25:1 The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai: 25:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath 1 to the Lord. 25:3 Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce, 2 25:4 but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest 3 – a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or 4 prune your vineyard. 25:5 You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned 5 vines; the land must have a year of complete rest. 25:6 You may have the Sabbath produce 6 of the land to eat – you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, 7 25:7 your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land – all its produce will be for you 8 to eat.
25:8 “‘You must count off 9 seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, 10 and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years. 11 25:9 You must sound loud horn blasts 12 – in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement – you must sound the horn in your entire land. 25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, 13 and you must proclaim a release 14 in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; 15 each one of you must return 16 to his property and each one of you must return to his clan. 25:11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. 17 25:12 Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you – you may eat its produce 18 from the field.
25:13 “‘In this year of jubilee you must each return 19 to your property. 25:14 If you make a sale 20 to your fellow citizen 21 or buy 22 from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother. 23 25:15 You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since 24 the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. 25