Leviticus 25

1Yahweh said to Moses on Mount Sinai,Cross-references: Ex 19:1 · Num 1:1 · Num 10:11 · Gal 4:24

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.Cross-references: Ex 23:10 · Lev 14:34 · Lev 23:32 · Lev 26:34 · Deut 32:8 · Deut 32:49 · +6 more

3You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;Cross-references: Ex 23:10

4but 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.Cross-references: Ex 23:10 · Lev 25:20 · Lev 26:34 · Lev 26:43 · 2Chr 36:21

5What 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:29 · Isa 37:30

6The 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.Cross-references: Ex 23:11 · Lev 25:20 · Acts 2:44 · Acts 4:32 · Acts 4:34

7For 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.Cross-references: Gen 2:2 · Lev 23:15

9Then 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.Cross-references: Lev 16:20 · Lev 16:30 · Lev 23:24 · Lev 23:27 · Lev 25:10 · Lev 27:17 · +9 more

10You 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.Cross-references: Ex 20:2 · Lev 25:13 · Lev 25:26 · Lev 25:33 · Lev 27:17 · Num 36:2 · +18 more

11That 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.Cross-references: Lev 25:4 · Lev 27:17

12For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.Cross-references: Lev 25:6

13“‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.Cross-references: Lev 25:10 · Lev 27:17 · Num 36:4

14“‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.Cross-references: Lev 19:13 · Lev 25:17 · Deut 16:19 · Judg 4:3 · 1Sam 12:3 · 2Chr 16:10 · +26 more

15According 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.Cross-references: Lev 27:18 · Phil 4:5

16According 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.Cross-references: Lev 25:27 · Lev 25:51

17You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.Cross-references: Gen 20:11 · Gen 22:12 · Gen 39:9 · Gen 42:18 · Ex 20:20 · Lev 19:14 · +21 more

18“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.Cross-references: Lev 19:37 · Lev 26:3 · Deut 12:10 · Deut 28:1 · Deut 33:12 · Deut 33:28 · +11 more

19The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.Cross-references: Lev 26:5 · Ps 67:6 · Ps 85:12 · Isa 30:23 · Isa 65:21 · Ezek 34:25 · +3 more

20If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”Cross-references: Lev 25:4 · Num 11:4 · Num 11:13 · 2Ki 6:15 · 2Ki 7:2 · 2Chr 25:9 · +7 more

21then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.Cross-references: Gen 26:12 · Gen 41:47 · Ex 16:29 · Lev 25:4 · Lev 25:8 · Deut 28:3 · +4 more

22You 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.Cross-references: Lev 26:10 · Josh 5:11 · 2Ki 19:29 · Isa 37:30

23“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.Cross-references: Gen 23:4 · Gen 47:9 · Ex 19:5 · Lev 25:10 · Deut 32:43 · 1Ki 21:3 · +13 more

24In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.Cross-references: Lev 25:27 · Lev 25:31 · Lev 25:51 · Rom 8:23 · 1Cor 1:30 · Eph 1:7 · +2 more

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.Cross-references: Ruth 2:20 · Ruth 3:2 · Ruth 3:9 · Ruth 3:12 · Ruth 4:4 · Jer 32:7 · +3 more

26If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,Cross-references: Lev 5:7

27then 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.

28But 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.Cross-references: Lev 25:10 · Lev 25:13 · Isa 35:9 · Jer 32:15 · 1Cor 15:52 · 1Thess 4:13 · +1 more

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.

30If 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.

31But 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.Cross-references: Ps 49:7

32“‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time.Cross-references: Num 35:1 · Josh 21:1

33The 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.Cross-references: Num 18:20 · Deut 18:1

34But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.Cross-references: Lev 25:23 · Num 35:2 · Acts 4:36

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.Cross-references: Ex 23:9 · Lev 19:34 · Lev 25:25 · Deut 10:18 · Deut 15:7 · Deut 24:14 · +23 more

36Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.Cross-references: Ex 22:25 · Lev 25:17 · Deut 23:19 · Neh 5:7 · Neh 5:15 · Ps 15:5 · +5 more

37You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

38I 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.Cross-references: Gen 17:7 · Ex 20:2 · Lev 11:45 · Lev 22:32 · Num 15:41 · Jer 31:1 · +3 more

39“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.Cross-references: Ex 1:14 · Ex 21:2 · Ex 22:3 · Lev 25:46 · Deut 15:12 · 1Ki 9:22 · +6 more

40As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.Cross-references: Ex 21:2

41Then 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.Cross-references: Ex 21:3 · Lev 25:10 · Lev 25:28 · John 8:32 · Rom 6:14 · Titus 2:14

42For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.Cross-references: Lev 25:55 · Rom 6:22 · 1Cor 7:21

43You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.Cross-references: Ex 1:13 · Ex 1:17 · Ex 1:21 · Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 3:9 · +11 more

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.Cross-references: Ex 12:44 · Ps 2:8 · Isa 14:1 · Rev 2:26

45Moreover, 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.Cross-references: Isa 56:3

46You 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.Cross-references: Lev 25:43 · Isa 14:2

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,Cross-references: Lev 25:26 · 1Sam 2:7 · James 2:5

48after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;Cross-references: Lev 25:25 · Lev 25:35 · Neh 5:5 · Neh 5:8 · Gal 4:4 · Heb 2:11

49or 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.Cross-references: Lev 25:26

50He 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.Cross-references: Lev 25:40 · Lev 25:53 · Deut 15:18 · Job 7:1 · Job 14:6 · Isa 16:14 · +1 more

51If 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.

52If 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.

53As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.Cross-references: Lev 25:43 · Lev 25:46

54If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him.Cross-references: Ex 21:2 · Lev 25:40 · Isa 49:9 · Isa 49:25 · Isa 52:3

55For 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.Cross-references: Ex 13:3 · Ex 20:2 · Lev 25:42 · Ps 116:16 · Isa 43:3 · Luke 1:74 · +7 more