利未记 25

Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)

安息年

25 耶和华在西奈山对摩西说： ²“你晓谕以色列人说：你们到了我所赐你们那地的时候，地就要向耶和华守安息。 ³六年要耕种田地，也要修理葡萄园，收藏地的出产。 ⁴第七年，地要守圣安息，就是向耶和华守的安息，不可耕种田地，也不可修理葡萄园。 ⁵遗落自长的庄稼不可收割，没有修理的葡萄树也不可摘取葡萄。这年，地要守圣安息。 ⁶地在安息年所出的，要给你和你的仆人、婢女、雇工人，并寄居的外人当食物。 ⁷这年的土产也要给你的牲畜和你地上的走兽当食物。

禧年

⁸“你要计算七个安息年，就是七七年。这便为你成了七个安息年，共是四十九年。 ⁹当年七月初十日，你要大发角声，这日就是赎罪日，要在遍地发出角声。 ¹⁰第五十年，你们要当做圣年，在遍地给一切的居民宣告自由。这年必为你们的禧年，各人要归自己的产业，各归本家。 ¹¹第五十年要作为你们的禧年，这年不可耕种，地中自长的不可收割，没有修理的葡萄树也不可摘取葡萄。 ¹²因为这是禧年，你们要当做圣年，吃地中自出的土产。

¹³“这禧年，你们各人要归自己的地业。 ¹⁴你若卖什么给邻舍，或是从邻舍的手中买什么，彼此不可亏负。 ¹⁵你要按禧年以后的年数向邻舍买，他也要按年数的收成卖给你。 ¹⁶年岁若多，要照数加添价值，年岁若少，要照数减去价值，因为他照收成的数目卖给你。 ¹⁷你们彼此不可亏负，只要敬畏你们的神，因为我是耶和华你们的神。

¹⁸“我的律例你们要遵行，我的典章你们要谨守，就可以在那地上安然居住。 ¹⁹地必出土产，你们就要吃饱，在那地上安然居住。 ²⁰你们若说：‘这第七年我们不耕种，也不收藏土产，吃什么呢？’ ²¹我必在第六年将我所命的福赐给你们，地便生三年的土产。 ²²第八年，你们要耕种，也要吃陈粮，等到第九年出产收来的时候，你们还吃陈粮。

赎地之例

²³“地不可永卖，因为地是我的，你们在我面前是客旅，是寄居的。 ²⁴在你们所得为业的全地，也要准人将地赎回。 ²⁵你的弟兄^[a]若渐渐穷乏，卖了几分地业，他至近的亲属就要来把弟兄所卖的赎回。 ²⁶若没有能给他赎回的，他自己渐渐富足，能够赎回， ²⁷就要算出卖地的年数，把余剩年数的价值还那买主，自己便归回自己的地业。 ²⁸倘若不能为自己得回所卖的，仍要存在买主的手里直到禧年，到了禧年，地业要出买主的手，自己便归回自己的地业。

赎宅之例

²⁹“人若卖城内的住宅，卖了以后，一年之内可以赎回；在一整年，必有赎回的权柄。 ³⁰若在一整年之内不赎回，这城内的房屋就定准永归买主，世世代代为业，在禧年也不得出买主的手。 ³¹但房屋在无城墙的村庄里，要看如乡下的田地一样，可以赎回，到了禧年，都要出买主的手。 ³²然而利未人所得为业的城邑，其中的房屋，利未人可以随时赎回。 ³³若是一个利未人不将所卖的房屋赎回，是在所得为业的城内，到了禧年就要出买主的手，因为利未人城邑的房屋是他们在以色列人中的产业。 ³⁴只是他们各城郊野之地不可卖，因为是他们永远的产业。

勿取贫者之利

³⁵“你的弟兄在你那里若渐渐贫穷，手中缺乏，你就要帮补他，使他与你同住，像外人和寄居的一样。 ³⁶不可向他取利，也不可向他多要，只要敬畏你的神，使你的弟兄与你同住。 ³⁷你借钱给他，不可向他取利；借粮给他，也不可向他多要。 ³⁸我是耶和华你们的神，曾领你们从埃及地出来，为要把迦南地赐给你们，要做你们的神。

穷乏者自鬻之例

³⁹“你的弟兄若在你那里渐渐穷乏，将自己卖给你，不可叫他像奴仆服侍你。 ⁴⁰他要在你那里像雇工人和寄居的一样，要服侍你直到禧年。 ⁴¹到了禧年，他和他儿女要离开你，一同出去归回本家，到他祖宗的地业那里去， ⁴²因为他们是我的仆人，是我从埃及地领出来的，不可卖为奴仆。 ⁴³不可严严地辖管他，只要敬畏你的神。 ⁴⁴至于你的奴仆、婢女，可以从你四围的国中买； ⁴⁵并且那寄居在你们中间的外人和他们的家属，在你们地上所生的，你们也可以从其中买人，他们要做你们的产业。 ⁴⁶你们要将他们遗留给你们的子孙为产业，要永远从他们中间拣出奴仆，只是你们的弟兄以色列人，你们不可严严地辖管。

鬻于外人者宜赎之

⁴⁷“住在你那里的外人或是寄居的，若渐渐富足，你的弟兄却渐渐穷乏，将自己卖给那外人，或是寄居的，或是外人的宗族， ⁴⁸卖了以后，可以将他赎回。无论是他的弟兄， ⁴⁹或伯叔，伯叔的儿子，本家的近支，都可以赎他。他自己若渐渐富足，也可以自赎。 ⁵⁰他要和买主计算，从卖自己的那年起，算到禧年，所卖的价值照着年数多少，好像工人每年的工价。 ⁵¹若缺少的年数多，就要按着年数从买价中偿还他的赎价。 ⁵²若到禧年只缺少几年，就要按着年数和买主计算，偿还他的赎价。 ⁵³他和买主同住，要像每年雇的工人，买主不可严严地辖管他。 ⁵⁴他若不这样被赎，到了禧年，要和他的儿女一同出去， ⁵⁵因为以色列人都是我的仆人，是我从埃及地领出来的。我是耶和华你们的神。

Footnotes

利未记 25:25 “弟兄”指本国人说，下同。

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

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

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

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