Sabbath of Sabbath-ceasing shall there
be for the land!
6 Now the Sabbath-yield of the land (is) for you,
for eating,
for you, for your servant and for your handmaid,
for your hired-hand and for your resident-settler
who sojourn with you;
7 and for your domestic-animal and the wild-beast
that (are) in your land
shall be all its produce, to eat.
8 Now you are to number yourselves seven Sabbath-cycles
of years
—seven years, seven times—
so the time of the seven Sabbath-cycles of years will
be for you (a total of) nine and forty years.
9 Then you are to give-forth (on the) shofar
a blast,
in the seventh New-Moon, on the tenth after the New-Moon,
on the Day of Atonement,
you are to give(-blast on the) shofar throughout
all your land.
10 You are to hallow the year, the fiftieth year,
proclaiming freedom throughout the land and to all
its inhabitants;
it shall be Homebringing for you,
you are to return, each-man to his holding,
each-man to his clan you are to return.
11 It is Homebringing, the fiftieth year—it shall
be for you,
you are not to sow,
you are not to harvest its aftergrowth,
you are not to gather its consecrated-grapes,
12 for it is Homebringing, holy shall it be for you,
(only) from the field may you eat its produce;
13 in this Year of Homebringing you are to return,
each-man to his holding.
14 Now when you sell property-for-sale to your fellow
or purchase (it) from the hand of your fellow,
do not maltreat any-man his brother!
15 By the number of years after the Homebringing
you are to purchase (it) from your fellow,
by the number of years of produce (left) he is to
sell it to you:
16 according to the many years (left), you may charge-him-much
for his purchase,
according to the few years (left), you may charge-him-little
for his purchase,
since a (certain) number of harvests is what he is
selling to you.
17 So you are not to maltreat any-man his fellow,
rather, you are to hold your God in awe,
for I YHWH am your God!
18 You are to observe my laws,
my regulations you are to keep, and observe them,
that you may be settled on the land in security,
19 that the land may give forth its fruit
and that you may eat to being-satisfied,
and be settled in security upon it.
20 Now if you should say (to yourselves):
What are we to eat in the seventh year?
—(for) here, we may not sow, we may not gather our
produce!
21 Then I will dispatch my blessing for you during
the sixth year
so that it yields produce for three years;
22 you may sow the eighth year(’s yield), but you
must eat of the old produce until the ninth year;
until its produce comes in, you must eat what-is-old.
23 But the land is not to be sold in-harness, for
the land is mine;
for you are sojourners and resident-settlers with
me,
24 throughout all the land of your holdings, you are
to allow for redemption of the land.
25 When your brother sinks down (in poverty) and has
to sell (some of) his holding,
his redeemer nearest-in-kin to him is to come
and redeem the sold-property of his brother.
26 Now a man—if he has no redeemer,
but his hand reaches (means) and finds enough to redeem
with,
27 he is to reckon the years since its sale,
returning the surplus to the man to whom he sold it,
and it is to return to his holding.
28 But if his hand does not find enough (means) for
returning it,
what he sold is to remain in the hand of the one purchasing
it, until the Year of Homebringing,
it is to go-free in the Homebringing-Year, and it
is to return to his holding.
29 A man—if he sells a residential house in a walled
town,
its redemption-period (is) until the end of the year
of its sale,
a year-of-days shall be its redemption-period.
30 If it is not redeemed before a whole year of it
has been fulfilled,
the house that is in the town that has a wall shall
be-established, in-harness, for him who purchases it, throughout
his generations,
it is not to go-free in the Homebringing-Year.
31 But houses in villages that do not have a wall
around them,
as open-fields of the land are they to be reckoned,
there may be redemption for them,
and in the Homebringing-Year they may go-free.
32 Now (as for) the towns of the Levites, the houses
in the towns of their holding—
redemption-right for the ages is to belong to the
Levites.
33 (That) which is redeemed from the Levites:
it is to go-free, the house sold in the town of their
holding, in the Homebringing-Year,
for houses of Levitical towns, they are their holding
amid the Children of Israel.
34 But pasture-land of the field (near) their towns
is not to be sold,
for it is a holding for the ages for them.
35 Now when your brother sinks down (in poverty)
and his hand falters beside you,
then shall you strengthen him
as (though) a sojourner and resident-settler,
and he is to live beside you.
36 Do not take from him biting-interest or profit,
but hold your God in awe,
so that your brother may live beside you!
37 Your silver you are not to give him at interest,
for profit you are not to give (him) your food;
38 I YHWH am your God
who brought you out of the land of Egypt
to give you the land of Canaan,to be for you a God!
39 And when your brother sinks down (in poverty) beside
you, and sells himself to you,
you are not to make him serve the servitude of a serf;
40 as a hired-hand, as a resident-settler is he to
be beside you,
(only) until the Year of Homebringing is he to serve
beside you.
41 Then he is to go-free from beside you,
he and his children beside him;
he may return to his clan,
to the holding of his fathers he may return.
42 For my servants are they
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt,
they are not to be sold as the sale of serfs.
43 You are not to have-dominion over him with crushing-labor,
rather, you are to hold your God in awe!
44 Your servant and your maid that belong to you from
the nations surrounding you, from them you may purchase serf and
maid;
45 also from the sons of the residents who sojourn
beside you, from them you may purchase (slaves),
or from their clans that are beside you, that they
beget in your land,
and they shall become your holdings.
46 You may keep-them-as-an-inheritance for your children
after you,
for (them to) possess as holdings;
for the ages you may make them serve you.
But as for your brothers, the Children of Israel,
each-man toward his brother,
you are not to have-dominion over him with crushing-labor!
47 Now if the hand of a resident sojourner reaches
(means) beside you,
and your brother sinks down (in poverty) beside him,
so that he sells himself to the resident sojourner
beside you, or to an offshoot of the sojourner’s clan,
48 (even) after he has sold himself, redemption may
be his;
one of his brothers may redeem him,
49 or his uncle or the son of his uncle may redeem
him,
or (some) kin of his flesh, from his clan, may redeem
him,
or, should his hand reach (means), he may redeem-himself.
50 He is to reckon with his purchaser from the year
that he was sold to him until the Year of Homebringing;
the silver from his sale shall be by the number of
years—
like the time-period of a hired-hand is he to be beside
him.
51 If there are still many years (left),
according to them he is to return-payment for his
redemption from the silver of his purchase;
52 and if few remain in years until the Year of Homebringing,
he is to reckon it to him,
according to its years he is to return-payment for
his redemption.
53 As a hired-hand, year by year, he is to be beside
him,
he is not to have-dominion over him with crushing-labor
before your eyes.
54 And if he has not been redeemed in (any of) these
(ways),
he is to go-free in the Year of Homebringing, he and
his children beside him.
55 For it is to me that the Children of Israel are
servants,
my servants are they,
whom I brought out of the land of Egypt,
I am YHWH your God!
26:1 You are not to make for yourselves no-gods,
a carved-image or a standing-pillar you are not to
establish for yourselves,
a decorated stone you are not to place in your land,
to prostrate yourselves to it,
for I YHWH am your God!
2 My Sabbaths you are to keep, my Holy-Shrine you
are to hold-in-awe,
I am YHWH!
