1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. 6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. 11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. 12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. 13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another: 15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: 16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. 17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. 19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. 20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. 22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. 26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; 27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. 28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. 29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it. 30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. 31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile. 32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. 33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: 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 be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. 36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. 38 I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth 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 be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. 42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do 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 bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto 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: 49 Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him. 51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for. 52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption. 53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight. 54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him. 55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

1 耶和华在西奈山对摩西说：

2 "你要告诉以色列人， 对他们说： 你们到了我赐给你们的那地以后， 地要守耶和华的安息。

3 六年之内， 你要耕种田地； 六年之内， 你要修剪葡萄园， 收藏地的出产；

4 但是第七年， 地要完全休歇， 享受耶和华的安息； 你不可耕种田地， 也不可修剪葡萄园。

5 你收割以后自然生长的庄稼， 你不可收割； 没有修剪的葡萄树果子， 你也不可采摘； 这一年， 地要完全休歇。

6 地在安息年的自然出产， 是给你们作食物； 就是给你， 你的仆婢、雇工和寄居的， 就是与你们一起居住的人；

7 甚至你的牲畜， 以及你那地的走兽， 都以安息年的出产作食物。

8 "你又要为自己计算七个安息年， 就是七个七年， 你经过了七个安息年， 四十九年的日子以后，

9 在七月初十， 你要吹角， 在赎罪日， 角声要响遍你的全地。

10 你们要把第五十年分别为圣， 向全地所有居民宣布自由； 这一年是你们的禧年， 你们各人要归回自己的地业， 归回自己的父家。

11 第五十年是你们的禧年； 这一年你们不可耕种， 也不可收割自然生长的， 也不可采摘没有修剪的葡萄树果子。

12 因为这是禧年， 你们要当作圣年； 你们可以吃地里的出产。

13 "在这禧年中， 你们各人要归回自己的地业。

14 如果你卖什么给邻舍， 或是从邻舍的手里买什么， 你们不可欺负对方。

15 你要按照下一个禧年以前还剩余的年数向邻舍买； 他也要按照这年数可得的出产价值卖给你。

16 年数多， 你付的买价就要增多。年数少， 你付的买价就要减少。因为他是按出产的数值卖给你。

17 你们不可欺负对方， 却要敬畏你的 神， 因为我是耶和华你们的 神。

18 "所以你们要遵行我的律例， 谨守我的典章， 遵照奉行， 就可以在那地安然居住。

19 地必生产果实， 你们就可以吃饱， 在那地安然居住。

20 如果你们问： 在第七年我们不耕种， 也不收藏我们的出产， 我们吃什么呢？

21 在第六年， 我必命我的福临到你们， 地就会生产足够三年食用的出产。

22 第八年你们耕种时， 仍有旧粮吃； 直到第九年， 收成新粮的时候， 你还有旧粮可吃。

23 "地不可永远卖掉， 因为地是我的； 你们在我面前不过是寄居的和客旅。

24 在你们所得为业的全地， 你们应该让人有赎地的权利。

25 如果你的兄弟贫穷， 卖了部分地业， 他的至亲可以来， 把兄弟所卖的赎回。

26 如果没有代赎人， 而他自己的经济能力改善， 足够把地赎回，

27 他就要计算卖地的年数， 把余剩年数的出产数值还给那买主， 他就可以收回自己的地业。

28 如果他没有足够的能力为自己收回卖了的地， 他所卖的就要存在买主的手里， 直到禧年； 到了禧年， 买主必须把地归还， 卖地的人可以收回自己的地业。

29 "如果有人卖了一所城内的住宅， 在卖了以后的一整年之内， 他有赎回的权利； 在这些日子以内， 他随时可赎回。

30 如果满了一年期不赎回， 那所城内的房屋， 就要确定归买主世世代代为业； 就算到了禧年， 买主也不必交出退还。

31 但房屋在四围没有城墙的村庄里， 就要算为乡下的田地一样， 是可以赎回的； 到了禧年， 买主要交出退还。

32 至于利未人的城， 就是他们所得为业的城， 其中的房屋， 利未人有随时可以赎回的权利。

33 如果一个利未人在他所得为业的城里， 没有赎回已经卖了的房屋， 到了禧年， 买主仍要交出退还； 因为利未人城里的房屋， 是他们在以色列人中的产业。

34 只是他们城郊之地不可出卖， 因为是他们永远的地业。

35 "如果你的兄弟贫穷， 在你那里手头拮据， 你要资助他， 使他可以与你一同生活， 像旅客寄居的一样。

36 你不可向他收取高利， 却要敬畏你的 神， 使你的兄弟可以与你一同生活。

37 你借钱给他， 不可向他取利息； 借粮给他， 也不可要他多还。

38 我是耶和华你们的 神， 曾经把你们从埃及地领出来， 要把迦南地赐给你们， 而且要作你们的 神。

39 "你的兄弟在你那里若是贫穷了， 卖身给你， 你不可逼他作奴仆的工作。

40 他在你那里要像雇工和寄居的一样； 他要服事你直到禧年。

41 到了禧年， 他和他的儿女要离开你， 归回他本家， 归回自己祖宗的地业。

42 因为他们是我的仆人， 是我从埃及地领出来的， 他们不可以卖作奴仆。

43 你不可严严地辖制他， 却要敬畏你的 神。

44 至于你需要的仆婢， 可以来自你们四围的列国， 你们可以从他们中间购买奴婢。

45 你们也可以从那些与你们住在一起的外人的儿女中， 或是从他们的家族中， 就是那些与你们在一起， 在你们境内所生的， 购买奴婢； 他们要作你们的产业。

46 你们要把他们留给你们的子孙作永远的产业， 你们要从他们中间取奴仆； 只是你们的兄弟以色列人， 你们却不可苛刻管辖。

47 "在你中间寄居的外人或是客旅若是富足起来， 你的兄弟在他那里却渐渐穷乏， 把自己卖给住在你那里寄居的外人或客旅的家族，

48 卖了自己以后， 他仍有赎回的权利； 他兄弟中的任何一个都可以赎他；

49 他的叔伯或是他叔伯的儿子可以赎他， 他家族中的骨肉至亲也可以赎他； 如果他自己的经济能力改善， 也可以自赎。

50 他要与买主计算， 从卖身那一年起， 直到禧年为止； 照着年数的多少， 按雇工的工价计算赎银。

51 如果卖身时还有很多年才到禧年， 他就要按着年数， 照他卖身的价银按比例偿还他的赎价。

52 如果距离禧年只有几年， 他就按着年数， 与买主计算， 按雇工的工价， 偿还他的赎价。

53 买主要像每年雇用的工人那样待他。不可在你眼前苛刻地管辖他。

54 如果他不在这些年间把自己赎回， 到了禧年， 也可以和他的儿女一同离去。

55 因为以色列人都是属我的仆人； 他们是我的仆人， 是我把他们从埃及地领了出来的； 我是耶和华你们的 神。"