Webster Bible Translation

Leviticus 25:33-48 Webster Bible Translation (WBT)

33. And if a man shall purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession shall go out in the year of jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

34. But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

35. And if thy brother shall have become poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he may be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

36. Take thou no interest of him, or increase; but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

37. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon interest, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

38. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

39. And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee shall have become poor, and be sold to thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond servant:

40. But as a hired servant, and as a sojourner he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee to the year of jubilee.

41. And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.

42. For they are my servants, which I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as bond-men.

43. Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.

44. Both thy bond-men, and thy bond-maids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are around you; of them shall ye buy bond-men and bond-maids.

45. Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

46. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession, they shall be your bond-men for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.

47. And if a sojourner or a stranger shall become rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him shall become poor, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

48. After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him: