Leviticus 25Book 3 of 66 · 55 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I give you, the land itself shall keep a sabbath rest to the LORD.
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its produce.
But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD, and you shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes from your unpruned vines, for it is a year of complete rest for the land.
And the sabbath produce of the land shall provide food for you: for yourself, your male and female servants, your hired worker, and the temporary resident who dwells with you.
For your livestock and the wild animals that are in your land, all its produce shall be for food.
You shall count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbaths of years amounts to forty-nine years.
Then you shall sound the ram's horn loudly on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a Jubilee for you when each of you shall return to his own property and each of you shall return to his clan.
That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from your unpruned vines.
For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you may eat its produce directly from the field.
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own possession.
And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not wrong one another.
According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of remaining harvest years he shall sell to you.
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 what he is selling to you is the number of harvests.
Therefore you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and carefully perform them, and you will dwell in the land securely.
Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.
And if you say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we are not allowed to sow nor gather in our produce?"
Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth a crop sufficient for three years.
And you shall sow in the eighth year and still eat old produce until the ninth year; until its crop comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.
The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are only foreigners and sojourners with Me.
And in all the land of your property you shall grant the right of redemption of the land.
If one of your brethren becomes poor and has sold some of his property, then his nearest kinsman may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself prospers and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
Then let him calculate the years since its sale, and repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his property.
But if he does not have sufficient means 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.
If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; for a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall belong permanently to the buyer throughout his generations, and it shall not be released in the Jubilee.
However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the open fields of the country, they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites have a permanent right to redeem at any time.
And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in the city of their possession shall be released in the Jubilee, for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
But the pastureland fields around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.
If one of your brethren becomes poor and cannot maintain himself among you, then you shall support him like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.
Take no usury or profit from him, but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.
You shall not lend him your silver at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
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.
If one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave.
As a hired worker and a temporary resident he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee.
And then he shall depart from you—he and his children with him—and shall return to his own family and go back to the possession of his fathers.
For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they must never be sold as slaves.
You shall not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your God.
And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have—from the pagan nations that are around you, from them you may purchase male and female slaves.
Moreover you may purchase from the children of the foreigners who sojourn among you and their families who are with you, whom they have produced in your land, and they may become your possession.
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 harshly.
Now if a foreigner or temporary resident living among 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.
After he is sold he shall have the right to be redeemed again, and one of his brothers may redeem him.
His uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or any close relative from his clan may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself.
He shall calculate with the one who purchased him from the year when he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee, and the price of his release shall be determined by the number of years, reckoned as the wages of a hired worker for that period of time.
If there are still many years remaining until the jubilee, he shall pay back proportionately for his redemption based on the price for which he was bought.
And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate with him, and according to his years of service he shall repay the price of his redemption in proportion to those years.
He shall be with him as a yearly hired servant, and he shall not rule ruthlessly over him in your sight.
And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall go free in the Year of Jubilee—he and his children with him.
For the children of Israel belong to Me as servants; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.