1 And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall celebrate a sabbath to Jehovah.

3 Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof,

4 but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune.

5 That which springeth up from the scattered seed of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the land.

6 And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle,

7 and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food.

8 And thou shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be unto thee forty-nine years.

9 Then shalt thou cause the loud sound of the trumpet to go forth in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement shall ye cause the trumpet to go forth throughout your land.

10 And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; a {year of} jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family;

11 a year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap its aftergrowth, nor gather {the fruit of} its undressed vines.

12 For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of the field shall ye eat its produce.

13 In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

14 And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

15 According to the number of years since the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of the produce, he shall sell unto thee.

16 According to the greater number of the years, thou shalt increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt diminish the price of it; for it is the number of crops that he selleth unto thee.

17 And ye shall not oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am Jehovah your God.

18 And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely.

19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat and be satisfied, and dwell therein securely.

20 And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;

21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years;

22 and ye shall sow in the eighth year, and ye shall eat of the old fruit until the ninth year; until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old.

23 And 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 ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

25 If thy brother grow poor, and sell of his possession, then shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that which his brother sold.

26 And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its redemption,

27 then shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so return unto his possession.

28 And if his hand have not found what sufficeth for him to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the purchaser, until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

29 And if any one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he shall have the right of redemption up to the end of the year of the sale thereof; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.

30 But if it be not redeemed until a whole year is complete, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

31 But the houses in villages that have no wall round about them shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

32 But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

33 And if any one redeem from one of the Levites, then the house that was sold, in 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 And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

35 And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, {be he} stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.

36 Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.

37 Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend 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, to be your God.

39 And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

40 as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee.

41 Then shall he depart 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 bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as {men} sell bondmen.

43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt fear thy God.

44 And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have-of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.

45 Moreover of the children of them that dwell as sojourners with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your possession.

46 And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour.

47 And if a stranger or sojourner become wealthy beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion of the stranger's family,

48 after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.

49 Either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his next relations of his family may redeem him; or if his means be sufficient, he may redeem himself.

50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.

51 If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption {money} 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 {remaining} years {of service} shall he give him back his redemption {money}.

53 As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; {his master} shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes.

54 And if he be not redeemed in this manner, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.

55 For the children of Israel are servants unto me; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

1 耶和华在西奈山对摩西说:

2 "你要告诉以色列人, 对他们说: 你们到了我赐给你们的那地以后, 地要守耶和华的安息。

3 六年之内, 你要耕种田地; 六年之内, 你要修剪葡萄园, 收藏地的出产;

4 但是第七年, 地要完全休歇, 享受耶和华的安息; 你不可耕种田地, 也不可修剪葡萄园。

5 你收割以后自然生长的庄稼, 你不可收割; 没有修剪的葡萄树果子, 你也不可采摘; 这一年, 地要完全休歇。

6 地在安息年的自然出产, 是给你们作食物; 就是给你, 你的仆婢、雇工和寄居的, 就是与你们一起居住的人;

7 甚至你的牲畜, 以及你那地的走兽, 都以安息年的出产作食物。

8 "你又要为自己计算七个安息年, 就是七个七年, 你经过了七个安息年, 四十九年的日子以后,

9 在七月初十, 你要吹角, 在赎罪日, 角声要响遍你的全地。

10 你们要把第五十年分别为圣, 向全地所有居民宣布自由; 这一年是你们的禧年, 你们各人要归回自己的地业, 归回自己的父家。

11 第五十年是你们的禧年; 这一年你们不可耕种, 也不可收割自然生长的, 也不可采摘没有修剪的葡萄树果子。

12 因为这是禧年, 你们要当作圣年; 你们可以吃地里的出产。

13 "在这禧年中, 你们各人要归回自己的地业。

14 如果你卖什么给邻舍, 或是从邻舍的手里买什么, 你们不可欺负对方。

15 你要按照下一个禧年以前还剩余的年数向邻舍买; 他也要按照这年数可得的出产价值卖给你。

16 年数多, 你付的买价就要增多。年数少, 你付的买价就要减少。因为他是按出产的数值卖给你。

17 你们不可欺负对方, 却要敬畏你的 神, 因为我是耶和华你们的 神。

18 "所以你们要遵行我的律例, 谨守我的典章, 遵照奉行, 就可以在那地安然居住。

19 地必生产果实, 你们就可以吃饱, 在那地安然居住。

20 如果你们问: 在第七年我们不耕种, 也不收藏我们的出产, 我们吃什么呢?

21 在第六年, 我必命我的福临到你们, 地就会生产足够三年食用的出产。

22 第八年你们耕种时, 仍有旧粮吃; 直到第九年, 收成新粮的时候, 你还有旧粮可吃。

23 "地不可永远卖掉, 因为地是我的; 你们在我面前不过是寄居的和客旅。

24 在你们所得为业的全地, 你们应该让人有赎地的权利。

25 如果你的兄弟贫穷, 卖了部分地业, 他的至亲可以来, 把兄弟所卖的赎回。

26 如果没有代赎人, 而他自己的经济能力改善, 足够把地赎回,

27 他就要计算卖地的年数, 把余剩年数的出产数值还给那买主, 他就可以收回自己的地业。

28 如果他没有足够的能力为自己收回卖了的地, 他所卖的就要存在买主的手里, 直到禧年; 到了禧年, 买主必须把地归还, 卖地的人可以收回自己的地业。

29 "如果有人卖了一所城内的住宅, 在卖了以后的一整年之内, 他有赎回的权利; 在这些日子以内, 他随时可赎回。

30 如果满了一年期不赎回, 那所城内的房屋, 就要确定归买主世世代代为业; 就算到了禧年, 买主也不必交出退还。

31 但房屋在四围没有城墙的村庄里, 就要算为乡下的田地一样, 是可以赎回的; 到了禧年, 买主要交出退还。

32 至于利未人的城, 就是他们所得为业的城, 其中的房屋, 利未人有随时可以赎回的权利。

33 如果一个利未人在他所得为业的城里, 没有赎回已经卖了的房屋, 到了禧年, 买主仍要交出退还; 因为利未人城里的房屋, 是他们在以色列人中的产业。

34 只是他们城郊之地不可出卖, 因为是他们永远的地业。

35 "如果你的兄弟贫穷, 在你那里手头拮据, 你要资助他, 使他可以与你一同生活, 像旅客寄居的一样。

36 你不可向他收取高利, 却要敬畏你的 神, 使你的兄弟可以与你一同生活。

37 你借钱给他, 不可向他取利息; 借粮给他, 也不可要他多还。

38 我是耶和华你们的 神, 曾经把你们从埃及地领出来, 要把迦南地赐给你们, 而且要作你们的 神。

39 "你的兄弟在你那里若是贫穷了, 卖身给你, 你不可逼他作奴仆的工作。

40 他在你那里要像雇工和寄居的一样; 他要服事你直到禧年。

41 到了禧年, 他和他的儿女要离开你, 归回他本家, 归回自己祖宗的地业。

42 因为他们是我的仆人, 是我从埃及地领出来的, 他们不可以卖作奴仆。

43 你不可严严地辖制他, 却要敬畏你的 神。

44 至于你需要的仆婢, 可以来自你们四围的列国, 你们可以从他们中间购买奴婢。

45 你们也可以从那些与你们住在一起的外人的儿女中, 或是从他们的家族中, 就是那些与你们在一起, 在你们境内所生的, 购买奴婢; 他们要作你们的产业。

46 你们要把他们留给你们的子孙作永远的产业, 你们要从他们中间取奴仆; 只是你们的兄弟以色列人, 你们却不可苛刻管辖。

47 "在你中间寄居的外人或是客旅若是富足起来, 你的兄弟在他那里却渐渐穷乏, 把自己卖给住在你那里寄居的外人或客旅的家族,

48 卖了自己以后, 他仍有赎回的权利; 他兄弟中的任何一个都可以赎他;

49 他的叔伯或是他叔伯的儿子可以赎他, 他家族中的骨肉至亲也可以赎他; 如果他自己的经济能力改善, 也可以自赎。

50 他要与买主计算, 从卖身那一年起, 直到禧年为止; 照着年数的多少, 按雇工的工价计算赎银。

51 如果卖身时还有很多年才到禧年, 他就要按着年数, 照他卖身的价银按比例偿还他的赎价。

52 如果距离禧年只有几年, 他就按着年数, 与买主计算, 按雇工的工价, 偿还他的赎价。

53 买主要像每年雇用的工人那样待他。不可在你眼前苛刻地管辖他。

54 如果他不在这些年间把自己赎回, 到了禧年, 也可以和他的儿女一同离去。

55 因为以色列人都是属我的仆人; 他们是我的仆人, 是我把他们从埃及地领了出来的; 我是耶和华你们的 神。"