Leviticus 25

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and said:	1 And the Lord spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying:
2 'Speak to the Israelites and say to them: "When you enter the country which I am giving you, the landmust keep a Sabbath's rest for Yahweh.	2 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you shall have entered into the land which I will give you, observe the rest of the sabbath to the Lord.
3 For six years you wil sow your field, for six years you wil prune your vineyard and gather its produce.	3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and shalt gather the fruits thereof:
4 But in the seventh year the land wil have a sabbatical rest, a Sabbath for Yahweh. You wil neithersow your field, nor prune your vineyard,	4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord: thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 nor reap any grain which has grown of its own accord, nor gather the grapes from your untrimmedvine. It wil be a year of rest for the land.	5 What the ground shall bring forth of itself, thou shalt not reap: neither shalt thou gather the grapes of the firstfruits as a vintage: for it is a year of rest to the land:
6 But what the land produces in its Sabbath wil serve to feed you, your slave, male or female, youremployee and your guest residing with you;	6 But they shall be unto you for meat, to thee and to thy manservant, to thy maidservant and thy hireling, and to the strangers that sojourn with thee:
7 for your cattle too, and the wild animals of your country, whatever it produces wil serve as food.	7 All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.
8 "You wil count seven weeks of years -- seven times seven years, that is to say a period of sevenweeks of years, forty-nine years.	8 Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years:
9 And on the tenth day of the seventh month you wil sound the trumpet; on the Day of Expiation you wilsound the trumpet throughout the land.	9 And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.
10 You wil declare this fiftieth year to be sacred and proclaim the liberation of al the country'sinhabitants. You will keep this as a jubilee: each of you wil return to his ancestral property, each to his own clan.	10 And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:
11 This fiftieth year wil be a jubilee year for you; in it you wil not sow, you wil not harvest the grain thathas come up on its own or in it gather grapes from your untrimmed vine.	11 Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines,
12 The jubilee wil be a holy thing for you; during it you wil eat whatever the fields produce.	12 Because of the sanctification of the jubilee: but as they grow you shall presently eat them.
13 "In this year of jubilee, each of you wil return to his ancestral property.	13 In the year of the jubilee all shall return to their possessions.
14 If you buy land from, or sell land to, your fel ow-countryman, neither of you may exploit the other.	14 When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him; grieve not thy brother: but thou shalt buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.
15 In buying from your fel ow-countryman, you will take account of the number of years since the jubilee;the sale-price he fixes for you will depend on the number of productive years still to run.	15 And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.
16 The greater the number of years, the higher the price you wil ask for it; the fewer the number ofyears, the greater the reduction; for what he is sel ing you is a certain number of harvests.	16 The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.
17 So you wil not exploit one another, but fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.	17 Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God: because I am the Lord your God.
18 "Hence, you wil put my laws and customs into practice; you will keep them and put them intopractice, and you wil live securely in the country.	18 Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,
19 The land wil give its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live in security.	19 And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no mall's invasion.
20 "In case you should ask: What shal we eat in this seventh year if we do not sow or harvest ourproduce?	20 But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?
21 I shall order my blessing to be on you in the sixth year, which wil yield you enough produce for threeyears.	21 I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years:
22 You wil have the old produce to eat while you are sowing in the eighth year, and even in the ninthyear, you wil be eating the old produce, while waiting for the harvest of that year.	22 And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.
23 "Land wil not be sold absolutely, for the land belongs to me, and you are only strangers and guestsof mine.	23 The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.
24 You wil al ow a right of redemption over any ancestral property.	24 For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.
25 If your brother becomes impoverished and sel s off part of his ancestral property, his nearest malerelative wil come and exercise his family rights over what his brother has sold.	25 If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will, he may redeem what he had sold.
26 The man who has no one to exercise this right may, once he has found the means to effect theredemption,	26 But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:
27 calculate the number of years that the alienation would have lasted, repay to the purchaser the sumdue for the time stil to run, and so recover his ancestral property.	27 The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it: and the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.
28 If he cannot find the sum in compensation, the property sold will remain in the possession of thepurchaser until the jubilee year. In the jubilee year, the latter wil vacate it and return to his own ancestralproperty.	28 But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.
29 "If anyone sel s a dwel ing house inside a wal ed town, he wil have the right of redemption until theexpiry of the year fol owing the sale. His right of redemption is limited to the year;	29 He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired:
30 and if the redemption has not been effected by the end of the year, the house in the wal ed town wilbecome the property of the purchaser and his descendants in perpetuity; he need not vacate it at the jubilee.	30 If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.
31 But houses in villages not enclosed by wal s wil be considered as situated in the open country; theycarry the right of redemption, and the purchaser wil vacate them at the jubilee.	31 But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields: if it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.
32 "As regards the towns of the Levites, town houses forming part of their ancestral property wil carry aperpetual right of redemption in their favour.	32 The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed:
33 If a Levite is the one to be affected by the right of redemption, at the jubilee he will vacate thepurchased property and return to his own home, to the town in which he has a title to property. The houses in theLevites' towns represent their ancestral property in Israel,	33 If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.
34 and the arable land depending on these towns cannot be sold, being their ancestral property for ever.	34 But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.
35 "If your brother becomes impoverished and cannot support himself in the community, you wil assisthim as you would a stranger or guest, so that he can go on living with you.	35 If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee,
36 Do not charge him interest on a loan, but fear your God, and let your brother live with you.	36 Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.
37 You wil not lend him money on interest or give him food to make a profit out of it.	37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor exact of him any increase of fruits.
38 I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and be yourGod.	38 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your God.
39 "If your brother becomes impoverished while with you and sells himself to you, you will not make himdo the work of a slave;	39 If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants:
40 you wil treat him like an employee or guest, and he wil work for you until the jubilee year.	40 But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee,
41 He wil then leave you, both he and his children, and return to his clan and regain possession of hisancestral property.	41 And afterwards he shall go out with his children, and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers,
42 For they are my servants whom I have brought out of Egypt, and they may not be bought and sold asslaves.	42 For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen:
43 You wil not oppress your brother-Israelites harshly but wil fear your God.	43 Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God.
44 "The male and female slaves you have wil come from the nations round you; from these you maypurchase male and female slaves.	44 Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you.
45 As slaves, you may also purchase the children of aliens resident among you, and also members oftheir families living with you who have been born on your soil; and they will become your property,	45 And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land, these you shall have for servants:
46 and you may leave them as a legacy to your sons after you as their perpetual possession. These youmay have for slaves; but you wil not oppress your brother-Israelites.	46 And by right of inheritance shall leave them to your posterity, and shall possess them for ever. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.
47 "If a stranger or guest living with you gets rich and your brother, in the course of dealings with him,becomes impoverished and sel s himself to this stranger or guest, or to the descendant of a stranger's family,	47 If the hand of a stranger or a sojourner grow strong among you, and thy brother being impoverished sell himself to him, or to any of his race:
48 he wil enjoy the right of redemption after being sold, and one of his brothers may redeem him.	48 After the sale he may be redeemed. He that will of his brethren shall redeem him:
49 His paternal uncle, his uncle's son, or a member of his own family may redeem him; if he has themeans, he may redeem himself.	49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, or his kinsman, by blood, or by affinity. But if he himself be able also, he shall redeem himself,
50 By agreement with his purchaser, he wil count the number of years between the year of sale and thejubilee year; his sale-price will be proportionate to the number of years, his time being valued as that of anemployee.	50 Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant,
51 If there are stil many years to run, in proportion to their number he wil refund part of his sale-price aspayment for his redemption.	51 If there be many years that remain until the jubilee, according to them shall he also repay the price.
52 And if there are only a few years stil to run before the jubilee year, he wil calculate with him whatshould be refunded for his redemption, in proportion to their number,	52 If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years, and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years,
53 as though he were hired by the year. You wil see to it that he is not harshly oppressed.	53 His wages being allowed for which he served before: he shall not afflict him violently in thy sight.
54 "If he has not been redeemed in any of these ways, he wil go free in the jubilee year, both he and hischildren;	54 And if by these means he cannot be redeemed, in the year of the jubilee he shall go out with his children.
55 for the Israelites are my servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of Egypt. I am Yahwehyour God." '	55 For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt.