The Scriptures 1998

Leviticus 25:6-20 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

6. ‘And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you,

7. and for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land. All its crops are for food.

8. ‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

9. ‘You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass through all your land.

10. ‘And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Jubilee for you. And each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan.

11. ‘The fiftieth year is a Jubilee to you. Do not sow, nor reap what grows of its own, nor gather from its unpruned vine.

12. ‘It is a Jubilee, it is set-apart to you. Eat from the field its crops.

13. ‘In the Year of this Jubilee let each one of you return to his possession.

14. ‘And when you sell whatever to your neighbour or buy from the hand of your neighbour, do not exploit one another.

15. ‘According to the number of years after the Jubilee you buy from your neighbour, and according to the number of years of crops he sells to you.

16. ‘According to the greater number of years you increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you diminish its price, because he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.

17. ‘And do not oppress one another, but you shall fear your Elohim. For I am יהוה your Elohim.

18. ‘And you shall do My laws and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And you shall dwell in the land in safety,

19. ‘and the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction, and shall dwell there in safety.

20. ‘And since you might say, “What do we eat in the seventh year, since we do not sow nor gather in our crops?”