Leviticus 25

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NOVA VULGATA
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying:	1 Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in monte Sinai di cens:
2 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you will have entered into the land which I will give to you, rest on the Sabbath of the Lord.	2 “ Loquere filiis Israel et dices ad eos: Quando ingressi fueritis terram, quam ego dabo vobis, sabbatizet terra sabbatum Domino.
3 For six years you shall sow your field, and for six years you shall care for your vineyard, and you shall gather its fruits.	3 Sex annis seres agrum tuum et sex annis putabis vineam tuam colligesque fructus eius;
4 But in the seventh year, there shall be a Sabbath of the land, a resting of the Lord. You shall not sow your field, and you shall not care for your vineyard.	4 septimo autem anno, sabbatum requietionis erit terrae, sabbatum Domino: agrum tuum non seres et vineam tuam non putabis.
5 What the soil shall spontaneously produce, you shall not harvest. And you shall not gather the grapes of the first-fruits as a crop. For it is a year of rest for the land.	5 Quae sponte gignit humus, non metes et uvas vineae tuae non putatae non colliges quasi vindemiam; annus enim requietionis erit terrae.
6 But these shall be yours for food, for you and for your men and women servants, and for your hired hands, and for the newcomers who sojourn with you:	6 Et erit sabbatum terrae vobis in cibum: tibi et servo tuo, ancillae et mercennario tuo et advenis, qui peregrinantur apud te,
7 all that grows on its own shall provide food for your beasts and cattle.	7 iumentis tuis et animalibus, quae in terra tua sunt, omnia, quae nascuntur, praebebunt cibum.
8 You shall also number for yourselves seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which together makes forty-nine years.	8 Numerabis quoque tibi septem hebdomadas annorum, id est septem septies, quae simul faciunt annos quadraginta novem;
9 And you shall sound the trumpet in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, at the time of the atonement, throughout all your land.	9 et clanges bucina mense septimo, decima die mensis expiationis die clangetis tuba in universa terra vestra.
10 And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a remission for all the inhabitants of your land: for the same is the Jubilee. A man shall return to his possession, and each one shall go back to his original family,	10 Sanctificabitisque annum quinquagesimum et vocabitis remissionem in terra cunctis habitatoribus eius: ipse est enim iobeleus. Revertemini unusquisque ad possessionem suam, et unusquisque rediet ad familiam pristinam.
11 for it is the Jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows in the field of its own accord, and you shall not gather the first-fruits of the crop,	11 Iobeleus erit vobis quinquagesimus annus. Non seretis neque metetis sponte in agro nascentia neque vineas non putatas vindemiabitis
12 due to the sanctification of the Jubilee. But you shall eat them as they present themselves.	12 ob sanctificationem iobelei; sed de agro statim ablatas comedetis fruges.
13 In the year of the Jubilee, all shall return to their possessions.	13 Hoc anno iobelei rediet unusquisque vestrum ad possessionem suam.
14 When you will sell anything to your fellow citizen, or buy anything from him, do not cause your brother grief, but buy from him according to the number of years from the Jubilee,	14 Quando vendes quippiam civi tuo vel emes ab eo, ne contristet unusquisque fratrem suum; sed iuxta numerum annorum post iobeleum emes ab eo,
15 and he shall sell to you according to the computation of the produce.	15 et iuxta supputationem annorum frugum vendet tibi.
16 The more years that will remain after the Jubilee, the more the price shall increase, and the less the time is numbered, so much less shall the purchase price be. For he will sell to you the time for the produce.	16 Quanto plures anni remanserint post iobeleum, tanto crescet et pretium; et quanto minus temporis numeraveris, tanto minoris et emptio constabit: tempus enim frugum vendet tibi.
17 Do be willing to afflict your countrymen, but let each one fear his God. For I am the Lord your God.	17 Nolite affligere contribules vestros, sed timeas Deum tuum, quia ego Dominus Deus vester.
18 Accomplish my precepts, and observe my judgments, and complete them, so that you may be able to live in the land without any fear,	18 Facite praecepta mea et iudicia, custodite et implete ea, ut habitare possitis in terra absque ullo pavore,
19 and so that the soil may produce its fruits for you, from which you may eat, even to fullness, dreading violence by no one.	19 et gignat vobis humus fructus suos, quibus vescamini usque ad saturitatem, et habitabitis super terram, nullius impetum formidantes.
20 But if you will say: What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and do not gather our produce?	20 Quod si dixeritis: "Quid comedemus anno septimo, si non seruerimus neque collegerimus fruges nostras?".
21 I will give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce of three years.	21 Dabo benedictionem meam vobis anno sexto, et faciet fructus trium annorum,
22 And in the eighth year you shall sow, but you shall eat from the old produce, until the ninth year, until what is new matures, you shall eat what is old.	22 seretisque anno octavo et comedetis veteres fruges usque ad nonum annum; donec nova nascantur, edetis vetera.
23 Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.	23 Terra quoque non veniet in perpetuum, quia mea est, et vos advenae et coloni mei estis.
24 Therefore, every region of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption.	24 Unde cuncta regio possessionis vestrae sub redemptionis condicione a vobis vendetur.
25 If your brother, being in need, will have sold his little possession and his close relative is willing, he is able to redeem what he had sold.	25 Si attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit partem possessionis suae, veniet ut redemptor propinquus eius, et redimet, quod ille vendiderat.
26 But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,	26 Sin autem non habuerit redemptorem et ipse pretium ad redimendum potuerit invenire,
27 the produce shall be calculated from that time when he sold it. And what is lacking, he shall repay to the buyer, and so he shall receive his possession.	27 computabuntur fructus ex eo tempore, quo vendidit; et, quod reliquum est, reddet emptori sicque recipiet possessionem suam.
28 But if his hand will not have discovered a way to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the Jubilee. For in that year all that has been sold shall return to the owner, and to the original possessor.	28 Quod si non invenerit manus eius, ut reddat pretium, habebit emptor, quod emerat, usque ad annum iobeleum. In ipso enim omnis venditio rediet ad dominum et ad possessorem pristinum.
29 Whoever will have sold a house within the walls of a city shall have the freedom to redeem it, until one year has been completed.	29 Qui vendiderit domum intra urbis muros, habebit licentiam redimendi, donec unus impleatur annus.
30 If he has not redeemed it, and the year will have turned full circle, the buyer and his posterity shall possess it, in perpetuity, and it is not able to be redeemed, even in the Jubilee.	30 Si non redemerit, et anni circulus fuerit evolutus, emptor possidebit eam et posteri eius in perpetuum; et redimi non poterit, etiam in iobeleo.
31 But if the house is in a village, which has no walls, it shall be sold by the law of the fields. If it has not been redeemed beforehand, then in the Jubilee it shall return to the owner.	31 Sin autem in villa fuerit domus, quae muros non habet, agrorum iure vendetur: potest redimi et in iobeleo revertetur ad dominum.
32 The buildings of the Levites, which are in the cities, are always able to be redeemed.	32 Aedes Levitarum, quae in urbibus possessionis eorum sunt, semper possunt ab eis redimi.
33 If they have not been redeemed, then in the Jubilee they shall return to the owners, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possession among the sons of Israel.	33 Si autem quis redemerit a Levitis, domus et urbs in iobeleo revertentur ad dominos; quia domus urbium leviticarum pro possessionibus eorum sunt inter filios Israel.
34 But let not their suburbs be sold, for it is an everlasting possession.	34 Suburbana autem pascua eorum non venient, quia possessio sempiterna est eis.
35 If your brother has become impoverished, or infirm of hand, and you take him in, like a newcomer or a sojourner, and he lives with you,	35 Si attenuatus fuerit frater tuus, et infirma manus eius apud te, suscipies eum quasi advenam et peregrinum, et vivet tecum.
36 do not accept usury from him, nor anything more than what you gave. Fear your God, so that your brother may be able to live with you.	36 Ne accipias usuras ab eo nec amplius quam dedisti: time Deum tuum, ut vivere possit frater tuus apud te.
37 You shall not give him your money by usury, nor exact from him an overabundance of produce.	37 Pecuniam tuam non dabis ei ad usuram nec plus aequo exiges pro cibo tuo.
38 I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, so that I might give to you the land of Canaan, and so that I may be your God.	38 Ego Dominus Deus vester, qui eduxi vos de terra Aegypti, ut darem vobis terram Chanaan et essem vester Deus.
39 If your brother, having been compelled by poverty, will have sold himself to you, you shall not oppress him with the servitude of indentured servants.	39 Si paupertate compulsus vendiderit se tibi frater tuus, non eum opprimes servitute servorum,
40 But he shall be like a hired hand or a settler; he shall work with you, until the year of the Jubilee.	40 sed quasi mercennarius et colonus erit tecum. Usque ad annum iobeleum operabitur apud te
41 And after that, he shall depart with his children, and he shall return to his kindred, to the possession of his fathers.	41 et postea egredietur cum liberis suis et revertetur ad cognationem suam et ad possessionem patrum suorum.
42 For these are my servants, and I led them away from the land of Egypt; let them not be sold into the condition of servitude.	42 Mei enim servi sunt, et ego eduxi eos de terra Aegypti: non venient condicione servorum;
43 Do not afflict him by power, but be fearful of your God.	43 ne affligas eum per po tentiam, sed metuito Deum tuum.
44 Let your male and female servants be from the nations which are all around you,	44 Servus et ancilla sint tibi de nationibus, quae in circuitu vestro sunt; de illis emetis servum et ancillam.
45 and from the newcomers who sojourn with you, or who have been born from them in your land. These you shall have as servants,	45 De filiis quoque advenarum, qui peregrinantur apud vos, emetis et de cognatione eorum, quae est apud vos et quam genuerint in terra vestra, hos habebitis in possessionem
46 and, by the right of inheritance, you shall transmit them to your posterity, and you shall possess them forever. But do not oppress your brothers, the sons of Israel, by power.	46 et hereditario iure transmittetis ad posteros ac possidebitis in aeternum ut servos; fratres autem vestros filios Israel ne opprimatis cum potentia.
47 If the hand of a newcomer or a sojourner will have grown strong among you, and your brother, having become impoverished, will have sold himself to him, or to any of his stock,	47 Si invaluerit apud vos manus advenae atque peregrini, et attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit se ei aut cuiquam de stirpe eius,
48 after the sale, he is able to be redeemed. Whoever is willing among his brothers shall redeem him:	48 post venditionem potest redimi. Unus ex fratribus suis redimet eum
49 either the paternal uncle, or the paternal uncle’s son, or his close relative, by blood or by affinity. But if he himself will be able also, he shall redeem himself,	49 et patruus et patruelis et consanguineus et affinis. Sin autem et ipse potuerit, redimat se,
50 considering only the years from the time of his selling until the year of the Jubilee, and calculating the money for which he was sold, according to the number of years and the accounting of a hired hand.	50 supputatis dumtaxat cum emptore annis a tempore venditionis suae usque ad annum iobeleum, et pecunia, qua venditus fuerat, iuxta annorum numerum et rationem mercennarii supputata.
51 If there will have been many years which remain until the Jubilee, according to these shall he also repay the price.	51 Si plures fuerint anni, qui remanent usque ad iobeleum, secundum hos reddet et pretium redemptionis de pecunia emptionis;
52 If few, he shall determine the accounting with him according to the number of years, and he shall repay to the buyer by what is left remaining of the years;	52 si pauci, ponet rationem cum eo; iuxta annorum numerum reddet emptori, quod reliquum est annorum,
53 his wages being charged by what served before. He shall not afflict him violently in your sight.	53 quibus ante servivit, mercedibus mercennarii imputatis. Non affliget eum violenter in conspectu tuo.
54 But if, by these means, he will not be able to be redeemed, then in the year of the Jubilee he shall depart with his children.	54 Quod si per haec redimi non potuerit, anno iobeleo egredietur cum liberis suis:
55 For they are my servants, the sons of Israel, whom I led away from the land of Egypt.	55 mei sunt enim servi filii Israel, quos eduxi de terra Aegypti. Ego Dominus Deus vester ”.