1 Disse o Senhor a Moisés, no monte Sinai: 2 Fala aos filhos de Israel e dize-lhes: Quando entrardes na terra, que vos dou, então, a terra guardará um sábado ao Senhor. 3 Seis anos semearás o teu campo, e seis anos podarás a tua vinha, e colherás os seus frutos. 4 Porém, no sétimo ano, haverá sábado de descanso solene para a terra, um sábado ao Senhor; não semearás o teu campo, nem podarás a tua vinha. 5 O que nascer de si mesmo na tua seara não segarás e as uvas da tua vinha não podada não colherás; ano de descanso solene será para a terra. 6 Mas os frutos da terra em descanso vos serão por alimento, a ti, e ao teu servo, e à tua serva, e ao teu jornaleiro, e ao estrangeiro que peregrina contigo; 7 e ao teu gado, e aos animais que estão na tua terra, todo o seu produto será por mantimento.

8 Contarás sete semanas de anos, sete vezes sete anos, de maneira que os dias das sete semanas de anos te serão quarenta e nove anos. 9 Então, no mês sétimo, aos dez do mês, farás passar a trombeta vibrante; no Dia da Expiação, fareis passar a trombeta por toda a vossa terra. 10 Santificareis o ano quinquagésimo e proclamareis liberdade na terra a todos os seus moradores; ano de jubileu vos será, e tornareis, cada um à sua possessão, e cada um à sua família. 11 O ano quinquagésimo vos será jubileu; não semeareis, nem segareis o que nele nascer de si mesmo, nem nele colhereis as uvas das vinhas não podadas. 12 Porque é jubileu, santo será para vós outros; o produto do campo comereis.

13 Neste Ano do Jubileu, tornareis cada um à sua possessão. 14 Quando venderes alguma coisa ao teu próximo ou a comprares da mão do teu próximo, não oprimas teu irmão. 15 Segundo o número dos anos desde o Jubileu, comprarás de teu próximo; e, segundo o número dos anos das messes, ele venderá a ti. 16 Sendo muitos os anos, aumentarás o preço e, sendo poucos, abaixarás o preço; porque ele te vende o número das messes. 17 Não oprimais ao vosso próximo; cada um, porém, tema a seu Deus; porque eu sou o Senhor, vosso Deus.

18 Observai os meus estatutos, guardai os meus juízos e cumpri-os; assim, habitareis seguros na terra. 19 A terra dará o seu fruto, e comereis a fartar e nela habitareis seguros. 20 Se disserdes: Que comeremos no ano sétimo, visto que não havemos de semear, nem colher a nossa messe? 21 Então, eu vos darei a minha bênção no sexto ano, para que dê fruto por três anos. 22 No oitavo ano, semeareis e comereis da colheita anterior até ao ano nono; até que venha a sua messe, comereis da antiga. 23 Também a terra não se venderá em perpetuidade, porque a terra é minha; pois vós sois para mim estrangeiros e peregrinos. 24 Portanto, em toda a terra da vossa possessão dareis resgate à terra.

25 Se teu irmão empobrecer e vender alguma parte das suas possessões, então, virá o seu resgatador, seu parente, e resgatará o que seu irmão vendeu. 26 Se alguém não tiver resgatador, porém vier a tornar-se próspero e achar o bastante com que a remir, 27 então, contará os anos desde a sua venda, e o que ficar restituirá ao homem a quem vendeu, e tornará à sua possessão. 28 Mas, se as suas posses não lhe permitirem reavê-la, então, a que for vendida ficará na mão do comprador até ao Ano do Jubileu; porém, no Ano do Jubileu, sairá do poder deste, e aquele tornará à sua possessão.

29 Quando alguém vender uma casa de moradia em cidade murada, poderá resgatá-la dentro de um ano a contar de sua venda; durante um ano, será lícito o seu resgate. 30 Se, passando-se-lhe um ano, não for resgatada, então, a casa que estiver na cidade que tem muro ficará em perpetuidade ao que a comprou, pelas suas gerações; não sairá do poder dele no Jubileu. 31 Mas as casas das aldeias que não têm muro em roda serão estimadas como os campos da terra; para elas haverá resgate, e sairão do poder do comprador no Jubileu. 32 Mas, com respeito às cidades dos levitas, às casas das cidades da sua possessão, terão direito perpétuo de resgate os levitas. 33 Se o levita não resgatar a casa que vendeu, então, a casa comprada na cidade da sua possessão sairá do poder do comprador, no Jubileu; porque as casas das cidades dos levitas são a sua possessão no meio dos filhos de Israel. 34 Mas o campo no arrabalde das suas cidades não se venderá, porque lhes é possessão perpétua.

35 Se teu irmão empobrecer, e as suas forças decaírem, então, sustentá-lo-ás. Como estrangeiro e peregrino ele viverá contigo. 36 Não receberás dele juros nem ganho; teme, porém, ao teu Deus, para que teu irmão viva contigo. 37 Não lhe darás teu dinheiro com juros, nem lhe darás o teu mantimento por causa de lucro. 38 Eu sou o Senhor, vosso Deus, que vos tirei da terra do Egito, para vos dar a terra de Canaã e para ser o vosso Deus.

39 Também se teu irmão empobrecer, estando ele contigo, e vender-se a ti, não o farás servir como escravo. 40 Como jornaleiro e peregrino estará contigo; até ao Ano do Jubileu te servirá; 41 então, sairá de tua casa, ele e seus filhos com ele, e tornará à sua família e à possessão de seus pais. 42 Porque são meus servos, que tirei da terra do Egito; não serão vendidos como escravos. 43 Não te assenhorearás dele com tirania; teme, porém, ao teu Deus. 44 Quanto aos escravos ou escravas que tiverdes, virão das nações ao vosso derredor; delas comprareis escravos e escravas. 45 Também os comprareis dos filhos dos forasteiros que peregrinam entre vós, deles e das suas famílias que estiverem convosco, que nasceram na vossa terra; e vos serão por possessão. 46 Deixá-los-eis por herança para vossos filhos depois de vós, para os haverem como possessão; perpetuamente os fareis servir, mas sobre vossos irmãos, os filhos de Israel, não vos assenhoreareis com tirania, um sobre os outros.

47 Quando o estrangeiro ou peregrino que está contigo se tornar rico, e teu irmão junto dele empobrecer e vender-se ao estrangeiro, ou peregrino que está contigo, ou a alguém da família do estrangeiro, 48 depois de haver-se vendido, haverá ainda resgate para ele; um de seus irmãos poderá resgatá-lo: 49 seu tio ou primo o resgatará; ou um dos seus, parente da sua família, o resgatará; ou, se lograr meios, se resgatará a si mesmo. 50 Com aquele que o comprou acertará contas desde o ano em que se vendeu a ele até ao Ano do Jubileu; o preço da sua venda será segundo o número dos anos, conforme se paga a um jornaleiro. 51 Se ainda faltarem muitos anos, devolverá proporcionalmente a eles, do dinheiro pelo qual foi comprado, o preço do seu resgate. 52 Se restarem poucos anos até ao Ano do Jubileu, então, fará contas com ele e pagará, em proporção aos anos restantes, o preço do seu resgate. 53 Como jornaleiro, de ano em ano, estará com ele; não se assenhoreará dele com tirania à tua vista. 54 Se desta sorte se não resgatar, sairá no Ano do Jubileu, ele e seus filhos com ele. 55 Porque os filhos de Israel me são servos; meus servos são eles, os quais tirei da terra do Egito. Eu sou o Senhor, vosso Deus.

1 And Jehovah 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 Jehovah. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof; 4 but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather: it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee. 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be for food.

8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

13 In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor’s hand, ye shall not wrong one another. 15 According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee. 16 According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee. 17 And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am Jehovah your God.

18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase; 21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old store.

23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. 25 If thy brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold. 26 And if a man have no one to redeem it, and he be waxed rich and find sufficient to redeem it; 27 then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession. 28 But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he hath sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

29 And if a man sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee. 32 Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

35 And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee. 36 Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor give him thy victuals for increase. 38 I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

39 And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bond-servant. 40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee: 41 then shall he go out from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God. 44 And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.

47 And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family; 48 after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him; 49 or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be waxed rich, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him. 51 If there be yet many years, according unto them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his years shall he give back the price of his redemption. 53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight. 54 And if he be not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

1 The LORD said to Moses at Mount Sinai,

2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you, the land itself must observe a sabbath to the LORD.

3 For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops.

4 But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.

5 Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.

6 Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you —for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,

7 as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

8 "'Count off seven sabbath years —seven times seven years —so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.

9 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.

10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.

11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.

12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

13 "'In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.

14 "'If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.

15 You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.

16 When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

17 Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the LORD your God.

18 "'Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.

19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

20 You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?"

21 I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

22 While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

23 "'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.

24 Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

25 "'If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.

26 If, however, there is no one to redeem it for them but later on they prosper and acquire sufficient means to redeem it themselves,

27 they are to determine the value for the years since they sold it and refund the balance to the one to whom they sold it; they can then go back to their own property.

28 But if they do not acquire the means to repay, what was sold will remain in the possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. It will be returned in the Jubilee, and they can then go back to their property.

29 "'Anyone who sells a house in a walled city retains the right of redemption a full year after its sale. During that time the seller may redeem it.

30 If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer and the buyer's descendants. It is not to be returned in the Jubilee.

31 But houses in villages without walls around them are to be considered as belonging to the open country. They can be redeemed, and they are to be returned in the Jubilee.

32 "'The Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the Levitical towns, which they possess.

33 So the property of the Levites is redeemable —that is, a house sold in any town they hold —and is to be returned in the Jubilee, because the houses in the towns of the Levites are their property among the Israelites.

34 But the pastureland belonging to their towns must not be sold; it is their permanent possession.

35 "'If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.

36 Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

37 You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.

38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

39 "'If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to you, do not make them work as slaves.

40 They are to be treated as hired workers or temporary residents among you; they are to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

41 Then they and their children are to be released, and they will go back to their own clans and to the property of their ancestors.

42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.

43 Do not rule over them ruthlessly, but fear your God.

44 "'Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves.

45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property.

46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.

47 "'If a foreigner residing among you becomes rich and any of your fellow Israelites become poor and sell themselves to the foreigner or to a member of the foreigner's clan,

48 they retain the right of redemption after they have sold themselves. One of their relatives may redeem them:

49 An uncle or a cousin or any blood relative in their clan may redeem them. Or if they prosper, they may redeem themselves.

50 They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

51 If many years remain, they must pay for their redemption a larger share of the price paid for them.

52 If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they are to compute that and pay for their redemption accordingly.

53 They are to be treated as workers hired from year to year; you must see to it that those to whom they owe service do not rule over them ruthlessly.

54 "'Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee,

55 for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.