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Levítico 25
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Levítico 25
Nueva Versión Internacional (Castilian)
El año sabático
25 En el monte Sinaí, el Señor le ordenó a Moisés 2 que les dijera a los israelitas: «Cuando hayáis entrado en la tierra que os voy a dar, la tierra misma deberá observar un año de reposo[a] en honor al Señor. 3 Durante seis años sembrarás tus campos, podarás tus viñas y cosecharás sus productos; 4 pero, llegado el séptimo año, la tierra gozará de un año de reposo en honor al Señor. No sembrarás tus campos ni podarás tus viñas; 5 no segarás lo que haya brotado por sí mismo ni vendimiarás las uvas de tus viñas no cultivadas. La tierra gozará de un año completo de reposo. 6 Sin embargo, de todo lo que la tierra produzca durante ese año sabático, podréis comer no solo tú, sino también tu siervo y tu sierva, el jornalero y el residente transitorio entre vosotros. 7 También podrán alimentarse tu ganado y los animales que haya en el país. Todo lo que la tierra produzca ese año será solo para el consumo diario.
El año del jubileo
8 »Siete veces contarás siete años sabáticos, de modo que los siete años sabáticos sumen cuarenta y nueve años, 9 y el día diez del mes séptimo, es decir, el día del Perdón, harás resonar la trompeta por todo el país. 10 El año cincuenta será declarado santo, y se proclamará en el país la liberación de todos sus habitantes. Será para vosotros un jubileo, y cada uno volverá a su heredad familiar y a su propio clan. 11 El año cincuenta será para vosotros un jubileo: ese año no sembraréis ni cosecharéis lo que haya brotado por sí mismo, ni tampoco vendimiaréis las viñas no cultivadas. 12 Ese año es jubileo y será santo para vosotros. Comeréis solamente lo que los campos produzcan por sí mismos.
13 »En el año de jubileo cada uno volverá a su heredad familiar.
14 »Si entre vosotros se realizan transacciones de compraventa, no os explotéis los unos a los otros. 15 Tú comprarás de tu prójimo a un precio proporcional al número de años que falten para el próximo jubileo, y él te venderá a un precio proporcional al número de años que queden por cosechar. 16 Si aún faltan muchos años para el jubileo, aumentarás el precio en la misma proporción; pero, si faltan pocos, rebajarás el precio proporcionalmente, porque lo que se te está vendiendo es solo el número de cosechas. 17 No os explotaréis los unos a los otros, sino que temeréis a vuestro Dios. Yo soy el Señor vuestro Dios.
Consecuencias de la obediencia
18 »Poned en práctica mis estatutos y observad mis preceptos, y habitaréis seguros en la tierra. 19 La tierra dará su fruto, y comeréis hasta saciaros, y allí viviréis seguros.
20 »Si acaso os preguntáis: “¿Qué comeremos en el séptimo año si no plantamos ni cosechamos nuestros productos?”, 21 dejadme deciros que en el sexto año os enviaré una bendición tan grande que la tierra producirá como para tres años. 22 Cuando vosotros sembréis durante el octavo año, todavía estaréis comiendo de la cosecha anterior, y continuaréis comiendo de ella hasta la cosecha del año siguiente.
Leyes sobre el rescate de propiedades
23 »La tierra no se venderá a perpetuidad, porque la tierra es mía y vosotros no sois aquí más que forasteros y huéspedes. 24 Por tanto, en el país habrá la posibilidad de recobrar todo terreno que haya sido heredad familiar.
25 »En el caso de que uno de tus compatriotas se empobrezca y tenga que vender parte de su heredad familiar, su pariente más cercano rescatará lo que su hermano haya vendido. 26 Si el hombre no tiene a nadie que pague el rescate a su favor, pero él mismo llega a prosperar y consigue lo suficiente para rescatar su propiedad, 27 deberá calcular el número de años transcurridos desde la venta y reembolsar el saldo a quien se la haya comprado. Así podrá volver a su propiedad. 28 Pero, si no consigue lo suficiente para rescatarla, la tierra quedará en posesión del comprador hasta el año del jubileo, cuando el que la vendió la recobrará, y esta volverá a su heredad familiar.
29 »Si alguno vende una casa en una ciudad amurallada, tendrá derecho a rescatarla durante un año completo a partir de la fecha de venta. Ese es el tiempo que dura su derecho a rescatarla. 30 Si no rescata la casa antes de cumplirse el año, no se le devolverá en el jubileo, sino que pasará a ser propiedad perpetua del comprador y de sus descendientes.
31 »Las casas que estén en aldeas sin murallas se considerarán campo abierto, pero podrán rescatarse y se devolverán en el jubileo.
32 »Los levitas tendrán siempre el derecho de rescatar sus casas en las ciudades de su propiedad. 33 Si alguno de los levitas hace valer su derecho, la casa que vendió en una de sus ciudades se le devolverá en el jubileo, porque las casas en las ciudades de los levitas son su heredad familiar entre los israelitas. 34 Pero los campos alrededor de sus ciudades no se venderán, pues son su propiedad inalienable.
35 »Si alguno de tus compatriotas se empobrece y no tiene cómo sostenerse, ayúdale como lo harías con el extranjero o con el residente transitorio; así podrá seguir viviendo entre vosotros. 36 No le exigirás interés cuando le prestes dinero o víveres, sino que temerás a tu Dios; así tu compatriota podrá seguir viviendo entre vosotros. 37 Tampoco le prestarás dinero con intereses ni le impondrás recargo a los víveres que le fíes. 38 Yo soy el Señor vuestro Dios, que os saqué de Egipto para daros la tierra de Canaán y para ser vuestro Dios.
39 »Si alguno de tus compatriotas se empobrece y se ve obligado a venderse a ti, no lo hagas trabajar como esclavo. 40 Trátalo como al jornalero o como al residente transitorio que vive entre vosotros. Trabajará para ti, solo hasta el año del jubileo. 41 Entonces lo pondrás en libertad junto con sus hijos, y podrán volver a su propia familia y a la heredad de sus antepasados. 42 Todos los israelitas son mis siervos. Yo los saqué de Egipto, así que no serán vendidos como esclavos. 43 No serás un amo cruel, sino que temerás a tu Dios.
44 »Asegúrate de que tus esclavos y esclavas provengan de las naciones vecinas; allí podrás comprarlos. 45 También podrás comprar esclavos nacidos en tu país, siempre y cuando sean de las familias extranjeras que vivan en medio de vosotros. Ellos serán vuestra propiedad, 46 y podréis dejárselos a vuestros hijos como herencia para que les sirvan de por vida. En lo que respecta a tus compatriotas, no serás un amo cruel.
47 »Si un extranjero o un residente transitorio entre vosotros se enriquece, y uno de tus compatriotas se empobrece y tiene que venderse a un extranjero o a un familiar de ese extranjero, 48 no perderá su derecho a ser rescatado después de haberse vendido. Podrá rescatarlo cualquiera de sus parientes: 49 un tío, un primo o cualquier otro de sus parientes. Y, si llegara a prosperar, él mismo podrá pagar su rescate. 50 Él y su dueño calcularán el tiempo transcurrido, desde el año en que se vendió hasta el año del jubileo. El precio de su liberación se determinará en proporción al sueldo de un jornalero por ese número de años. 51 Si aún faltan muchos años, pagará por su rescate una suma proporcional a la que se pagó por él. 52 Si solo faltan pocos años para el jubileo, calculará y pagará por su rescate en proporción a esos años. 53 Vosotros vigilaréis que su dueño lo trate como a los que trabajan por contrato anual, y que no lo trate con crueldad.
54 »Si tu compatriota no es rescatado por ninguno de esos medios, tanto él como sus hijos quedarán en libertad en el año del jubileo.
55 »Los israelitas son mis siervos. Yo los saqué de Egipto. Yo soy el Señor vuestro Dios.
Footnotes
- 25:2 un año de reposo. Lit. un sábado; también en vv. 4-6.
Leviticus 25
New International Version
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. 3 For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.(B) 4 But 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) 5 Do 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. 6 Whatever 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, 7 as 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. 9 Then 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. 10 Consecrate 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. 11 The 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) 12 For 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) 15 You 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. 16 When 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. 17 Do 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) 19 Then the land will yield its fruit,(AC) and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.(AD) 20 You may ask, “What will we eat in the seventh year(AE) if we do not plant or harvest our crops?” 21 I will send you such a blessing(AF) in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.(AG) 22 While 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. 24 Throughout 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. 26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper(AO) and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves, 27 they 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) 28 But 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. 30 If 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. 31 But 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. 33 So 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. 34 But 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. 36 Do not take interest(AX) or any profit from them, but fear your God,(AY) so that they may continue to live among you. 37 You must not lend them money at interest(AZ) or sell them food at a profit. 38 I 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) 40 They are to be treated as hired workers(BD) or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee. 41 Then 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) 42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt,(BG) they must not be sold as slaves. 43 Do 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. 45 You 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. 46 You 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, 48 they retain the right of redemption(BK) after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives(BL) may redeem them: 49 An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper,(BM) they may redeem themselves. 50 They 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. 51 If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them. 52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.(BP) 53 They 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, 55 for 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
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. 3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruits, 4 but 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. 6 The 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, 7 and 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. 9 Then 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. 10 And 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. 11 That 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. 12 For 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. 14 And 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. 16 If 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. 20 And if you say, (U)‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if (V)we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ 21 I 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. 24 And 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. 26 If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 27 let (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. 28 But 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. 30 If 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. 31 But 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. 32 As for (AG)the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess. 33 And 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. 34 But 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: 40 he 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. 42 For 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. 44 As 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. 46 You 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, 48 then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him, 49 or 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. 50 He 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. 51 If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. 52 If 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. 53 He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. (BB)He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight. 54 And if he is not redeemed by these means, then (BC)he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee. 55 For 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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