1 Yahweh said to Moses on Mount Sinai, 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh. 3 You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits; 4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard. 5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land. 6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. 7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
8 "‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. 11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
13 "‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
14 "‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. 15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you. 16 According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you. 17 You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
18 "‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;" 21 then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years. 22 You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
23 "‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. 24 In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
25 "‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold. 26 If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it, 27 then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property. 28 But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
29 "‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption. 30 If it isn’t 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 who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
32 "‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time. 33 The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released 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 pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.
35 "‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident. 36 Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you. 37 You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit. 38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39 "‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave. 40 As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee. 41 Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and 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 harshness, but shall fear your God.
44 "‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves. 45 Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property. 46 You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
47 "‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family, 48 after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him; 49 or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself. 50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant. 51 If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52 If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall 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 harshness over him in your sight. 54 If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him. 55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh 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。"