Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 25

Lev 25:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying,
Lev 25:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you
come into the land which I give you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath to
.יהוה
Lev 25:3 ‘Six years you sow your field, and six years you prune your
vineyard, and gather in its fruit,
Lev 25:4 but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a
Sabbath to יהוה. Do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard.
Lev 25:5 ‘Do not reap what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not
gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
Lev 25:6 ‘And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, for you and
your servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the
stranger who sojourns with you,
Lev 25:7 and for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land. All its
crops are for food.
Lev 25:8 ‘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.
Lev 25:9 ‘You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day
of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass
through all your land.
Lev 25:10 ‘And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release
throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you. And each
of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan.
Lev 25:11 ‘The fiftieth year is a Jubilee to you. Do not sow, nor reap what
grows of its own, nor gather from its unpruned vine.
Lev 25:12 ‘It is a Jubilee, it is set-apart to you. Eat from the field its crops.
Lev 25:13 ‘In the Year of this Jubilee let each one of you return to his
possession.
Lev 25:14 ‘And when you sell whatever to your neighbour or buy from the
hand of your neighbour, do not exploit one another.
Lev 25:15 ‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee you buy from
your neighbour, and according to the number of years of crops he sells to you.
Lev 25:16 ‘According to the greater number of years you increase its price,
and according to the fewer number of years you diminish its price, because
he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.
Lev 25:17 ‘And do not oppress one another, but you shall fear your Elohim.
For I am יהוה your Elohim.
Lev 25:18 ‘And you shall do My laws and guard My right-rulings, and shall
do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety,
Lev 25:19 ‘and the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction,
and shall dwell there in safety.
Lev 25:20 ‘And since you might say, “What do we eat in the seventh year,
since we do not sow nor gather in our crops?”
Lev 25:21 ‘Therefore I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth
year, and it shall bring forth the crop for three years.
Lev 25:22 ‘And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old crop until
the ninth year. Eat of the old until its crop comes in.
Lev 25:23 ‘And the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is
Mine, for you are sojourners and settlers with Me.
Lev 25:24 ‘And provide for a redemption for the land, in all the land of your
possession.
Lev 25:25 ‘When your brother becomes poor, and has sold some of his
possession, and his redeemer, a close relative comes to redeem it, then he
shall redeem what his brother sold.
Lev 25:26 ‘And when the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself
becomes able to redeem it,
Lev 25:27 then let him count the years since its sale, and return the
remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he shall return to his
possession.
Lev 25:28 ‘And if his hand has not found enough to give back to him, then
what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of
Jubilee. And it shall be released in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his
possession.
Lev 25:29 ‘And when a man sells a house in a walled city, then his right of
redemption shall be at the end of the year after it is sold. His right of
redemption lasts a year.
Lev 25:30 ‘But if it is not redeemed within a complete year, then the house
in the walled city shall be established beyond reclaim to the buyer of it,
throughout his generations. It is not released in the Jubilee.
Lev 25:31 ‘The houses of villages, however, which have no wall around
them are reckoned as the field of the country. A right of redemption belongs
to it, and they are released in the Jubilee.
Lev 25:32 ‘As for the cities of the Lĕwites, and the houses in the cities of
their possession, the Lĕwites have a right of redemption forever.
Lev 25:33 ‘And that which is redeemed from the Lĕwites, both the sale of a
house and the city of his possession shall be released in the Year of Jubilee,
because the houses in the cities of the Lĕwites are their possession in the
midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Lev 25:34 ‘But the field of the open land of their cities is not sold, for it is
their everlasting possession.
Lev 25:35 ‘And when your brother becomes poor, and his hand has failed
with you, then you shall sustain him, and he shall live with you, like a
stranger or a sojourner.
Lev 25:36 ‘Take no interest from him, or profit, but you shall fear your
Elohim, and your brother shall live with you.
Lev 25:37 ‘Do not lend him your silver on interest, and do not lend him your
food for profit.
Lev 25:38 ‘I am יהוה your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of
Mitsrayim, to give you the land of Kena‛an, to be your Elohim.
Lev 25:39 ‘And when your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and
sells himself to you, do not make him serve as a slave.
Lev 25:40 ‘But as a hired servant, as a settler he is with you, and serves you
until the Year of Jubilee.
Lev 25:41 ‘And then he shall leave you, he and his children with him, and
shall return to his own clan, even return to the possession of his fathers.
Lev 25:42 ‘For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of
Mitsrayim, they are not sold as slaves.
Lev 25:43 ‘Do not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your
Elohim.
Lev 25:44 ‘And your male and female slaves whom you have from the
nations that are around you, from them you buy male and female slaves,
Lev 25:45 and also from the sons of the strangers sojourning among you,
from them you buy, and from their clans who are with you, which they shall
bring forth in your land, and they shall be your property.
Lev 25:46 ‘And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after
you, to inherit them as a possession, they are your slaves for all time. But
over your brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕl, you do not rule with harshness,
one over another.
Lev 25:47 ‘Now when a sojourner or a settler with you becomes rich, and
your brother with him becomes poor, and sells himself to the settler or
sojourner with you, or to a member of the sojourner’s clan,
Lev 25:48 after he has been sold, there is a right of redemption to him – one
of his brothers does redeem him,
Lev 25:49 or his uncle or his uncle’s son does redeem him, or anyone who is
a close relative to him in his clan does redeem him, or if he is able, then he
shall redeem himself.
Lev 25:50 ‘And 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; as the days of a hired servant it is with
him.
Lev 25:51 ‘If there are yet many years, according to them he repays the price
of his redemption, from the silver of his purchase.
Lev 25:52 ‘And if few years are left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall
reckon with him, and according to his years he repays him the price of his
redemption.
Lev 25:53 ‘He is with him as a yearly hired servant, and he does not rule
with harshness over him before your eyes.
Lev 25:54 ‘And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be
released in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.
Lev 25:55 ‘Because the children of Yisra’ĕl are servants to Me, they are My
servants whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am יהוה your Elohim.