New American Bible, Revised Edition

Leviticus 25:10-21 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

10. You shall treat this fiftieth year as sacred. You shall proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to your own property, each of you to your own family.

11. This fiftieth year is your year of jubilee; you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick the untrimmed vines,

12. since this is the jubilee. It shall be sacred for you. You may only eat what the field yields of itself.

13. In this year of jubilee, then, each of you shall return to your own property.

14. Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any from your neighbor, do not deal unfairly with one another.

15. On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee you shall purchase the land from your neighbor; and so also, on the basis of the number of years of harvest, that person shall sell it to you.

16. When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more; when the years are few, the price shall be so much the less. For it is really the number of harvests that the person sells you.

17. Do not deal unfairly with one another, then; but stand in fear of your God. I, the Lord, am your God.

18. Observe my statutes and be careful to keep my ordinances, so that you will dwell securely in the land.

19. The land will yield its fruit and you will eat your fill, and live there securely.

20. And if you say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow or reap our crop?”

21. I will command such a blessing for you in the sixth year that there will be crop enough for three years,