Leviticus 24:16-25:17

English Standard Version

¹⁶Whoever ^(A)blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him. The sojourner as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

An Eye for an Eye

¹⁷^(B)“Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸^(C)Whoever takes an animal's life shall make it good, life for life. ¹⁹If anyone injures his neighbor, ^(D)as he has done it shall be done to him, ²⁰fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him. ²¹^(E)Whoever kills an animal shall make it good, ^(F)and whoever kills a person shall be put to death. ²²You shall have the ^(G)same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God.” ²³So Moses spoke to the people of Israel, and ^(H)they brought out of the camp the one who had cursed and stoned him with stones. Thus the people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

The Sabbath Year

25 ^(I)The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, ²“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into ^(J)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^(K)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: ^(L)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 ^(M)the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. ^(N)On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. ¹⁰And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and ^(O)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 ^(P)you shall return to his clan. ¹¹That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it ^(Q)you shall neither sow nor reap ^(R)what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. ¹²For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. ^(S)You may eat the produce of the field.^[d]

¹³^(T)“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, ^(U)you shall not wrong one another. ¹⁵^(V)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^(W)You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.