Leviticus 25-26New King James Version (NKJV)
The Sabbath of the Seventh Year
25 And the Lord spoke to Moses on
Mount Sinai, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of
Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then
the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord. 3 Six
years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard,
and gather its fruit; 4 but in the seventh year
there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to
the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5 What
grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the
grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the
land. 6 And the sabbath produce of
the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your
hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you, 7 for
your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its
produce shall be for food.
The Year of Jubilee
8 ‘And you shall count seven sabbaths
of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven
sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 9 Then
you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of
the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound
throughout all your land. 10 And you shall
consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the
land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you
shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his
family. 11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to
you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor
gather the grapes of your untended vine. 12 For
it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its
produce from the field.
13 ‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of
you shall return to his possession. 14 And if you
sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not
oppress one another. 15 According to the number of
years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the
number of years of crops he shall sell to you. 16 According
to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the
fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to
the number of the years of the crops. 17 Therefore
you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your
God.
Provisions for the Seventh Year
18 ‘So you shall observe My statutes
and keep My judgments, and perform them; and you will dwell in the land in
safety. 19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and
you will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.
20 ‘And if you say, “What shall we
eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our
produce?” 21 Then I will command My blessing on you
in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three
years. 22 And you shall sow in the eighth year, and
eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall
eat of the old harvest.
Redemption of Property
23 ‘The land shall not be sold
permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers
and sojourners with Me. 24 And in all the land of
your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.
25 ‘If one of your brethren becomes
poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his
redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother
sold. 26 Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but
he himself becomes able to redeem it, 27 then let
him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to
whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. 28 But
if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what
was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of
Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his
possession.
29 ‘If a man sells a house in a
walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a
full year he may redeem it. 30 But if it is not
redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city
shall belong permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It
shall not be released in the Jubilee. 31 However
the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the
fields of the country. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the
Jubilee. 32 Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the
houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any
time. 33 And if a man purchases a house from the
Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be
released in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their
possession among the children of Israel. 34 But the
field of the common-land of their cities may not be sold, for it is their
perpetual possession.
Lending to the Poor
35 ‘If one of your brethren becomes
poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a
stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. 36 Take
no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live
with you. 37 You shall not lend him your money for
usury, nor lend him your food at a profit. 38 I 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.
The Law Concerning Slavery
39 ‘And if one of your
brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to
you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. 40 As
a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall
serve you until the Year of Jubilee. 41 And then he
shall depart from you—he and his children with him—and shall return to his own
family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers. 42 For
they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt;
they shall not be sold as slaves. 43 You shall not
rule over him with rigor, but you shall fear your God. 44 And
as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the nations that are
around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 45 Moreover
you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their
families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become
your property. 46 And you may take them as an
inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a
possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren,
the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with rigor.
47 ‘Now if a sojourner or stranger
close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who
dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or
sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, 48 after
he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him; 49 or
his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him; or anyone who is
near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem
himself. 50 Thus he shall reckon with him who
bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number of years,
from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it
shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him. 51 If there
are still many years remaining, according to them he shall
repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was
bought. 52 And if there remain but a few years
until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according
to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption. 53 He
shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule with rigor
over him in your sight. 54 And if he is not
redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the Year of
Jubilee—he and his children with him. 55 For the
children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My
servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your
God.
Promise of Blessing and Retribution
26 ‘You shall not make idols for yourselves;
neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar
shall you rear up for yourselves;
nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow
down to it;
for I am the Lord your God.
2 You shall keep My Sabbaths and
reverence My sanctuary:
I am the Lord.
3 ‘If you walk in My statutes and
keep My commandments, and perform them,
4 then I will give you rain in its
season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall
yield their fruit.
5 Your threshing shall last till the
time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing;
you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land
safely.
6 I will give peace in the land, and
you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid;
I will rid the land of evil beasts,
and the sword will not go through your land.
7 You will chase your enemies, and
they shall fall by the sword before you.
8 Five of you shall chase a hundred,
and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;
your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.
9 ‘For I will look on you favorably
and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.
10 You shall eat the old harvest, and
clear out the old because of the new.
11 I will set My tabernacle among
you, and My soul shall not abhor you.
12 I will walk among you and be your
God, and you shall be My people.
13 I am the Lord your
God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should
not be their slaves;
I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk
upright.
14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do
not observe all these commandments,
15 and if you despise My statutes, or
if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My
commandments, but break My covenant,
16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and
fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart.
And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall
eat it.
17 I will set My face against you,
and you shall be defeated by your enemies.
Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee
when no one pursues you.
18 ‘And after all this, if you do not
obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
19 I will break the pride of your
power;
I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like
bronze.
20 And your strength shall be spent
in vain;
for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the
trees of the land yield their fruit.
21 ‘Then, if you walk contrary to Me,
and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues,
according to your sins.
22 I will also send wild beasts among
you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you
few in number;
and your highways shall be desolate.
23 ‘And if by these things you are
not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to Me,
24 then I also will walk contrary to
you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
25 And I will bring a sword against
you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities I will
send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 When I have cut off your supply of
bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back
your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 ‘And after all this, if you do not
obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28 then I also will walk contrary to
you in fury;
and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 You shall eat the flesh of your
sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 I will destroy your high places,
cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of
your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you.
31 I will lay your cities waste and
bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of
your sweet aromas.
32 I will bring the land to
desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33 I will scatter you among the
nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
34 Then the land shall enjoy its
sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your
enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies
desolate it shall rest—
for the time it did not rest on your sabbaths when you dwelt
in it.
36 ‘And as for those of you who are
left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they
shall fall when no one pursues.
37 They shall stumble over one
another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;
and you shall have no power to stand before
your enemies.
38 You shall perish among the
nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And those of you who are left
shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;
also in their fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they
shall waste away.
40 ‘But if they confess
their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in
which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to
Me,
41 and that I also
have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their
enemies;
if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept
their guilt—
42 then I will remember My covenant
with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will
remember;
I will remember the land.
43 The land also shall be left empty
by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they despised My
judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
44 Yet for all that, when they are in
the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them,
to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;
for I am the Lord their God.
45 But for their sake I will remember
the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the
sight of the nations, that I might be their God:
I am the Lord.’”
46 These are the
statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself
and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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