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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Leviticus 25 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/leviticus/25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/leviticus/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Leviticus 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../leviticus/24.htm" title="Leviticus 24">◄</a> Leviticus 25 <a href="../leviticus/26.htm" title="Leviticus 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/leviticus/25.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The Sabbath Year</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the LORD said to him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you have entered the land I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the LORD every seventh year. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>but during the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath year of complete rest. It is the LORD’s Sabbath. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards during that year. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And don’t store away the crops that grow on their own or gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. The land must have a year of complete rest. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own during its Sabbath. This applies to you, your male and female servants, your hired workers, and the temporary residents who live with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your livestock and the wild animals in your land will also be allowed to eat what the land produces.</p><p class="hdg">The Year of Jubilee</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven years, adding up to forty-nine years in all. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don’t gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>In the Year of Jubilee each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the number of years since the last jubilee. The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the LORD your God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“If you want to live securely in the land, follow my decrees and obey my regulations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then the land will yield large crops, and you will eat your fill and live securely in it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But you might ask, ‘What will we eat during the seventh year, since we are not allowed to plant or harvest crops that year?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Be assured that I will send my blessing for you in the sixth year, so the land will produce a crop large enough for three years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.</p><p class="hdg">Redemption of Property</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“The land must never be sold on a permanent basis, for the land belongs to me. You are only foreigners and tenant farmers working for me.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“With every purchase of land you must grant the seller the right to buy it back. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell some family land, then a close relative should buy it back for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>If there is no close relative to buy the land, but the person who sold it gets enough money to buy it back, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>he then has the right to redeem it from the one who bought it. The price of the land will be discounted according to the number of years until the next Year of Jubilee. In this way the original owner can then return to the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But if the original owner cannot afford to buy back the land, it will remain with the new owner until the next Year of Jubilee. In the jubilee year, the land must be returned to the original owners so they can return to their family land.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“Anyone who sells a house inside a walled town has the right to buy it back for a full year after its sale. During that year, the seller retains the right to buy it back. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But if it is not bought back within a year, the sale of the house within the walled town cannot be reversed. It will become the permanent property of the buyer. It will not be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But a house in a village—a settlement without fortified walls—will be treated like property in the countryside. Such a house may be bought back at any time, and it must be returned to the original owner in the Year of Jubilee.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“The Levites always have the right to buy back a house they have sold within the towns allotted to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And any property that is sold by the Levites—all houses within the Levitical towns—must be returned in the Year of Jubilee. After all, the houses in the towns reserved for the Levites are the only property they own in all Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The open pastureland around the Levitical towns may never be sold. It is their permanent possession.</p><p class="hdg">Redemption of the Poor and Enslaved</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>“If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and cannot support himself, support him as you would a foreigner or a temporary resident and allow him to live with you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Do not charge interest or make a profit at his expense. Instead, show your fear of God by letting him live with you as your relative. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Remember, do not charge interest on money you lend him or make a profit on food you sell him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>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.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>“If one of your fellow Israelites falls into poverty and is forced to sell himself to you, do not treat him as a slave. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Treat him instead as a hired worker or as a temporary resident who lives with you, and he will serve you only until the Year of Jubilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>At that time he and his children will no longer be obligated to you, and they will return to their clans and go back to the land originally allotted to their ancestors. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>The people of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, so they must never be sold as slaves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Show your fear of God by not treating them harshly.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>“However, you may purchase male and female slaves from among the nations around you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>You may also purchase the children of temporary residents who live among you, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat them as slaves, but you must never treat your fellow Israelites this way.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>“Suppose a foreigner or temporary resident becomes rich while living among you. If any of your fellow Israelites fall into poverty and are forced to sell themselves to such a foreigner or to a member of his family, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>they still retain the right to be bought back, even after they have been purchased. They may be bought back by a brother, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>an uncle, or a cousin. In fact, anyone from the extended family may buy them back. They may also redeem themselves if they have prospered. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>They will negotiate the price of their freedom with the person who bought them. The price will be based on the number of years from the time they were sold until the next Year of Jubilee—whatever it would cost to hire a worker for that period of time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>If many years still remain until the jubilee, they will repay the proper proportion of what they received when they sold themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, they will repay a small amount for their redemption. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>The foreigner must treat them as workers hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a foreigner to treat any of your fellow Israelites harshly. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>If any Israelites have not been bought back by the time the Year of Jubilee arrives, they and their children must be set free at that time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/leviticus/25-55.htm"><b>55</b></a></span>For the people of Israel belong to me. They are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">25:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement;</span><span class="ft"> see 23:27a and the note there.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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