Darby Bible Translation

New American Standard Bible

The Sabbatic Year

And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

The Sabbatic Year and Year of Jubilee

The LORD then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying,

Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall celebrate a sabbath to Jehovah.

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“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the LORD.

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Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof,

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‘Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop,

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but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune.

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but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard.

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That which springeth up from the scattered seed of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the land.

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‘Your harvest’s aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year.

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And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle,

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‘All of you shall have the sabbath products of the land for food; yourself, and your male and female slaves, and your hired man and your foreign resident, those who live as aliens with you.

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and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food.

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‘Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

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The Year of Jubilee

And thou shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be unto thee forty-nine years.

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‘You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.

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Then shalt thou cause the loud sound of the trumpet to go forth in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement shall ye cause the trumpet to go forth throughout your land.

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‘You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.

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And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; a [year of] jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family;

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‘You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

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a year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap its aftergrowth, nor gather [the fruit of] its undressed vines.

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‘You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.

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For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of the field shall ye eat its produce.

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‘For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its crops out of the field.

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Return of Property

In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

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‘On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.

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And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

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‘If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.

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According to the number of years since the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of the produce, he shall sell unto thee.

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‘Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops.

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According to the greater number of the years, thou shalt increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt diminish the price of it; for it is the number of crops that he selleth unto thee.

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‘In proportion to the extent of the years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its price, for it is a number of crops he is selling to you.

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And ye shall not oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am Jehovah your God.

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‘So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

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The Blessing of Obedience

And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely.

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‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land.

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And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat and be satisfied, and dwell therein securely.

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‘Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

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And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;

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‘But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?”

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then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years;

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then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years.

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and ye shall sow in the eighth year, and ye shall eat of the old fruit until the ninth year; until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old.

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‘When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in.

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The Law of Redemption

And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

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The Law of Redemption

‘The land, moreover, shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are but aliens and sojourners with Me.

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And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

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‘Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

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If thy brother grow poor, and sell of his possession, then shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that which his brother sold.

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‘If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

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And if the man have no one having right of redemption, and his hand have acquired and found what sufficeth for its redemption,

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‘Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

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then shall he reckon the years since the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and so return unto his possession.

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then he shall calculate the years since its sale and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and so return to his property.

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And if his hand have not found what sufficeth for him to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of the purchaser, until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

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‘But if he has not found sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hands of its purchaser until the year of jubilee; but at the jubilee it shall revert, that he may return to his property.

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And if any one sell a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he shall have the right of redemption up to the end of the year of the sale thereof; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.

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‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

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But if it be not redeemed until a whole year is complete, 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 jubilee.

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‘But if it is not bought back for him within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city passes permanently to its purchaser throughout his generations; it does not revert in the jubilee.

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But the houses in villages that have no wall round about them shall be reckoned as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

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‘The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall shall be considered as open fields; they have redemption rights and revert in the jubilee.

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But as to the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites shall have a perpetual right of redemption.

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‘As for cities of the Levites, the Levites have a permanent right of redemption for the houses of the cities which are their possession.

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And if any one redeem from one of the Levites, then the house that was sold, in the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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‘What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

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And the field of the suburbs of their cities shall not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

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‘But pasture fields of their cities shall not be sold, for that is their perpetual possession.

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Redemption of the Poor

And if thy brother grow poor, and he be fallen into decay beside thee, then thou shalt relieve him, [be he] stranger or sojourner, that he may live beside thee.

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Of Poor Countrymen

‘Now in case a countryman of yours becomes poor and his means with regard to you falter, then you are to sustain him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.

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Thou shalt take no usury nor increase of him; and thou shalt fear thy God; that thy brother may live beside thee.

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‘Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

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Thy money shalt thou not give him upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

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‘You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

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I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.

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‘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.

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Redemption of Bondmen

And if thy brother grow poor beside thee, and be sold unto thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

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‘If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

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as a hired servant, as a sojourner, shall he be with thee; until the year of jubilee shall he serve thee.

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‘He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

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Then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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‘He shall then go out from you, he and his sons with him, and shall go back to his family, that he may return to the property of his forefathers.

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For they are my bondmen, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as [men] sell bondmen.

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‘For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.

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Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; and thou shalt fear thy God.

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‘You shall not rule over him with severity, but are to revere your God.

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And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have -- of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.

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‘As for your male and female slaves whom you may have — you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.

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Moreover of the children of them that dwell as sojourners with you, of them may ye buy, and of their family that is with you, which they beget in your land, and they shall be your possession.

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‘Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.

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And ye shall leave them as an inheritance to your children after you, to inherit them as a possession: these may ye make your bondmen for ever; but as for your brethren, the children of Israel, ye shall not rule over one another with rigour.

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‘You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.

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Redemption of Servants

And if a stranger or sojourner become wealthy beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion of the stranger's family,

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Of Redeeming a Poor Man

‘Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger’s family,

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after that he is sold there shall be right of redemption for him; one of his brethren may redeem him.

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then he shall have redemption right after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him,

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Either his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his next relations of his family may redeem him; or if his means be sufficient, he may redeem himself.

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or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or one of his blood relatives from his family may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

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And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.

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‘He then with his purchaser shall calculate from the year when he sold himself to him up to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall correspond to the number of years. It is like the days of a hired man that he shall be with him.

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If there are yet many years, according unto them shall he return his redemption [money] out of the money that he was bought for;

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‘If there are still many years, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

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and if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according unto his [remaining] years [of service] shall he give him back his redemption [money].

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and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.

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As a hired servant shall he be with him year by year; [his master] shall not rule with rigour over him before thine eyes.

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‘Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight.

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And if he be not redeemed in this manner, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.

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‘Even if he is not redeemed by these means, he shall still go out in the year of jubilee, he and his sons with him.

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For the children of Israel are servants unto me; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

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‘For the sons of Israel are My servants; they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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