Leviticus
25:1-22
A. 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give
you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
B. 3 Six years thou shalt sow
thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
C. 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the
land, a sabbath for
the LORD:
B’. thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own
accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather
the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
A’. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be
meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy
hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth
with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall
all the increase thereof be meat.
2A. 8 And thou shalt number
seven sabbaths of
years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be
unto thee forty and nine years.
2B. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet
of the jubile to
sound
2C. on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day
of atonement
2B’. shall ye make the trumpet
sound throughout all your land.
2A’. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and
proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof:
3A.it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,
and ye shall return every man unto his family.
3B. 11 A jubile
shall that fiftieth year be unto
you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth
of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
3B’.12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you:
ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
3A’. 13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
4A. 14 And if thou sell ought unto
thy neighbour, or buyest
ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
4B. 15 According to the
number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour,
and according unto the number of years of the fruits
he shall sell unto thee:
4C. 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt
increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt
diminish the price of it:
4B’. for according to the
number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
4A’. 17 Ye
shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God. 18
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye
shall dwell in the land in safety.
5A.19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye
shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
5B. 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
5C.21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the
sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
5B’.22 And ye shall sow
the eighth year, and eat yet of old
fruit until the ninth year;
5A’. until her fruits come
in ye shall eat
of the old store.