Leviticus 25 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Sabbatic Year and Year of Jubilee

(Deu 15:1–11 )

Lev 25:1And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

Lev 25:2Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

Lev 25:3

Lev 25:3For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

Lev 25:4

Lev 25:4But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

Lev 25:5

Lev 25:5That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

Lev 25:6

Lev 25:6And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

Lev 25:7

Lev 25:7And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

Lev 25:8

Lev 25:8And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

Lev 25:9

Lev 25:9Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land.

Lev 25:10

Lev 25:10And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.

Lev 25:11

Lev 25:11Let this fiftieth year be the Jubilee: no seed may be planted, and that which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes may not be taken from the uncared-for vines.

Lev 25:12

Lev 25:12For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.

Lev 25:13

Lev 25:13In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.

Lev 25:14

Lev 25:14And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

Lev 25:15

Lev 25:15Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.

Lev 25:16

Lev 25:16If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.

Lev 25:17

Lev 25:17And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

Lev 25:18

Lev 25:18So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

Lev 25:19

Lev 25:19And the land will give her fruit, and you will have food in full measure and be safe in the land.

Lev 25:20

Lev 25:20And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

Lev 25:21

Lev 25:21Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

Lev 25:22

Lev 25:22And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

The Law of Redemption

Lev 25:23

Lev 25:23No exchange of land may be for ever, for the land is mine, and you are as my guests, living with me for a time.

Lev 25:24

Lev 25:24Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.

Lev 25:25

Lev 25:25If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

Lev 25:26

Lev 25:26And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

Lev 25:27

Lev 25:27Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

Lev 25:28

Lev 25:28But if he is not able to get it back for himself, then it will be kept by him who gave a price for it, till the year of Jubilee; and in that year it will go back to its first owner and he will have his property again.

Lev 25:29

Lev 25:29And if a man gives his house in a walled town for money, he has the right to get it back for the space of a full year after he has given it up.

Lev 25:30

Lev 25:30And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.

Lev 25:31

Lev 25:31But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.

Lev 25:32

Lev 25:32But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

Lev 25:33

Lev 25:33And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.

Lev 25:34

Lev 25:34But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.

Of Poor Countrymen

Lev 25:35

Lev 25:35And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.

Lev 25:36

Lev 25:36Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

Lev 25:37

Lev 25:37Do not take interest on the money which you let him have or on the food which you give him.

Lev 25:38

Lev 25:38I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.

Lev 25:39

Lev 25:39And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;

Lev 25:40

Lev 25:40But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;

Lev 25:41

Lev 25:41Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

Lev 25:42

Lev 25:42For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.

Lev 25:43

Lev 25:43Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.

Lev 25:44

Lev 25:44But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

Lev 25:45

Lev 25:45And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.

Lev 25:46

Lev 25:46And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.

Of Redeeming a Poor Man

Lev 25:47

Lev 25:47And if one from another nation living among you gets wealth, and your countryman, at his side, becomes poor and gives himself for money to the man from another nation or to one of his family;

Lev 25:48

Lev 25:48After he has given himself he has the right to be made free, for a price, by one of his brothers,

Lev 25:49

Lev 25:49Or his father's brother, or the son of his father's brother, or any near relation; or if he gets money, he may make himself free.

Lev 25:50

Lev 25:50And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.

Lev 25:51

Lev 25:51If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.

Lev 25:52

Lev 25:52And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

Lev 25:53

Lev 25:53And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.

Lev 25:54

Lev 25:54And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

Lev 25:55

Lev 25:55For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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