| English Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, | 1The LORD spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai: |
| 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD. | 2"Speak to the Israelites and tell them, 'When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe 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, | 3Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce, |
| 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. | 4but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest--a Sabbath to the LORD. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard. |
| 5You 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. | 5You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest. |
| 6The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you, | 6You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat--you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, |
| 7and for your cattle and for the wild animals that are in your land: all its yield shall be for food. | 7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land--all its produce will be for you to eat. |
| 8“You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. | 8"'You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years. |
| 9Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. | 9You must sound loud horn blasts--in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement--you must sound the horn in your entire land. |
| 10And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and 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 you shall return to his clan. | 10So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan. |
| 11That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. | 11That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. |
| 12For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field. | 12Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you--you may eat its produce from the field. |
| 13“In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. | 13"'In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property. |
| 14And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. | 14If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother. |
| 15You 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. | 15You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. |
| 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. | 16The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce. |
| 17You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the LORD your God. | 17No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the LORD your God. |
| 18“Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely. | 18You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land. |
| 19The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and dwell in it securely. | 19"'The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, and you may live securely in the land. |
| 20And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ | 20If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?' |
| 21I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. | 21I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years, |
| 22When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives. | 22and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year's produce--old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year's produce, you may eat old produce. |
| 23“The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. | 23The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me. |
| 24And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land. | 24In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land. |
| 25“If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. | 25"'If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold. |
| 26If a man has no one to redeem it and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, | 26If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption, |
| 27let 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. | 27he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property. |
| 28But 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 be released, and he shall return to his property. | 28If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may 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. | 29"'If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year. |
| 30If 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; it shall not be released in the jubilee. | 30If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the jubilee. |
| 31But 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 they shall be released in the jubilee. | 31The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the jubilee. |
| 32As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess. | 32As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption. |
| 33And 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. | 33Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem--the sale of a house which is his property in a city--must revert in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites. |
| 34But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever. | 34Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession. |
| 35“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. | 35"'If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident. |
| 36Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. | 36Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you. |
| 37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. | 37You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit. |
| 38I 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. | 38I 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. |
| 39“If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave: | 39"'If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. |
| 40he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee. | 40He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee, |
| 41Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of his fathers. | 41but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors. |
| 42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. | 42Since they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale. |
| 43You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God. | 43You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God. |
| 44As 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. | 44"'As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you--you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you. |
| 45You 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. | 45Also you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property. |
| 46You 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 you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly. | 46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly. |
| 47“If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and 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, | 47"'If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner's family, |
| 48then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him, | 48after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him, |
| 49or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself. | 49or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or anyone of the rest of his blood relatives--his family--may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself. |
| 50He 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 rated as the time of a hired worker. | 50He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him. |
| 51If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price. | 51If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption, |
| 52If 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. | 52but if only a few years remain until the jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption. |
| 53He shall treat him as a worker hired year by year. He shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight. | 53He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight. |
| 54And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he and his children with him shall be released in the year of jubilee. | 54If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him, |
| 55For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. | 55because the Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. |
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