Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Leviticus 25:29-45 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.

32. The houses of Levites, which are in cities, may always be redeemed:

33. If they be not redeemed, in the jubilee they shall all return to the owners, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are for their possessions among the children of Israel.

34. But let not their suburbs be sold, because it is a perpetual possession.

35. If thy brother be impoverished, and weak of hand, and thou receive him as a stranger and sojourner, and he live with thee,

36. Take not usury of him nor more than thou gavest: fear thy God, that thy brother may live with thee.

37. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor exact of him any increase of fruits.

38. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that I might give you the land of Chanaan, and might be your God.

39. If thy brother constrained by poverty, sell himself to thee, thou shalt not oppress him with the service of bondservants:

40. But he shall be as a hireling, and a sojourner: he shall work with thee until the year of the jubilee,

41. And afterwards he shall go out with his children, and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers,

42. For they are my servants, and I brought them out of the land of Egypt: let them not be sold as bondmen:

43. Afflict him not by might, but fear thy God.

44. Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you.

45. And of the strangers that sojourn among you, or that were born of them in your land, these you shall have for servants: