Bible Verses About Emancipation

"'You are to count seven Shabbats of years, seven times seven years, that is, forty-nine years.

Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom-Kippur, you are to sound a blast on the shofar; you are to sound the shofar all through your land;

and you are to consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a yovel for you; you will return everyone to the land he owns, and everyone is to return to his family.

That fiftieth year will be a yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines;

because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you; whatever the fields produce will be food for all of you.

In this year of yovel, every one of you is to return to the land he owns.

"'If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, neither of you is to exploit the other.

Rather, you are to take into account the number of years after the yovel when you buy land from your neighbor, and he is to sell to you according to the number of years crops will be raised.

If the number of years remaining is large, you will raise the price; if few years remain, you will lower it; because what he is really selling you is the number of crops to be produced.

Thus you are not to take advantage of each other, but you are to fear your God; for I am ADONAI your God.