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When you enter the land that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is giving you, you shall honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span> by not cultivating the land every seventh year. </span><span class="v2_25_3"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.3" class="v2_25_3">3</span>You shall plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather your crops for six years. </span><span class="v2_25_4"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.4" class="v2_25_4">4</span>But the seventh year is to be a year of complete rest for the land, a year dedicated to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards. </span><span class="v2_25_5"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.5" class="v2_25_5">5</span>Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without being planted, and do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines; it is a year of complete rest for the land. </span><span class="v2_25_6"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.6" class="v2_25_6">6</span>Although the land has not been cultivated during that year, it will provide food for you, your slaves, your hired men, the foreigners living with you, </span><span class="v2_25_7"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.7" class="v2_25_7">7</span>your domestic animals, and the wild animals in your fields. Everything that it produces may be eaten.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Year of Restoration</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_8"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.8" class="v2_25_8">8</span>Count seven times seven years, a total of forty-nine years. </span><span class="v2_25_9"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.9" class="v2_25_9">9</span>Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, send someone to blow a trumpet throughout the whole land. </span><span class="v2_25_10"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.10" class="v2_25_10">10</span>In this way you shall set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to the original owner or the descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves shall return to their families. </span><span class="v2_25_11"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.11" class="v2_25_11">11</span>You shall not plant your fields or harvest the grain that grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards. </span><span class="v2_25_12"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.12" class="v2_25_12">12</span>The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only what the fields produce of themselves.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_13"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.13" class="v2_25_13">13</span>In this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to its original owner. </span><span class="v2_25_14"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.14" class="v2_25_14">14</span>So when you sell land to an Israelite or buy land, do not deal unfairly. </span><span class="v2_25_15"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.15" class="v2_25_15">15</span>The price is to be set according to the number of years the land can produce crops before the next Year of Restoration. </span><span class="v2_25_16"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.16" class="v2_25_16">16</span>If there are many years, the price shall be higher, but if there are only a few years, the price shall be lower, because what is being sold is the number of crops the land can produce. </span><span class="v2_25_17"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.17" class="v2_25_17">17</span>Do not cheat an Israelite, but obey the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Problem of the Seventh Year</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_18"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.18" class="v2_25_18">18</span>Obey all the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s laws and commands, so that you may live in safety in the land. </span><span class="v2_25_19"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.19" class="v2_25_19">19</span>The land will produce its crops, and you will have all you want to eat and will live in safety.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_20"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.20" class="v2_25_20">20</span>But someone may ask what there will be to eat during the seventh year, when no fields are planted and no crops gathered. </span><span class="v2_25_21"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.21" class="v2_25_21">21</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will produce enough food for two years. </span><span class="v2_25_22"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.22" class="v2_25_22">22</span>When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating what you harvested during the sixth year, and you will have enough to eat until the crops you plant that year are harvested.</span></p><h3 class="s">Restoration of Property</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_23"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.23" class="v2_25_23">23</span>Your land must not be sold on a permanent basis, because you do not own it; it belongs to God, and you are like foreigners who are allowed to make use of it.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_24"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.24" class="v2_25_24">24</span>When land is sold, the right of the original owner to buy it back must be recognized. </span><span class="v2_25_25"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.25" class="v2_25_25">25</span>If any of you Israelites become poor and are forced to sell your land, your closest relative is to buy it back. </span><span class="v2_25_26"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.26" class="v2_25_26">26</span>If you have no relative to buy it back, you may later become prosperous and have enough to buy it back yourself. </span><span class="v2_25_27"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.27" class="v2_25_27">27</span>In that case you must pay to the one who bought it a sum that will make up for the years remaining until the next Year of Restoration, when you would in any event recover your land. </span><span class="v2_25_28"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.28" class="v2_25_28">28</span>But if you do not have enough money to buy the land back, it remains under the control of the one who bought it until the next Year of Restoration. In that year it will be returned to its original owner.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_29"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.29" class="v2_25_29">29</span>If you sell a house in a walled city, you have the right to buy it back during the first full year from the date of sale. </span><span class="v2_25_30"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.30" class="v2_25_30">30</span>But if you do not buy it back within the year, you lose the right of repurchase, and the house becomes the permanent property of the purchasers and their descendants; it will not be returned in the Year of Restoration. </span><span class="v2_25_31"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.31" class="v2_25_31">31</span>But houses in unwalled villages are to be treated like fields; the original owner has the right to buy them back, and they are to be returned in the Year of Restoration. </span><span class="v2_25_32"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.32" class="v2_25_32">32</span>However, Levites have the right to buy back at any time their property in the cities assigned to them. </span><span class="v2_25_33"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.33" class="v2_25_33">33</span>If a house in one of these cities is sold by a Levite and is not bought back, it must be returned in the Year of Restoration,<a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.25.33!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> because the houses which the Levites own in their cities are their permanent property among the people of Israel. </span><span class="v2_25_34"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.34" class="v2_25_34">34</span>But the pasture land around the Levite cities shall never be sold; it is their property forever.</span></p><h3 class="s">Loans to the Poor</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_35"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.35" class="v2_25_35">35</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.25.35!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> If any Israelites living near you become poor and cannot support themselves, you must provide for them as you would for a hired worker, so that they can continue to live near you. </span><span class="v2_25_36"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.36" class="v2_25_36">36</span>Do not charge Israelites any interest, but obey God and let them live near you. </span><span class="v2_25_37"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.37" class="v2_25_37">37</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.25.37!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Do not make them pay interest on the money you lend them, and do not make a profit on the food you sell them. </span><span class="v2_25_38"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.38" class="v2_25_38">38</span>This is the command of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God, who brought you out of Egypt in order to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.</span></p><h3 class="s">Release of Slaves</h3><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_39"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.39" class="v2_25_39">39</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Lev.25.39!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> If any Israelites living near you become so poor that they sell themselves to you as a slave, you shall not make them do the work of a slave. </span><span class="v2_25_40"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.40" class="v2_25_40">40</span>They shall stay with you as hired workers and serve you until the next Year of Restoration. </span><span class="v2_25_41"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.41" class="v2_25_41">41</span>At that time they and their children shall leave you and return to their family and to the property of their ancestors. </span><span class="v2_25_42"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.42" class="v2_25_42">42</span>The people of Israel are the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s slaves, and he brought them out of Egypt; they must not be sold into slavery. </span><span class="v2_25_43"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.43" class="v2_25_43">43</span>Do not treat them harshly, but obey your God. </span><span class="v2_25_44"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.44" class="v2_25_44">44</span>If you need slaves, you may buy them from the nations around you. </span><span class="v2_25_45"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.45" class="v2_25_45">45</span>You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property, </span><span class="v2_25_46"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.46" class="v2_25_46">46</span>and you may leave them as an inheritance to your children, whom they must serve as long as they live. But you must not treat any Israelites harshly.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v2_25_47"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.47" class="v2_25_47">47</span>Suppose a foreigner living with you becomes rich, while some Israelites become poor and sell themselves as slaves to that foreigner or to a member of that foreigner's family. </span><span class="v2_25_48"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.48" class="v2_25_48">48</span>After they are sold, they still have the right to be bought back. A brother </span><span class="v2_25_49"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.49" class="v2_25_49">49</span>or an uncle or a cousin or another close relative may buy them back; or if they themselves earn enough, they may buy their own freedom. </span><span class="v2_25_50"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.50" class="v2_25_50">50</span>They must consult the one who bought them, and they must count the years from the time they sold themselves until the next Year of Restoration and must set the price for their release on the basis of the wages paid hired workers. </span><span class="v2_25_51"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.51-Lev.25.52" class="v2_25_51">51-52</span>They must refund a part of the purchase price according to the number of years left, </span><span class="v2_25_53"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.53" class="v2_25_53">53</span>as if they had been hired on an annual basis. Their master must not treat them harshly. </span><span class="v2_25_54"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.54" class="v2_25_54">54</span>If they are not set free in any of these ways, they and their children must be set free in the next Year of Restoration. </span><span class="v2_25_55"><span class="reftext" id="Lev.25.55" class="v2_25_55">55</span>Israelites cannot be permanent slaves, because the people of Israel are the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s slaves. He brought them out of Egypt; he is the <span class="nd">Lord</span> their God.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">25.33: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">If a house … Restoration; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew unclear.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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