Leviticus 25 – Verses from Leviticus 25 from the book of Leviticus in the Bible.

Leviticus 25 – Verses from Leviticus 25 of the book of Leviticus of the Bible.

¹ Then the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai:

² “Tell the Israelites this: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself will keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

³ For six years, sow your crops, trim your vines and harvest your crops.

⁴ But in the seventh year the land will have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath dedicated to the Lord. Do not sow your crops or trim your vineyards.

⁵ Do not harvest what grows on your own, nor gather grapes from your vineyards that will not be pruned. The land will have a year of rest.

⁶ You will support yourselves from what the land produces in the year of rest, you, your slave, your slave, the hired worker and the temporary resident who lives among you,

⁷ as well as their flocks and the wild animals of their land. Everything the land produces can be eaten.

⁸ “Count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years; these seven weeks of years total forty-nine years.

⁹ Then sound the trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.

¹⁰ Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberation throughout the land to all its inhabitants. This will be a year of jubilee for you, when each of you will return to your family estate and your own clan.

¹¹ The fiftieth year will be their jubilee; Do not sow and do not reap what grows by itself or harvest from unpruned vines.

¹² It is jubilee, and it will be holy to them; eat only what the land produces.

¹³ “In this year of jubilee, each of you will return to your homestead.

¹⁴ “If you sell property to your neighbor or buy property from him, do not exploit your brother.

¹⁵ What you buy from your neighbor will be valued based on the number of years since the Jubilee. And it will sell based on the number of years of harvest left.

¹⁶ When the years are many, you must increase the price, but when there are few, you must decrease the price, because what he is selling you is the number of harvests.

¹⁷ Do not exploit one another, but fear your God. I am the Lord, your God.

¹⁸ “Put into practice my decrees and obey my ordinances, and you will live safely in the land.

¹⁹ Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

²⁰ You may ask, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we neither plant nor harvest? '

²¹ Know that I will send you my blessing in the sixth year, and the land will produce enough for three years.

²² When you are planting in the eighth year, you will still eat from the previous harvest and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year.

²³ “The land cannot be sold definitively, because it is mine, and you are just foreigners and immigrants.

²⁴ In every land in which you have ownership, grant the right to redeem the land.

²⁵ “If one of your people becomes impoverished and sells part of his property, his closest relative will come and redeem what his compatriot sold.

²⁶ If, however, a man has no one to redeem his land, but he himself prospers and acquires resources to redeem it,

²⁷ he will calculate the years since he sold it and return the difference to the person he sold it to; then you can return to your property.

²⁸ But if he does not acquire resources to return the value, the property he sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the jubilee year. It will be returned at the Jubilee, and he can then return to his property.

²⁹ “If a man sells a house in a walled city, he will have the right to redeem it until one year after the sale. During this period you can redeem it.

³⁰ If it is not redeemed before the end of one year, the house in the walled city will definitely belong to the buyer and his descendants; will not be returned at the Jubilee.

³¹ But houses in villages without walls around them will be considered open fields. They can be redeemed and will be returned at the Jubilee.

³² “In the case of the cities of the Levites, they will always have the right to redeem their homes in the cities that belong to them.

³³ Thus, the property of the Levites, that is, a house sold in any of their cities, is redeemable and must be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

³⁴ But the pastures belonging to your cities will not be sold; are their permanent property.

³⁵ “If one of your people becomes impoverished and cannot support himself, help him as you do a foreigner and a temporary resident, so that he can continue to live among you.

³⁶ Do not take any interest from him, but fear your God, so that your neighbor may continue to live among you.

³⁷ You cannot demand interest from him or lend him food for profit.

³⁸ 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 “If one of your people becomes poor and sells himself to one of you, do not make him work as a slave.

⁴⁰ He must be treated as a contract worker or as a temporary resident; he will work for the one who bought him until the jubilee year.

⁴¹ Then he and his children will be free, and he can return to his own clan and the property of his ancestors.

⁴² For the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; They cannot be sold as slaves.

⁴³ Do not rule mercilessly over them, but fear your God.

⁴⁴ “Your male and female slaves must come from the people who live around you; From them you will be able to buy male and female slaves.

⁴⁵ You will also be able to buy them among the children of the temporary residents who live among you and among those who belong to their clans, even if they were born in your land; they will become your property.

⁴⁶ You can leave them as an inheritance to your children and you can make them slaves forever, but you cannot dominate your Israelite brothers mercilessly.

⁴⁷ “If a foreigner or a temporary resident among you becomes rich and one of your people becomes poor and sells himself to that foreigner or to someone belonging to that foreigner's clan,

⁴⁸ will retain the right of redemption even after selling itself. One of your relatives may be able to rescue you:

⁴⁹ or uncle, or cousin, or any close relative can rescue you. If, however, he prospers, he will be able to redeem himself.

⁵⁰ He and his buyer will count the time from the year he sold himself until the year of jubilee. The buyout price will be based on the salary of an employee hired for that number of years.

⁵¹ If there are many years left, you will pay your redemption in proportion to the purchase price.

⁵² If there are only a few years left until the year of jubilee, he will make the calculation, and pay his ransom in proportion to the years.

⁵³ He must be treated as an employee hired annually; do not allow your master to rule mercilessly over him.

⁵⁴ “If he is not rescued in any of these ways, he and his sons will be free in the year of jubilee,

⁵⁵ for the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord, the Your God.”