Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Leviticus 25:14-31 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

14. When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him; grieve not thy brother: but thou shalt buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.

15. And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.

16. The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.

17. Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God: because I am the Lord your God.

18. Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,

19. And the ground may yield you its fruits, of which you may eat your fill, fearing no mall's invasion.

20. But if you say: What shall we eat the seventh year, if we sow not, nor gather our fruits?

21. I will give you my blessing the sixth year, and it shall yield the fruits of three years:

22. And the eighth year you shall sow, and shall eat of the old fruits, until the ninth year: till new grow up, you shall eat the old store.

23. The land also shall not be sold for ever: because it is mine, and you are strangers and sojourners with me.

24. For which cause all the country of your possession shall be under the condition of redemption.

25. If thy brother being impoverished sell his little possession, and his kinsman will, he may redeem what he had sold.

26. But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:

27. The value of the fruits shall be counted from that time when he sold it: and the overplus he shall restore to the buyer, and so shall receive his possession again.

28. But if his hands find not the means to repay the price, the buyer shall have what he bought, until the year of the jubilee. For in that year all that is sold shall return to the owner, and to the ancient possessor.

29. He that selleth a house within the walls of a city, shall have the liberty to redeem it, until one year be expired:

30. If he redeem it not, and the whole year be fully out, the buyer shall possess it, and his posterity for ever, and it cannot be redeemed, not even in the jubilee.

31. But if the house be in a village, that hath no walls, it shall be sold according to the same law as the fields: if it be not redeemed before, in the jubilee it shall return to the owner.