1 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying,
2 "Speak to the children of Israel and tell them: When you come into the land I am giving you, the land shall rest a Sabbath to the LORD.
3 For six years you may sow your field, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather in its yield.
4 But the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD; your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune.
5 What springs up by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of complete rest for the land.
6 What the land yields in its Sabbath shall be food for you—for yourself, for your male and female servants, for your hired man, and for the resident who lives as a stranger with you,
7 and for your livestock and the wild beasts in your land; all its yield shall be for food.
8 "You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, so that the days of the seven Sabbaths of years amount for you to forty-nine years.
9 Then on the tenth day of the seventh month you shall sound a loud blast on the horn; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the horn sound throughout all your land.
10 You shall make the fiftieth year holy and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you shall go back to his own property, and each shall go back to his clan.
11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; you shall not sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather from its unpruned vines.
12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat what the field yields.
13 "In this year of jubilee each of you shall go back to his own property.
14 When you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from your neighbor, you must not take advantage of one another.
15 You shall buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of harvest years.
16 The more years there are, the higher the price you shall set; the fewer the years, the lower the price you shall set; for it is a number of harvests that he is selling you.
17 You must not take advantage of one another, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
18 "So carry out my statutes, and keep my judgments and do them, and you will live securely in the land.
19 The land will give its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live securely on it.
20 And if you ask, 'What are we to eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our yield?'
21 I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years.
22 When you sow in the eighth year, you will still eat from the old produce; until the ninth year, until its produce comes in, you will eat the old.
23 "The land must not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; you are strangers and residents with me.
24 Throughout the land you possess you shall allow redemption for the land.
25 "If your brother grows poor and sells some of his property, his redeemer who is closest to him shall come and buy back what his brother has sold.
26 If a man has no redeemer, but he himself prospers and finds enough to redeem it,
27 he shall reckon the years since its sale, pay back the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.
28 But if he has not found enough to pay him back, what he sold shall remain in the possession of the buyer until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his property.
29 "If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, his right of redemption lasts until a year from its sale is complete; for a full year he may redeem it.
30 If it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, the house in the walled city shall belong in perpetuity to the buyer, for his generations; it shall not go out in the jubilee.
31 But houses in villages that have no surrounding wall shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they go out in the jubilee.
32 As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities they possess, the Levites shall have a lasting right of redemption.
33 And if someone buys from the Levites, the house sold in a city of their possession shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.
34 The pastureland around their cities must not be sold, for it is their property forever.
35 "If your brother grows poor and his hand falters beside you, you shall uphold him; like a stranger and a resident he shall live with you.
36 Take no interest or increase from him, but fear your God, so that your brother may live beside you.
37 Do not give him your money at interest or give him your food for gain.
38 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
39 "If your brother grows poor beside you and sells himself to you, you must not put him to work as a slave.
40 He shall be with you like a hired man or a resident; he shall work for you until the year of jubilee.
41 Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his clan, and return to the property of his fathers.
42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they must not be sold as a slave is sold.
43 Do not rule over him ruthlessly; fear your God.
44 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have, from the nations around you you may buy male and female slaves.
45 You may also buy from the children of the residents living as strangers among you, and from their clans who are with you, whom they have fathered in your land; they may become your property.
46 You may pass them on to your children after you to inherit as property; you may use them as slaves forever. But over your brothers, the children of Israel, you must not rule ruthlessly, one over another.
47 "If a stranger or resident with you prospers, and your brother beside him grows poor and sells himself to the stranger or resident with you, or to an offshoot of the stranger's clan,
48 after he has sold himself he shall have the right of redemption; one of his brothers may redeem him,
49 or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or any of his own flesh from his clan may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
50 He shall reckon with his buyer from the year he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years; his time with him shall be reckoned like the days of a hired man.
51 If many years still remain, he shall pay back for his redemption a corresponding part of the money he was bought for.
52 If few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall reckon with him and pay back for his redemption according to his years.
53 He shall be with him like a hired man year by year; the other must not rule over him ruthlessly before your eyes.
54 If he is not redeemed by these means, he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.
55 For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.