Chapter 25
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And you shall count for yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and they shall be for you days of seven sabbaths of the years, forty-nine years.
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You shall make a shofar of teruah pass in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, on the Day of Atonement; you shall make a shofar pass throughout your land.
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You shall sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It is a jubilee for you. You shall return, each man to his holding and each man to his family. You shall dwell.
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Jubilee: it is the year of the fiftieth year; it will be to you. You shall not sow nor reap its aftergrowth nor harvest its corners.
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For it is a Jubilee; it will be holy to you. You shall eat its produce from the field.
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In the year of the Jubilee, you shall return this, every man to his possession.
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And if you sell something to your fellow or buy from the hand of your fellow, do not oppress a man, his brother.
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According to the number of years after the Jubilee, you shall buy from your fellow; according to the number of years of produce, he shall sell to you.
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According to the abundance of the years you shall increase his purchase, and according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish his purchase, for it is according to the number of its produce that he sold it to you.
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You shall not oppress your fellow citizen, but fear your God, for I am the LORD your God.
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And you shall do my statutes and my judgments you shall keep, and you shall do them, and you shall dwell on the land securely.
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And the land will give its fruit, and you will eat to satisfaction, and you will live securely on it.
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And if you say, "What will we eat in the seventh year? Behold, we will not sow, nor gather our harvest."
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I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it will make the produce for three years.
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You shall sow in the eighth year and eat from the old harvest until the ninth year; until its harvest comes, you shall eat the old harvest.
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And the earth shall not be sold permanently because the earth is mine, because strangers and residents you are with me.
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And in all the land of your possession, you shall provide redemption for the land.
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If your brother becomes poor and sells his possession, and his kinsman-redeemer, who is near to him, comes and redeems his brother's sale.
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And if a man has no kinsman-redeemer, and his hand attains and finds enough for his redemption—
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And he shall calculate the years from his sale and return the excess to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his possession.
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And if his hand does not find enough to return it to him, then his sale shall be in the hand of the one who bought him until the year of Jubilee, and he shall go out in the Jubilee and return to his hereditary possession.
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And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then its redemption shall stand until the completion of the year of his selling; its redemption shall be days.
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And if it is not redeemed until the completion of a complete year for him, then the house that is in the walled city shall stand as permanent property to its acquirer for his generations; it shall not go out in the Jubilee.
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And the houses of the courtyards which have no wall around them on the field of the land shall be reckoned as having redemption; it shall be his, and in the Jubilee it shall go out.
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And the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities, their holding—a redemption forever shall be for the Levites.
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And that which is redeemed from the Levites and goes out from the sale of a house and city—their possession in the Jubilee, for the houses of the Levites' cities—is their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel.
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The fields of the pasturelands around their cities shall not be sold, for that is their everlasting possession.
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And if your brother becomes poor and his hand fails with you, then you shall strengthen him as a resident alien and sojourner, and he shall live with you.
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Do not take interest or profit from him, but fear your God, so that your brother may live among you.
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You shall not lend your silver to him at interest, and you shall not give your food for profit.
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I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
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And if your brother becomes poor with you and is sold to you, you shall not work him with servitude of a slave.
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He shall be with you as a hired servant, as a resident alien, until the year of Jubilee. He shall serve with you.
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and he goes out from your people—he and his sons with him—and he returns to his family and to the holding of his fathers.
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For they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as a slave is sold.
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You shall not rule over him with ruthless oppression, and you shall fear your God.
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And your servant and your maidservant, who will be to you from the nations who are around you—from them you shall buy a servant and a maidservant.
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And also from the sons of the resident aliens, the sojourners with you, from them you shall buy, and from their families that are with you, that they have begotten in your land, and they shall be to you as property.
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You shall take possession of them for your sons after you as an inherited holding forever; in them you shall serve, but in your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man with his brother—you shall not rule over him with rigor.
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If the hand of a resident alien or settler with you attains wealth, and your poor brother with him is sold to a resident alien settler with you or to an indentured servant of a resident alien's family.
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After he is sold, redemption will be to him—one from his brothers will redeem him.
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or his uncle or his uncle's son redeems him, or anyone from the remnant of his flesh from his family redeems him, or his hand attains it and he is redeemed.
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And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year that he was sold to him until the year of the Jubilee, and the silver of his sale shall be according to the number of years. It shall be with him as the days of a hired servant.
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If there are yet many years, he shall return his redemption from the silver of his purchase-property.
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And if few years remain until the year of Jubilee, he shall calculate for him according to his years; he shall return his kinsman redemption.
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Like a hired worker, year by year he shall be with him. He shall not rule him with ruthless oppression before your eyes.
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And if he is not redeemed by these, then he shall go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his sons with him.
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For the sons of Israel are my servants; they are my servants, whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.