1 Then the LORD {YHWH, Lawgiver} spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai {Sinai: the place of covenant}, saying,
2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you enter the land which I am giving to you, then the land shall rest—a sabbath {shabbat: appointed sacred cessation} to the LORD {YHWH, Covenant Sovereign}.
3 For six years you shall sow your field {sadeh: cultivated land}, and for six years you shall prune your vineyard {kerem: grape plantation}, and you shall gather its produce.
4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land—a sabbath to the LORD {YHWH, Supreme Owner}. Your field {sadekha: cultivated plot} you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune.
5 You shall not reap the volunteer crop {sefiakh: self-sown growths} of your harvest, nor shall you gather the grapes of your unpruned vine. It shall be a year of sabbath rest {shabbaton: complete cessation} for the land.
6 And the sabbath {shabbat: sabbath rest} of the land shall be for you all—for food, for yourself, for your male servant, for your female servant, for your hired worker, and for your resident—and for the sojourners {gerim: temporary dwellers} who live with you.
7 And for your livestock and for the wild animals {chayyah: untamed creatures} that are in your land, all its produce shall be {tihyeh: provision by decree} for food.
8 And you shall count for yourself seven sabbath years{shabbətot shanim: rest cycles}, seven times seven years; and the sabbath-year cycles shall be for you forty-nine{tē-šāʿ wə-ar-ba-ʿîm: cumulative total} years.
9 And you shall cause the trumpet {shofar: ram’s horn} to sound in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; on the Day of Atonement {Yom Kippur: purification observance} you shall cause the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty {dror: release from bondage} throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a Jubilee {yovel: year of release} for you, and each of you shall return to his property and to his family.
11 It is a jubilee {yovel: release year}; the fiftieth year shall be for you. You must not sow, nor reap its self-sown growth {sefiheha: volunteer crops}, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vine.
12 For it is a jubilee{yovel: release year}; it will be holy{kodesh: set apart} for you. From the field, you will eat its produce.
13 In this Year of Jubilee {yovel: release year}, each shall return—every man to his property {achuzzah: ancestral inheritance}.
14 And when you sell anything to your fellow {amit: covenant peer} or buy from the hand of your fellow, do not oppress {tonu: act fraudulently} any man, his brother.
15 By the number of years after the Jubilee {hayovel: year of liberty}, you shall purchase from your fellow {amitekha: covenant peer}; according to the number of years of harvests, it shall be sold to you.
16 In accordance with the abundance of years, you shall increase his purchase {miknato: right of tenure}, and in accordance with the scarcity of years, you shall diminish his purchase, for it is the number {mispar: fixed quota} of harvests that he is selling to you.
17 And you shall not oppress {tonu: exploit} any man his fellow, but you shall fear the LORD your God {YHWH Eloheikhem, Covenant Guardian}, for I am the LORD your God.
18 And you shall carry out my{YHWH, Sovereign Lawgiver} statutes and keep my judgments{mishpatai: judicial rulings}, and you shall do them, and you will dwell on the land securely.
19 And the land will give her fruit, and you will eat to satisfaction {lasova: being completely full}, and you will dwell {yashavtem: settle permanently} securely upon her.
20 And if you say, “What will we eat in the seventh year {hashvi’it: sabbatical cycle}?” Behold, we will not sow nor will we gather our produce {tevuah: agricultural yield}.
21 And I will command My blessing {birchah: divine favor} upon you in the sixth year, and it will produce the crop for three years {shanim: complete cycles}.
22 You will sow in the eighth year {ha-šə-mī-nīt: eighth year}, and you will eat from the produce until the ninth year; until its coming you will eat the old {yā-šān: aged grain supply}.
23 And the land shall not be sold for extinction {litsmitut: permanent loss}, for the land is Mine {YHWH, Sovereign Owner}; for you are sojourners and resident aliens with Me.
24 And in all the land of your possession, you shall provide redemption {geulah: right of buying back} for the land {erets: inherited territory}.
25 If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer {go’alo: family rescuer} shall come to him and shall redeem what his brother sold {mimkar: transfer of possession}.
26 And if a man has no redeemer {go’el: kinsman-rescuer} for himself, and he attains and finds enough for his redemption {ge’ullato: right of recovery}.
27 And he shall calculate the years of his sale, and restore the surplus {odef: excess amount} to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his property {achuzah: hereditary land holding}.
28 And if he does not find {matsa: raise resources} sufficient means to restore it to him, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of the buyer until the Jubilee year; and it shall go out {yatsa: release property} in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his possession.
29 And if a man sells a dwelling house {beit-moshav: permanent residence} in a walled city, then its right of redemption {ge’ulah: privilege to repurchase} shall remain until the completion of a full year from its sale. For the days that make up that year, his redemption right shall stand.
30 And if the house is not redeemed before a full year has elapsed for its owner, then the house in the walled city shall be established permanently {latsmitut: perpetually without reversal} for the buyer and his generations, and it shall not be released in the Jubilee {yovel: fiftieth-year release}.
31 But the houses of the villages {chatserim: small rural settlements} that have no wall around them shall be considered as belonging to the open fields of the land. There shall be a redemption, and in the Jubilee {yovel: year of release} it shall be released.
32 And the cities of the Levites {ha-leviyim: Levitical tribe}, and the houses in the cities of their possession, shall be an everlasting redemption {geullat: permanent repurchase right} for the Levites.
33 And if one of the Levites redeems it, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall be released in the Jubilee {yovel: restoration year}, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their inheritance {akhuzah: hereditary property} among the sons of Israel.
34 But the field of the pastureland {migrash: grazing area} of their cities shall not be sold, for it is an everlasting possession {achuzzat: permanent holding} to them.
35 And when your brother becomes poor and his hand falters with you, then you shall strengthen him, whether he is a sojourner {ger: non-native person} or a resident {toshav: settler}, so that he may live with you.
36 Do not take interest or increase from him, but fear your God {Eloheikha, Moral Authority}, and let your brother {achikha: covenant kin} live with you.
37 You shall not give your money to him with interest {neshekh: extra charge}, nor shall you give your food with increase {marbit: additional profit}.
38 I am the LORD {YHWH, Covenant Redeemer} your God, who brought you out {hotseʾti: powerful deliverance} from the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.
39 And if your brother {akhikha: familial equal} becomes poor while with you and sells himself to you, you must not make him serve {avodat: compulsory labor} as a slave.
40 As a hired worker {sakhir: contracted laborer} or as a temporary resident, he shall be with you until the year of Jubilee {yovel: liberation year} when he shall serve with you.
41 And he shall go out from you, together with his sons, and he shall return {veshav: initial restoration} to his family, and to the property {akhuzat: tribal inheritance} of his ancestors he shall return.
42 For they are My {YHWH, Sovereign Redeemer} servants {avaday: covenant bondservants} whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as a slave.
43 You shall not rule over him with harshness {befarekh: crushing severity}; rather, you shall fear your God {Elohim, Upholder of Equity}.
44 And your male slave and your female slave who are for you must come from the nations{hagoyim: non-Israelite peoples} around you; from them you may acquire{tiknu: obtain by contract} a male slave or a female slave.
45 And also from the children of the sojourners {toshavim: temporary residents} who dwell with you, you may acquire from them and from their families {mishpachta: clan units} that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they shall become for you a possession.
46 And you shall give them as an inheritance{nachalah: enduring entitlement} to your children after you, making them a permanent possession, and you shall set them to work; but with your fellow Israelites you shall not rule over any one with harshness{parekh: crushing oppression}.
47 And if the hand {yad: means and resources} of a sojourner {ger: resident alien} or settler among you prospers and your brother becomes poor and is sold to that sojourner or settler among you or to a branch of the family of the sojourner.
48 After he is sold, there shall be redemption{geullah: familial restoration} for him; one of his brothers{achav: nearest kinsmen} may redeem him.
49 Or his uncle, or the son of his uncle, may redeem him. Or any close relative {mishe’er: near relative} from his flesh, from his clan, may redeem him. Or if his hand {yad: economic power} has attained, then he shall be redeemed.
50 He shall calculate with his buyer from the year of his sale to him until the Jubilee year; and the money {kesef: silver payment} of his sale shall be proportional to the number of years, and he shall be with him like a hired worker {sakhir: temporary laborer}.