| International Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1The LORD told Moses on Mount Sinai, | 1The LORD then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying, |
| 2"Tell the Israelis that when you enter the land that I'm about to give you, you are to let the land observe a Sabbath to the LORD. | 2"Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the LORD. |
| 3For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce. | 3'Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, |
| 4But the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of rest for the land—a Sabbath for the LORD. You are not to plant your field or prune your vineyard. | 4but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. |
| 5You are not to gather what grows from the spilled kernels of your crops. You are not to pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines. Let it be a year of Sabbath for the land. | 5'Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year. |
| 6You may take the Sabbath produce of the land for your food—you, your male and maid servants, your hired laborers, and the resident alien with you. | 6All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you. |
| 7The cattle and the wild animals in your land—everything it produces—are for your food. | 7'Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat. |
| 8"Count for yourselves seven years of Sabbaths—seven times seven years. This set of seven weeks of years total 49 years for you. | 8You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. |
| 9Sound a horn on the tenth day of the seventh month of this fiftieth year. Likewise, on the Day of Atonement, sound the horn throughout your land. | 9'You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. |
| 10Set aside and consecrate the fiftieth year to declare liberty throughout the land for all of its inhabitants. It is to be a jubilee for you. Every person is to return to his own land that he has inherited. Likewise, every person is to return to his tribe. | 10'You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. |
| 11The fiftieth year is to be a year of jubilee for you. You are not to sow or harvest the spilled kernels that grow of themselves or pick grapes from the untrimmed vines | 11You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines. |
| 12because it's the jubilee—it's sacred for you. But you may eat its produce from the field. | 12'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field. |
| 13"During this year of jubilee, each person is to return to his own land that he has inherited. | 13'On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property. |
| 14So if you had sold property to a neighbor or had acquired land from your neighbor, you are not to cheat one another. | 14'If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another. |
| 15According to the number of years after the jubilee, you may buy from your neighbor. And according to the number of years with crops, he may sell to you. | 15'Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops. |
| 16If the number of years after the jubilee is more, increase the selling price. If the number of years after the jubilee is few, decrease its selling price, because he's selling to you according to the potential production volume of the land. | 16In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you. |
| 17No one is to cheat his neighbor. Instead, you are to fear your God, because I am the LORD your God. | 17'So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God. |
| 18"Observe my statutes and keep my ordinances. Do them so that you may live securely in the land. | 18'You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land. |
| 19Then the land will yield its fruit and you'll eat to your satisfaction and live securely. | 19'Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it. |
| 20"Now if you ask, 'What will we eat during the seventh year? After all, we may not plant or even gather our produce!' | 20'But if you say, "What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?" |
| 21I'll command my blessing on you during the sixth year so that it will yield produce for three years! | 21then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years. |
| 22That way, you are to sow in the eighth year, eating the produce from the old harvest. Until the ninth year when its produce comes in, you'll eat from the old harvest." | 22When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in. |
| 23"The land is not to be sold with any finality, because the land belongs to me. You're sojourners and travelers with me. | 23The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me. |
| 24So throughout all of your land inheritance, grant the right of redemption for the land. | 24'Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land. |
| 25"If your brother becomes so poor that he has to a sell portion of his inheritance, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother has sold. | 25'If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold. |
| 26If a person doesn't have a kinsman redeemer, but has become rich and found sufficient means for his redemption, | 26'Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption, |
| 27then let him account for the years for which it was sold, return the excess to the person to whom it was sold, and then return to his property. | 27then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property. |
| 28If he's not able to redeem it back for himself, then what he sold is to remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee, it is to be returned so he may return to his property. | 28'But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property. |
| 29"If a person sells a residential house in a walled city, he is to redeem it within the year in which it was sold. He may have right to its redemption for a full year. | 29'Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year. |
| 30But if it's not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house next to which is a wall is to belong in perpetuity to the one who bought it throughout his generations. It is not to be returned in the jubilee. | 30'But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee. |
| 31However, the houses in the villages that don't have walls around them are to be categorized along with the fields of the land—they may be redeemed and returned in the jubilee. | 31'The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall shall be considered as open fields; they have redemption rights and revert in the jubilee. |
| 32Nevertheless, the cities that belong to the descendants of Levi—that is, the houses in the cities that belong to them—are to belong to the descendants of Levi perpetually as part of their right of redemption. | 32'As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession. |
| 33If someone from the descendants of Levi redeems the houses in the cities that they own, they are to be returned in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the descendants of Levi are to remain their property among the Israelis. | 33'What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel. |
| 34Also, the open land of their cities is not to be sold, because it is to remain their perpetual inheritance." | 34'But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession. |
| 35"If your relative becomes so poor that he is indebted to you, then you are to support him. You are to let him live with you just like the resident alien and the traveler. | 35'Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. |
| 36You are not to take interest or profit from him. Instead, you are to fear your God and let your relative live with you. | 36'Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you. |
| 37You are not to loan him money with interest or sell him your food at a profit. | 37'You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain. |
| 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 of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. |
| 39"If your brother with you becomes so poor that he sells himself to you, you are not to make him serve like a bond slave. | 39'If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave's service. |
| 40Instead, he is to serve with you like a hired servant or a traveler who lives with you, until the year of jubilee. | 40'He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee. |
| 41Then he and his children with him may leave to return to his family and his ancestor's inheritance. | 41'He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers. |
| 42Since they're my servants whom I've brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves. | 42For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale. |
| 43You are not to rule over them with harshness. You are to fear your God." | 43'You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God. |
| 44"As for your male and maid slaves who will be with you, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations. | 44'As for your male and female slaves whom you may have-- you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you. |
| 45You may also buy from resident aliens who live among you and their families who are with you, whom they fathered in your land. They may become your property. | 45Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession. |
| 46You may give them as inherited property to your children after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israeli with harshness. | 46'You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another. |
| 47"If a resident alien or traveler becomes rich, but your relative who lives next to him is so poor that he sells himself to that resident alien or traveler among you or to a member of the resident alien's family, | 47'Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger's family, |
| 48he has the right to be redeemed after he sells himself. One of his brothers may redeem him. | 48then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him, |
| 49His uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him or any blood relative from his tribe may redeem him. If he becomes rich, then he may redeem himself. | 49or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself. |
| 50"He is to bring an accounting to the one who bought him, starting from the year he had sold himself until the year of jubilee. The price of his sale is to correspond to the number of years comparable to the time a hired servant stays with him. | 50He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him. |
| 51If there are still many years left, he is to refund the cost of his redemption. | 51'If there are still many years, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption; |
| 52But if only a few years are left until the year of jubilee, he is to bring an accounting of the years that he is to refund for his redemption. | 52and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption. |
| 53Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity. | 53'Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight. |
| 54If he isn't redeemed by these, then he is to be set free in the year of jubilee—he and his children with him— | 54Even if he is not redeemed by these means, he shall still go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him. |
| 55because the Israelis are my servants. They're my servants, since I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God." | 55'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. |
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