Levitico 25
Conferenza Episcopale Italiana
Gli anni santi
A. L'anno sabbatico
25 Il Signore disse ancora a Mosè sul monte Sinai: 2 «Parla agli Israeliti e riferisci loro: Quando entrerete nel paese che io vi dò, la terra dovrà avere il suo sabato consacrato al Signore. 3 Per sei anni seminerai il tuo campo e poterai la tua vigna e ne raccoglierai i frutti; 4 ma il settimo anno sarà come sabato, un riposo assoluto per la terra, un sabato in onore del Signore; non seminerai il tuo campo e non poterai la tua vigna. 5 Non mieterai quello che nascerà spontaneamente dal seme caduto nella tua mietitura precedente e non vendemmierai l'uva della vigna che non avrai potata; sarà un anno di completo riposo per la terra. 6 Ciò che la terra produrrà durante il suo riposo servirà di nutrimento a te, al tuo schiavo, alla tua schiava, al tuo bracciante e al forestiero che è presso di te; 7 anche al tuo bestiame e agli animali che sono nel tuo paese servirà di nutrimento quanto essa produrrà.
B. L'anno del giubileo
8 Conterai anche sette settimane di anni, cioè sette volte sette anni; queste sette settimane di anni faranno un periodo di quarantanove anni. 9 Al decimo giorno del settimo mese, farai squillare la tromba dell'acclamazione; nel giorno dell'espiazione farete squillare la tromba per tutto il paese. 10 Dichiarerete santo il cinquantesimo anno e proclamerete la liberazione nel paese per tutti i suoi abitanti. Sarà per voi un giubileo; ognuno di voi tornerà nella sua proprietà e nella sua famiglia. 11 Il cinquantesimo anno sarà per voi un giubileo; non farete né semina, né mietitura di quanto i campi produrranno da sé, né farete la vendemmia delle vigne non potate. 12 Poiché è il giubileo; esso vi sarà sacro; potrete però mangiare il prodotto che daranno i campi. 13 In quest'anno del giubileo, ciascuno tornerà in possesso del suo. 14 Quando vendete qualche cosa al vostro prossimo o quando acquistate qualche cosa dal vostro prossimo, nessuno faccia torto al fratello. 15 Regolerai l'acquisto che farai dal tuo prossimo in base al numero degli anni trascorsi dopo l'ultimo giubileo: egli venderà a te in base agli anni di rendita. 16 Quanti più anni resteranno, tanto più aumenterai il prezzo; quanto minore sarà il tempo, tanto più ribasserai il prezzo; perché egli ti vende la somma dei raccolti. 17 Nessuno di voi danneggi il fratello, ma temete il vostro Dio, poiché io sono il Signore vostro Dio.
Garanzia divina per l'anno sabbatico
18 Metterete in pratica le mie leggi e osserverete le mie prescrizioni, le adempirete e abiterete il paese tranquilli. 19 La terra produrrà frutti, voi ne mangerete a sazietà e vi abiterete tranquilli. 20 Se dite: Che mangeremo il settimo anno, se non semineremo e non raccoglieremo i nostri prodotti?, 21 io disporrò in vostro favore un raccolto abbondante per il sesto anno ed esso vi darà frutti per tre anni. 22 L'ottavo anno seminerete e consumerete il vecchio raccolto fino al nono anno; mangerete il raccolto vecchio finché venga il nuovo.
Riscatto delle proprietà
23 Le terre non si potranno vendere per sempre, perché la terra è mia e voi siete presso di me come forestieri e inquilini. 24 Perciò, in tutto il paese che avrete in possesso, concederete il diritto di riscatto per quanto riguarda il suolo. 25 Se il tuo fratello, divenuto povero, vende una parte della sua proprietà, colui che ha il diritto di riscatto, cioè il suo parente più stretto, verrà e riscatterà ciò che il fratello ha venduto. 26 Se uno non ha chi possa fare il riscatto, ma giunge a procurarsi da sé la somma necessaria al riscatto, 27 conterà le annate passate dopo la vendita, restituirà al compratore il valore degli anni che ancora rimangono e rientrerà così in possesso del suo patrimonio. 28 Ma se non trova da sé la somma sufficiente a rimborsarlo, ciò che ha venduto rimarrà in mano al compratore fino all'anno del giubileo; al giubileo il compratore uscirà e l'altro rientrerà in possesso del suo patrimonio.
29 Se uno vende una casa abitabile in una città recinta di mura, ha diritto al riscatto fino allo scadere dell'anno dalla vendita; il suo diritto di riscatto durerà un anno intero. 30 Ma se quella casa, posta in una città recinta di mura, non è riscattata prima dello scadere di un intero anno, rimarrà sempre proprietà del compratore e dei suoi discendenti; il compratore non sarà tenuto a uscire al giubileo. 31 Però le case dei villaggi non attorniati da mura vanno considerate come parte dei fondi campestri; potranno essere riscattate e al giubileo il compratore dovrà uscire.
32 Quanto alle città dei leviti e alle case che essi vi possederanno, i leviti avranno il diritto perenne di riscatto. 33 Se chi riscatta è un levita, in occasione del giubileo il compratore uscirà dalla casa comprata nella città levitica, perché le case delle città levitiche sono loro proprietà, in mezzo agli Israeliti. 34 Neppure campi situati nei dintorni delle città levitiche si potranno vendere, perché sono loro proprietà perenne.
Riscatto delle persone
35 Se il tuo fratello che è presso di te cade in miseria ed è privo di mezzi, aiutalo, come un forestiero e inquilino, perché possa vivere presso di te. 36 Non prendere da lui interessi, né utili; ma temi il tuo Dio e fà vivere il tuo fratello presso di te. 37 Non gli presterai il denaro a interesse, né gli darai il vitto a usura. 38 Io sono il Signore vostro Dio, che vi ho fatto uscire dal paese d'Egitto, per darvi il paese di Canaan, per essere il vostro Dio.
39 Se il tuo fratello che è presso di te cade in miseria e si vende a te, non farlo lavorare come schiavo; 40 sia presso di te come un bracciante, come un inquilino. Ti servirà fino all'anno del giubileo; 41 allora se ne andrà da te insieme con i suoi figli, tornerà nella sua famiglia e rientrerà nella proprietà dei suoi padri. 42 Poiché essi sono miei servi, che io ho fatto uscire dal paese d'Egitto; non debbono essere venduti come si vendono gli schiavi. 43 Non lo tratterai con asprezza, ma temerai il tuo Dio. 44 Quanto allo schiavo e alla schiava, che avrai in proprietà, potrete prenderli dalle nazioni che vi circondano; da queste potrete comprare lo schiavo e la schiava. 45 Potrete anche comprarne tra i figli degli stranieri, stabiliti presso di voi e tra le loro famiglie che sono presso di voi, tra i loro figli nati nel vostro paese; saranno vostra proprietà. 46 Li potrete lasciare in eredità ai vostri figli dopo di voi, come loro proprietà; vi potrete servire sempre di loro come di schiavi; ma quanto ai vostri fratelli, gli Israeliti, ognuno nei riguardi dell'altro, non lo tratterai con asprezza.
47 Se un forestiero stabilito presso di te diventa ricco e il tuo fratello si grava di debiti con lui e si vende al forestiero stabilito presso di te o a qualcuno della sua famiglia, 48 dopo che si è venduto, ha il diritto di riscatto; lo potrà riscattare uno dei suoi fratelli 49 o suo zio o il figlio di suo zio; lo potrà riscattare uno dei parenti dello stesso suo sangue o, se ha i mezzi di farlo, potrà riscattarsi da sé. 50 Farà il calcolo con il suo compratore, dall'anno che gli si è venduto all'anno del giubileo; il prezzo da pagare sarà in proporzione del numero degli anni, valutando le sue giornate come quelle di un bracciante. 51 Se vi sono ancora molti anni per arrivare al giubileo, pagherà il riscatto in ragione di questi anni e in proporzione del prezzo per il quale fu comprato; 52 se rimangono pochi anni per arrivare al giubileo, farà il calcolo con il suo compratore e pagherà il prezzo del suo riscatto in ragione di quegli anni. 53 Resterà presso di lui come un bracciante preso a servizio anno per anno; il padrone non dovrà trattarlo con asprezza sotto i suoi occhi. 54 Se non è riscattato in alcuno di quei modi, se ne andrà libero l'anno del giubileo: lui con i suoi figli. 55 Poiché gli Israeliti sono miei servi; miei servi, che ho fatto uscire dal paese d'Egitto. Io sono il Signore vostro Dio».
Leviticus 25
Legacy Standard Bible
The Sabbatical Year
25 Yahweh then spoke to Moses [a]at Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land shall have a sabbath to Yahweh. 3 (A)Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce, 4 but during (B)the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to Yahweh; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5 [b]What grows of its own accord from your harvest you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year. 6 (C)And the sabbath produce of the land shall be for food; for you and your male and female slaves and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who sojourn with you. 7 Even your cattle and the beasts that are in your land shall have all its produce to eat.
The Year of Jubilee
8 ‘You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. 9 You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on (D)the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. 10 You shall thus set apart as holy the fiftieth year and (E)proclaim [c]a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, [d]and (F)each of you shall return to his own possession of land, [e]and each of you shall return to his family. 11 You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow; you shall not reap what grows of its own accord; you shall not gather in from its untrimmed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce out of the field.
13 ‘(G)On this year of jubilee, each of you shall return to his own possession of land. 14 If you make a sale, moreover, to your companion or buy from your friend’s hand, (H)you shall not mistreat one another. 15 Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your [f]companion; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of produce. 16 (I)In proportion to the [g]extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is the number of crops it produces that he is selling to you. 17 So (J)you shall not mistreat one another, but you shall [h]fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
18 ‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to do them, that (K)you may live securely on the land. 19 Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it. 20 But if you say, “(L)What are we going to eat on the seventh year [i]if we do not sow or gather in our produce?” 21 then (M)I will command My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the produce for three years. 22 So you shall sow the eighth year and eat (N)old things from that produce, eating the old until the ninth year when its produce comes in.
The Redemption of Land
23 ‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for (O)the land is Mine; for (P)you are but sojourners and foreign residents with Me. 24 Thus for every [j]piece of land of your possession, you shall provide for the redemption of the land.
25 ‘(Q)If a brother of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his possession of land, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother has sold. 26 Or in case a man has no kinsman redeemer, but [k]recovers his means and finds sufficient payment for its redemption, 27 (R)then he shall calculate the years since its sale and return the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his possession of land. 28 But if [l]he has not found sufficient means to return it to himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall [m]revert, that (S)he may return to his possession of land.
29 ‘Likewise, if a man sells a house for habitation in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year. 30 But if it is not redeemed for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not [n]revert in the jubilee. 31 The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall, shall be considered [o]as open fields; they have redemption rights and [p]revert in the jubilee. 32 As for (T)cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession. 33 What, therefore, [q]belongs to the Levites may be redeemed, and a house sale [r]in the city of [s]their possession [t]reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. 34 (U)But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.
Redemption Rights for Poor Brothers
35 ‘(V)Now if a brother of yours becomes poor and his [u]means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a sojourner or a foreign resident, that he may live with you. 36 (W)Do not take [v]usurious interest from him, but fear your God, that your brother may live with you. 37 You shall not give him your silver at interest nor your food for gain. 38 (X)I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and (Y)to be your God.
39 ‘(Z)If a brother of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service. 40 He shall be with you as a hired man, as (AA)if he were a foreign resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. 41 He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall return to his family, that he may return to the possession of the land of his fathers. 42 For they are My slaves whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold in a slave sale. 43 (AB)You shall not have dominion over him with brutality, but you shall fear your God. 44 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the nations that are around you. 45 And also you may acquire from the sons of the foreign residents who sojourn among you, from them and their families who are with you; as for those whom they have begotten in your land, they also may become your possession. 46 You may even give them as an inheritance to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. (AC)But in respect to your brothers, the sons of Israel, you shall not have dominion over one another with brutality.
Redemption from a Sojourner
47 ‘Now if the [w]means of a sojourner or of a foreign resident with you becomes sufficient, and a brother of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a sojourner who resides with you or to the descendants of a sojourner’s family, 48 then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him, 49 or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or [x](AD)if he prospers, he may redeem himself. 50 He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him. 51 If there are still many years, (AE)he shall return part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption; 52 and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he shall return the amount for his redemption. 53 Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; (AF)he shall not have dominion over him with brutality in your sight. 54 Even if he is not redeemed by [y]these means, (AG)he shall still go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him. 55 For the sons of Israel are My slaves; they are My slaves whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
Footnotes
- Leviticus 25:1 Or on
- Leviticus 25:5 Lit The growth from spilled kernels
- Leviticus 25:10 Or liberty
- Leviticus 25:10 Or when
- Leviticus 25:10 Or when
- Leviticus 25:15 Lit companion’s hands
- Leviticus 25:16 Lit multitude
- Leviticus 25:17 Or reverence
- Leviticus 25:20 Or behold
- Leviticus 25:24 Lit land
- Leviticus 25:26 Lit his hand reaches
- Leviticus 25:28 Lit his hand has not found sufficient to
- Leviticus 25:28 Lit go out
- Leviticus 25:30 Lit go out
- Leviticus 25:31 Lit according to
- Leviticus 25:31 Lit go out
- Leviticus 25:33 Lit is from
- Leviticus 25:33 Lit and
- Leviticus 25:33 Lit his
- Leviticus 25:33 Lit goes out
- Leviticus 25:35 Lit hand
- Leviticus 25:36 Lit interest and usury
- Leviticus 25:47 Lit hand...reaches
- Leviticus 25:49 Lit if his hand has reached and
- Leviticus 25:54 Or these years
Leviticus 25
King James Version
25 And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak 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.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But 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.
5 That 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.
6 And 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.
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
8 And 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.
9 Then 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.
10 And 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.
11 A 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.
12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
15 According 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:
16 According 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.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God:for I am the Lord your God.
18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
22 And 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.
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 If 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.
26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
27 Then 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.
28 But 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.
29 And 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.
30 And 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.
31 But 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.
32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
33 And 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.
34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
35 And 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.
36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
38 I 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.
39 And 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:
40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile.
41 And 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.
42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
44 Both 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.
45 Moreover 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.
46 And 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.
47 And 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:
48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
49 Either 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.
50 And 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.
51 If 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.
52 And 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.
53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
54 And 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.
55 For 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.
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