughout his generations; ^(AE)it shall not be released in the jubilee. ³¹But the houses of the villages that have no wall around them shall be classified with the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and ^(AF)they shall be released in the jubilee. ³²As for ^(AG)the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess. ³³And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel. ³⁴But the fields ^(AH)of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.

Kindness for Poor Brothers

³⁵“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, ^(AI)you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. ³⁶^(AJ)Take no interest from him or profit, but ^(AK)fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. ³⁷^(AL)You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. ³⁸^(AM)I 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.

³⁹^(AN)“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: ⁴⁰he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. ⁴¹^(AO)Then he shall go out from you, ^(AP)he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return ^(AQ)to the possession of his fathers. ⁴²For they are ^(AR)my servants,^[e] whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. ⁴³^(AS)You shall not rule over him ^(AT)ruthlessly but ^(AU)shall fear your God. ⁴⁴As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. ⁴⁵^(AV)You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. ⁴⁶You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel ^(AW)you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.

Redeeming a Poor Man

⁴⁷“If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and ^(AX)your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger's clan, ⁴⁸then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him, ⁴⁹or his uncle or his cousin may ^(AY)redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he ^(AZ)grows rich he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰He shall calculate with his buyer from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall vary with the number of years. The time he was with his owner shall be ^(BA)rated as the time of a hired worker. ⁵¹If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. ⁵²If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service. ⁵³He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. ^(BB)He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight. ⁵⁴And if he is not redeemed by these means, then ^(BC)he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee. ⁵⁵For it is ^(BD)to me that the people of Israel are servants.^[f] They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Footnotes

Leviticus 25:6 That is, the Sabbath produce of the land
Leviticus 25:6 Or servants
Leviticus 25:8 Or Sabbaths
Leviticus 25:12 Or countryside
Leviticus 25:42 Hebrew slaves
Leviticus 25:55 Or slaves

Leviticus 25

New International Version

The Sabbath Year

25 The Lord said to Moses at Mount Sinai,^(A) ²“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the Lord. ³For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.^(B) ⁴But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest,^(C) a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.^(D) ⁵Do not reap what grows of itself^(E) or harvest the grapes^(F) of your untended vines.^(G) The land is to have a year of rest. ⁶Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year^(H) will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you, ⁷as well as for your livestock and the wild animals^(I) in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

The Year of Jubilee^(J)^(K)

⁸“‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. ⁹Then have the trumpet^(L) sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month;^(M) on the Day of Atonement^(N) sound the trumpet throughout your land. ¹⁰Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty^(O) throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee^(P) for you; each of you is to return to your family property^(Q) and to your own clan. ¹¹The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee^(R) for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.^(S) ¹²For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

¹³“‘In this Year of Jubilee^(T) everyone is to return to their own property.

¹⁴“‘If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.^(U) ¹⁵You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years^(V) since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops. ¹⁶When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price,^(W) because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops. ¹⁷Do not take advantage of each other,^(X) but fear your God.^(Y) I am the Lord your God.^(Z)

¹⁸“‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws,^(AA) and you will live safely in the land.^(AB) ¹⁹Then the land will yield its fruit,^(AC) and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.^(AD) ²⁰You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year^(AE) if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” ²¹I will send you such a blessing^(AF) in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.^(AG) ²²While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.^(AH)

²³“‘The land^(AI) must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine^(AJ) and you reside in my land as foreigners^(AK) and strangers. ²⁴Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption^(AL) of the land.

²⁵“‘If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative^(AM) is to come and redeem^(AN) what they have sold. ²⁶If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper^(AO) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, ²⁷they are to determine the value for the years^(AP) since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.^(AQ) ²⁸But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned^(AR) in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.^(AS)

²⁹“‘Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it. ³⁰If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer’s descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee. ³¹But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

³²“‘The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns,^(AT) which they possess. ³³So the property of the Levites is redeemable—that is, a house sold in any town they hold—and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites. ³⁴But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.^(AU)

³⁵“‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor^(AV) and are unable to support themselves among you, help them^(AW) as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you. ³⁶Do not take interest^(AX) or any profit from them, but fear your God,^(AY) so that they may continue to live among you. ³⁷You must not lend them money at interest^(AZ) or sell them food at a profit. ³⁸I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan^(BA) and to be your God.^(BB)

³⁹“‘If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.^(BC) ⁴⁰They are to be treated as hired workers^(BD) or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. ⁴¹Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property^(BE) of their ancestors.^(BF) ⁴²Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt,^(BG) they must not be sold as slaves. ⁴³Do not rule over them ruthlessly,^(BH) but fear your God.^(BI)

⁴⁴“‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. ⁴⁵You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. ⁴⁶You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

⁴⁷“‘If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves^(BJ) to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner’s clan, ⁴⁸they retain the right of redemption^(BK) after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives^(BL) may redeem them: ⁴⁹An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper,^(BM) they may redeem themselves. ⁵⁰They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee.^(BN) The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker^(BO) for that number of years. ⁵¹If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them. ⁵²If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.^(BP) ⁵³They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.^(BQ)

⁵⁴“‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, ⁵⁵for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt.^(BR) I am the Lord your God.^(BS)

Leviticus 25

King James Version

25 And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.

³Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

⁴But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

⁵That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

⁶And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.

⁷And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

⁸And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

⁹Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

¹⁰And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

¹¹A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

¹²For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

¹³In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

¹⁴And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

¹⁵According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

¹⁶According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

¹⁷Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the Lord your God.

¹⁸Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

¹⁹And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

²⁰And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

²¹Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

²²And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

²³The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

²⁴And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

²⁵If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

²⁶And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

²⁷Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

²⁸But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

²⁹And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

³⁰And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, 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 jubile.

³¹But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

³²Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

³³And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

³⁴But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

³⁵And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

³⁶Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

³⁷Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

³⁸I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

³⁹And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

⁴⁰But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.

⁴¹And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

⁴²For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

⁴³Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.

⁴⁴Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

⁴⁵Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

⁴⁶And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

⁴⁷And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

⁴⁸After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

⁴⁹Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

⁵⁰And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

⁵¹If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

⁵²And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

⁵³And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

⁵⁴And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

⁵⁵For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25

New King James Version

The Sabbath of the Seventh Year^(A)

25 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount ^(B)Sinai, saying, ²“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall ^(C)keep a sabbath to the Lord. ³Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; ⁴but in the ^(D)seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn ^(E)rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. ⁵^(F)What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. ⁶And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you, ⁷for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.

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. ⁹Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; ^(G)on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. ¹⁰And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and ^(H)proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; ^(I)and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. ¹¹That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it ^(J)you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. ¹²For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; ^(K)you shall eat its produce from the field.

¹³^(L)‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. ¹⁴And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not ^(M)oppress one another. ¹⁵^(N)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. ¹⁶According 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. ¹⁷Therefore ^(O)you shall not ^[a]oppress one another, ^(P)but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

Provisions for the Seventh Year

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

²⁰‘And if you say, ^(T)“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since ^(U)we shall not sow nor gather in our produce?” ²¹Then I will ^(V)command My blessing on you in the ^(W)sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. ²²^(X)And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat ^(Y)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 ^(Z)the land is Mine; for you are ^(AA)strangers and sojourners with Me. ²⁴And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.

²⁵^(AB)‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if ^(AC)his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. ²⁶Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, ²⁷then ^(AD)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. ²⁸But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; ^(AE)and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

²⁹‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year he may redeem it. ³⁰But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee. ³¹However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee. ³²Nevertheless ^(AF)the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time. ³³And if a man purchases a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. ³⁴But ^(AG)the field of the common-land of their cities may not be ^(AH)sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

Lending to the Poor

³⁵‘If one of your brethren becomes poor, and ^[b]falls into poverty among you, then you shall ^(AI)help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. ³⁶^(AJ)Take no usury or interest from him; but ^(AK)fear your God, that your brother may live with you. ³⁷You shall not lend him your money for usury, nor lend him your food at a profit. ³⁸^(AL)I 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.

The Law Concerning Slavery

³⁹‘And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. ⁴⁰As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. ⁴¹And then he shall depart from you—he and his children ^(AM)with him—and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers. ⁴²For they are ^(AN)My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. ⁴³^(AO)You shall not rule over him ^(AP)with ^[c]rigor, but you ^(AQ)shall fear your God. ⁴⁴And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. ⁴⁵Moreover you may buy ^(AR)the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property. ⁴⁶And ^(AS)you may take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.

⁴⁷‘Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, ⁴⁸after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him; ⁴⁹or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself. ⁵⁰Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be ^(AT)according to the time of a hired servant for him. ⁵¹If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought. ⁵²And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption. ⁵³He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor over him in your sight. ⁵⁴And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee—he and his children with him. ⁵⁵For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Footnotes

Leviticus 25:17 mistreat
Leviticus 25:35 Lit. his hand fails
Leviticus 25:43 severity

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利未记 25

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

安息年的条例

禧年的条例

赎回土地的条例

赎回房屋的条例

照顾同胞的条例

买卖奴隶的条例

Leviticus 25

English Standard Version

The Sabbath Year

The Year of Jubilee

Redemption of Property

Kindness for Poor Brothers

Redeeming a Poor Man

Footnotes

Cross references

Leviticus 25

New International Version

The Sabbath Year

The Year of Jubilee^(J)^(K)

Cross references

Leviticus 25

King James Version

Leviticus 25

New King James Version

The Sabbath of the Seventh Year^(A)

The Year of Jubilee

Provisions for the Seventh Year

Redemption of Property

Lending to the Poor

The Law Concerning Slavery

Footnotes

Cross references

More on the NIV

利未记 25 Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

安息年的条例

禧年的条例

赎回土地的条例

赎回房屋的条例

照顾同胞的条例

买卖奴隶的条例

Leviticus 25 English Standard Version

The Sabbath Year

The Year of Jubilee

Redemption of Property

Kindness for Poor Brothers

Redeeming a Poor Man

Footnotes

Cross references

Leviticus 25 New International Version

The Sabbath Year

The Year of Jubilee(J)(K)

Cross references

Leviticus 25 King James Version

Leviticus 25 New King James Version

The Sabbath of the Seventh Year(A)

The Year of Jubilee

Provisions for the Seventh Year

Redemption of Property

Lending to the Poor

The Law Concerning Slavery

Footnotes

Cross references

More on the NIV

利未记 25

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

Leviticus 25

English Standard Version

Leviticus 25

New International Version

The Year of Jubilee^(J)^(K)

Leviticus 25

King James Version

Leviticus 25

New King James Version

The Sabbath of the Seventh Year^(A)