The Jubilee. CHAP. XXV. neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done unto him: 20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. 21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. Of oppression. 13 In the year of this jubilee ye return every man unto his possession. shall 14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buyest aught of thy neigh bour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neigh 22 Ye shall have one manner of law, as bour, and according unto the number of well for the stranger, as for one of your own years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: country: for I am the LORD your God. 16 According to the multitude of years 23 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses. CHAP. XXV. AND ND the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for am the LORD your God. I 18 ¶ Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sab-eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not bath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for sow nor gather in our increase: the LORD. thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its ows accord of thy harvest, thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed for it is a year of rest unto the land. : 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. 23 The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast ye shall grant a redemption for the land. that are in thy land, shall all the increase 25 ¶ If thy brother be waxen poor, and thereof be meat. hath sold away some of his possession, and 8 T And thou shalt number seven sab-if any of his kin come to redeem it, then baths of years unto thee, seven times seven shall he redeem that which his brother sold. years; and the space of the seven sabbaths 26 And if the man have none to redeem of years shall be unto thee forty and nine it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the jubilee to sound, on the tenth day of the man to whom he sold it; that he may the seventh month, in the day of atone- return unto his possession. ment shall ye make the trumpet sound 28 But if he be not able to restore it to throughout all your land. him, then that which is sold shall remain 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, in the hand of him that hath bought it until proclaim liberty throughout all the the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall go out, and he shall return unto his shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall possession. return every man unto his possession, and 29 ¶ And if a man sell a dwelling-house ye shall return every man unto his family. in a walled city, then he may redeem it 11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be within a whole year after it is sold: within unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap a full year may he redeem it. that which groweth of itself in it, nor ga- 30 And if it be not redeemed within the ther the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. space of a full year, then the house that is 12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy in the walled city shall be established for unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof everto him that bought it, throughout his geout of the field. nerations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. Of compassion. LEVITICUS. A blessing promised. 31 But the houses of the villages which wax rich by thee, and thy brother that have no walls round about them, shall be dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himcounted as the fields of the country: they self unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, may be redeemed, and they shall go out in or to the stock of the stranger's family: the jubilee. 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin 33 And if a man purchase of the Le- unto him of his family may redeem him; vites, then the house that was sold, and the or if he be able, he may redeem himself. city of his possession shall go out in the 50 And he shall reckon with him that year of jubilee; for the houses of the cities bought him, from the year that he was sold of the Levites are their possession among to him, unto the year of jubilee and the the children of Israel. price of his sale shall be according unto 34 But the field of the suburbs of their the number of years, according to the time cities may not be sold, for it is their per- of a hired servant shall it be with him. petual possession. 51 If there be yet many years behind, 35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, according unto them he shall give again and fallen in decay with thee; then thou the price of his redemption out of the shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stran- money that he was bought for. ger, or a sojourner; that he may live with 52 And if there remain but few years thee. unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count 36 Take thou no usury of him, or in- with him, and according unto his years crease; but fear thy God; that thy brother shall he give him again the price of his remay live with thee. demption. increase. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 38 I am the LORD your God, which 54 And if he be not redeemed in these brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, years, then he shall go out in the year of to give you the land of Canaan, and to be jubilee, both he, and his children with him. your God. 55 For unto me the children of Israel 39 ¶ And if thy brother that dwelleth by are servants, they are my servants whom thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: thou shalt not compel him to serve as a I am the LORD your God. bond-servant: 40 But as a hired servant, and as a so- E CHAP. XXVI. Ye shall make you no idols nor graven journer he shall be with thee, and shall image, neither rear you up a standing serve thee unto the year of jubilee: image, neither shall ye set up any image 41 And then shall he depart from thee, of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: both he and his children with him, and for I am the LORD your God. shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bond-men. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour, but shalt fear thy God. 2 ¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD. 3 If ye walk in my statutes and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit: 44 Both thy bond-men, and thy bond- 5 And your threshing shall reach unto maids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the the vintage, and the vintage shall reach heathen that are round about you; of them unto the sowing-time; and ye shall eat shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids. your bread to the full, and dwell in your 45 Moreover of the children of the stran-land safely. gers that do sojourn among you, of them 6 And I will give peace in the land, and shall ye buy, and of their families that are ye shall lie down, and none shall make you with you, which they begat in your land: afraid and I will rid evil beasts out of and they shall be your possession. the land, neither shall the sword go through : 46 And ye shall take them as an in- your land. heritance for your children after you, to in- 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and herit them for a possession, they shall be they shall fall before you by the sword. your bond-men for ever: but over your 8 And five of you shall chase a hunbrethren the children of Israel, ye shall dred, and a hundred of you shall put ten not rule one over another with rigour. thousand to flight: and your enemies shall 47 ¶ And if a sojourner or a stranger fall before you by the sword. |