Sinai & The Law

and in the seventh year a sabbath of rest is to the land, a sabbath to Jehovah; thy field thou dost not sow, and thy vineyard thou dost not prune;

the spontaneous growth of thy harvest thou dost not reap, and the grapes of thy separated thing thou dost not gather, a year of rest it is to the land.

`And the sabbath of the land hath been to you for food, to thee, and to thy man-servant, and to thy handmaid, and to thy hireling, and to thy settler, who are sojourning with thee;

and to thy cattle, and to the beast which is in thy land, is all thine increase for food.

`And thou hast numbered to thee seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years have been to thee nine and forty years,

and thou hast caused a trumpet of shouting to pass over in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month; in the day of the atonements ye do cause a trumpet to pass over through all your land;

and ye have hallowed the year, the fiftieth year; and ye have proclaimed liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; a jubilee it is to you; and ye have turned back each unto his possession; yea, each unto his family ye do turn back.

`A jubilee it is , the fiftieth year, a year it is to you; ye sow not, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;

for a jubilee it is , holy it is to you; out of the field ye eat its increase;

in the year of this jubilee ye turn back each unto his possession.

`And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

by the number of years after the jubilee thou dost buy from thy fellow; by the number of the years of increase he doth sell to thee;

according to the multitude of the years thou dost multiply its price, and according to the fewness of the years thou dost diminish its price; for a number of increases he is selling to thee;

and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I am Jehovah your God.

`And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,

and the land hath given its fruit, and ye have eaten to satiety, and have dwelt confidently on it.

`And when ye say, What do we eat in the seventh year, lo, we do not sow, nor gather our increase?

then I have commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it hath made the increase for three years;

and ye have sown the eighth year, and have eaten of the old increase; until the ninth year, until the coming in of its increase, ye do eat the old.

`And the land is not sold--to extinction, for the land is Mine, for sojourners and settlers are ye with Me;

and in all the land of your possession a redemption ye do give to the land.

`When thy brother becometh poor, and hath sold his possession, then hath his redeemer who is near unto him come, and he hath redeemed the sold thing of his brother;

and when a man hath no redeemer, and his own hand hath attained, and he hath found as sufficient for its redemption,

then he hath reckoned the years of its sale, and hath given back that which is over to the man to whom he sold it , and he hath returned to his possession.

`And if his hand hath not found sufficiency to give back to him, then hath his sold thing been in the hand of him who buyeth it till the year of jubilee; and it hath gone out in the jubilee, and he hath returned to his possession.