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Leviticus 25:1 (ERVEN) Easy to Read - English

1 The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai. He said,
2 "Tell the Israelites: When you enter the land that I am giving to you, you must let the land have a special time of rest. This will be a special time of rest to honor the Lord.
3 You will plant seed in your field for six years. You will trim your vineyards for six years and bring in its fruits.
4 But during the seventh year, you will let the land rest. This will be a special time of rest to honor the Lord. You must not plant seed in your field or trim your vineyards.
5 You must not cut the crops that grow by themselves after your harvest. You must not gather the grapes from your vines that are not trimmed. The land will have a year of rest.
6 "The land will have a year of rest, but you will still have enough food. There will be enough food for your men and women servants. There will be food for your hired workers and for the foreigners living in your country.
7 And there will be enough food for your cattle and other animals to eat.
8 "You will also count seven groups of seven years. This will be 49 years. During that time there will be seven years of rest for the land.
9 On the Day of Atonement, you must blow a ram's horn. That will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. You must blow the ram's horn through the whole country.
10 You will make the 50 year a special year. You will announce freedom for everyone living in your country. This time will be called 'Jubilee.' Each of you will go back to your own property. And each of you will go back to your own family.
11 The 50 year will be a special celebration for you. Don't plant seeds, or harvest the crops that grow by themselves, or gather grapes from the vines that are not trimmed.
12 That year is Jubilee. It will be a holy time for you. You will eat the crops that come from the field.
13 In the year of Jubilee, you will go back to your own property.
14 "Don't cheat your neighbors when you sell your land to them. Don't cheat one another when you buy or sell land.
15 If you want to buy your neighbor's land, count the number of years since the last Jubilee, and use that number to decide the right price. You are only buying the rights for harvesting crops {until the next Jubilee}.
16 If there are many years {before the next Jubilee}, the price will be high. If the years are few, the price will be lower. So your neighbor is really only selling a number of crops to you. {At the next Jubilee the land will again belong to that family.} 17You must not cheat each other. You must honor your God. I am the Lord your God.
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18 "Remember my laws and rules. Obey them and you will live safely in your country.
19 And the land will produce good crops for you. Then you will have plenty of food, and you will live safely on the land.
20 "But maybe you will say, 'If we don't plant seeds or gather our crops, we will not have anything to eat during the seventh year.'
21 I will order my blessing to come to you during the sixth year. The land will continue growing crops for three years.
22 When you plant in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the old crop. You will eat the old crop until the ninth year, when the crop {you planted in the eighth year} comes in.
23 "The land really belongs to me, so you cannot sell it permanently. You are only foreigners and travelers living on my land with me.
24 People might sell their land, but the family will always get their land back.
25 If someone in your country becomes very poor and must sell their property, a close relative must come and buy it back.
26 If there is not a close relative to buy back the land, the person might get enough money to buy it back.
27 Then the years must be counted since the land was sold. That number must be used to decide how much to pay for the land. The person must then buy back the land, and it will be their property again.
28 But if this first owner cannot find enough money to buy the land back, it will stay in the hands of the one who bought it until the year of Jubilee. Then during that special celebration, the land will go back {to the first owner's family}. So the property will again belong to the right family.
29 "Anyone who sells a home in a walled city still has the right to get it back until a full year after it was sold. Their right to get the house back will continue one year.
30 But if the owner does not buy back the house before a full year is finished, the house that is in the walled city will belong to the one who bought it and to their descendants. The house will not go back to the first owner at the time of Jubilee.
31 Towns without walls around them will be treated like open fields. So houses built in these small towns will go back to the first owners at the time of Jubilee.
32 "But about the cities of the Levites: The Levites can buy back at any time their houses in the cities that belong to them.
33 If someone buys a house from a Levite, that house in the Levites' city will again belong to the Levites at the time of Jubilee. This is because houses in Levite cities belong to those from the tribe of Levi. The Israelites gave these cities to the Levites.
34 Also, the fields and pastures around the Levite cities cannot be sold. They belong to the Levites forever.
35 "If anyone from your own country becomes too poor to support themselves, you must let them live with you like a visitor.
36 Don't charge them any interest on money you might loan to them. Respect your God and let those from your own country live with you.
37 Don't charge them interest on any money you lend them. And don't try to make a profit from the food you sell them.
38 I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of the land of Egypt to give the land of Canaan to you and to become your God.
39 "If anyone from your own country becomes so poor that they must sell themselves to you, don't make them work like slaves.
40 They will be like hired workers and visitors with you until the year of Jubilee.
41 Then they can leave you, take their children, and go back to their family. They can go back to the property of their ancestors,
42 because they are my servants. I brought them out of slavery in Egypt. They must not become slaves again.
43 You must not be a cruel master to them. You must respect your God.
44 "About your men and women slaves: You may get men and women slaves from the other nations around you.
45 Also, you may get children as slaves if they come from the families of the foreigners living in your land. These child slaves will belong to you.
46 You may even pass these foreign slaves on to your children after you die so that they will belong to them. They will be your slaves forever. You may make slaves of these foreigners. But you must not be a cruel master over your own brothers, the Israelites.
47 "Maybe a foreigner or visitor among you becomes rich. Or maybe someone from your own country becomes so poor that they sell themselves as slaves to a foreigner living among you or to a member of a foreigner's family.
48 These people have the right to be bought back and become free. Someone from their own country can buy them back.
49 Or their uncle, their cousin, or one of their close relatives from their family can buy him back. Or if they get enough money, they can pay the money themselves and become free again.
50 "You must count the years from the time they sold themselves to the foreigner up to the next year of Jubilee. Use that number to decide the price, because really the person only 'hired' them for a few years.
51 If there are still many years before the year of Jubilee, the one sold must give back a large part of the price. It all depends on the numbers of years.
52 If only a few years are left until the year of Jubilee, the one who was sold must pay a small part of the original price.
53 But that person will live like a hired worker with the foreigner every year. Don't let the foreigner be a cruel master over that person.
54 "Those who sold themselves will become free, even if no one buys them back. At the year of Jubilee they and their children will become free.
55 This is because the Israelites are my servants. They are the servants who I brought out of slavery in Egypt. I am the Lord your God!
1 And the LORD H3068 EDS spoke H1696 W-VPY3MS unto H413 PREP Moses H4872 in mount H2022 Sinai H5514 , saying H559 L-VQFC ,
2 Speak H1696 VPFC unto H413 PREP the children H1121 of Israel H3478 , and say H559 unto H413 PREP them , When H3588 CONJ ye come H935 into H413 PREP the land H776 D-GFS which H834 RPRO I H589 PPRO-1MS give H5414 VQPMS you , then shall the land H776 D-GFS keep H7673 a sabbath H7676 unto the LORD H3068 .
3 Six H8337 RFS years H8141 NFP thou shalt sow H2232 thy field H7704 , and six H8337 W-RFS years H8141 NFP thou shalt prune H2168 thy vineyard H3754 , and gather in W-VQQ2MS the fruit H8393 thereof ;
4 But in the seventh H7637 year H8141 shall be H1961 VQY3MS a sabbath H7676 of rest H7677 unto the land H776 LD-NFS , a sabbath H7676 for the LORD H3068 L-EDS : thou shalt neither H3808 NADV sow H2232 thy field H7704 , nor H3808 NADV prune H2168 thy vineyard H3754 .
5 That which groweth of its own accord H5599 of thy harvest H7105 thou shalt not H3808 NADV reap H7114 , neither H3808 NADV gather H1219 the grapes H6025 of thy vine undressed H5139 : for it is H1961 VQY3MS a year H8141 of rest H7677 unto the land H776 .
6 And the sabbath H7676 of the land H776 D-GFS shall be H1961 W-VQQ3FS meat H402 L-NFS for you ; for thee , and for thy servant H5650 , and for thy maid H519 , and for thy hired servant H7916 , and for thy stranger H8453 that sojourneth H1481 with H5973 PREP-2FS thee ,
7 And for thy cattle H929 , and for the beast H2416 that H834 RPRO are in thy land H776 , shall all H3605 CMS the increase H8393 thereof be H1961 VQY3FS meat H398 L-VQFC .
8 And thou shalt number H5608 seven H7651 MFS sabbaths H7676 of years H8141 NFP unto thee , seven H7651 MFS times H6471 NFP seven H7651 MFS years H8141 NFP ; and the space H3117 CMP of the seven H7651 MFS sabbaths H7676 of years H8141 shall be H1961 W-VQQ3MS unto thee forty H705 W-MMP and nine H8672 MFS years H8141 NFS .
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet H7782 of the jubilee H8643 to sound H5674 on the tenth H6218 day of the seventh H7637 month H2320 BD-NMS , in the day H3117 B-NMS of atonement H3725 shall ye make the trumpet H7782 sound H5674 throughout all H3605 B-CMS your land H776 .
10 And ye shall hallow H6942 the fiftieth H2572 year H8141 , and proclaim H7121 liberty H1865 throughout all the land H776 B-NFS unto all H3605 L-CMS the inhabitants H3427 thereof : it H1931 PPRO-3FS shall be H1961 VQY3FS a jubilee H3104 unto you ; and ye shall return H7725 every man H376 NMS unto H413 PREP his possession H272 , and ye shall return H7725 every man H376 NMS unto H413 PREP his family H4940 .
11 A jubilee H3104 shall that H1931 PPRO-3FS fiftieth H2572 year H8141 be H1961 VQY3FS unto you : ye shall not H3808 NADV sow H2232 , neither H3808 W-NADV reap H7114 that which groweth of itself H5599 CMP-3FS in it , nor H3808 W-NADV gather H1219 the grapes in it of thy vine undressed H5139 .
12 For H3588 CONJ it H1931 PPRO-3FS is the jubilee H3104 ; it shall be H1961 VQY3FS holy H6944 unto you : ye shall eat H398 the increase H8393 thereof out of H4480 PREP the field H7704 D-NMS .
13 In the year H8141 B-CFS of this H2063 D-DFS jubilee H3104 ye shall return H7725 VQY2MP every man H376 NMS unto H413 PREP his possession H272 .
14 And if H3588 thou sell H4376 aught H4465 unto thy neighbor H5997 , or H176 CONJ buyest H7069 aught of thy neighbor\'s hand H3027 M-GFS , ye shall not H408 NPAR oppress H3238 one H376 NMS another H251 CMP-3MS :
15 According to the number H4557 B-CMS of years H8141 NFP after H310 ADV the jubilee H3104 thou shalt buy H7069 of thy neighbor H5997 , and according unto the number H4557 B-CMS of years H8141 of the fruits H8393 he shall sell H4376 unto thee :
16 According to H6310 L-CMS the multitude H7230 of years H8141 thou shalt increase H7235 the price H4736 thereof , and according to H6310 the fewness H4591 of years H8141 thou shalt diminish H4591 the price H4736 of it : for H3588 CONJ according to the number H4557 CMS of the years of the fruits H8393 doth he H1931 PPRO-3MS sell H4376 unto thee .
17 Ye shall not H3808 W-NPAR therefore oppress H3238 one H376 NMS another H5997 ; but thou shalt fear thy God H3372 : for H3588 CONJ I H589 PPRO-1MS am the LORD H3068 NAME-4MS your God H430 .
18 Wherefore ye shall do H6213 my statutes H2708 , and keep H8104 my judgments H4941 , and do H6213 them ; and ye shall dwell H3427 in H5921 PREP the land H776 D-GFS in safety H983 .
19 And the land H776 D-GFS shall yield H5414 her fruit H6529 , and ye shall eat H398 your fill H7648 , and dwell H3427 therein H5921 in safety H983 L-NMS .
20 And if H3588 W-CONJ ye shall say H559 VQY2MP , What H4100 IPRO shall we eat H398 the seventh H7637 year H8141 ? behold H2005 IJEC , we shall not H3808 NADV sow H2232 , nor H3808 W-NADV gather in our increase H8393 :
21 Then I will command H6680 my blessing H1293 upon you in the sixth H8345 year H8141 , and it shall bring forth fruit H8393 for three H7969 years H8141 .
22 And ye shall sow H2232 the eighth H8066 year H8141 , and eat H398 yet of H4480 PREP old H3465 fruit H8393 until H5704 PREP the ninth H8671 year H8141 ; until H5704 PREP her fruits H8393 come in H935 VQFC ye shall eat H398 of the old H3465 store .
23 The land H776 WD-GFS shall not H3808 NADV be sold H4376 forever H6783 : for H3588 CONJ the land H776 D-GFS is mine ; for H3588 CONJ ye H859 PPRO-2MS are strangers H1616 and sojourners H8453 with H5973 me .
24 And in all H3605 the land H776 GFS of your possession H272 ye shall grant H5414 a redemption H1353 for the land H776 .
25 If H3588 CONJ thy brother H251 CMS-2MS be waxen poor H4134 , and hath sold away H4376 some of his possession H272 , and if any of his kin H7138 come H935 to redeem H1350 it , then shall he redeem H1350 that which his brother sold H4465 .
26 And if H3588 CONJ the man H376 W-NMS have H1961 VQY3MS none to redeem H3808 NADV it , and himself H3027 CFS-3MS be able H4672 to redeem H1353 it ;
27 Then let him count H2803 the years H8141 of the sale H4465 thereof , and restore H7725 the surplus H5736 unto the man H376 LD-NMS to whom H834 RPRO he sold H4376 it ; that he may return H7725 W-VQQ3MS unto his possession H272 .
28 But if H518 W-PART he H3027 CFS-3MS be not able H3808 ADV to restore H7725 it to him , then that which is sold H4465 shall remain H1961 W-VQQ3MS in the hand H3027 B-CFS of him that hath bought H7069 it until H5704 PREP the year H8141 of jubilee H3104 : and in the jubilee H3104 it shall go out H3318 , and he shall return H7725 W-VQQ3MS unto his possession H272 .
29 And if H3588 CONJ a man H376 W-NMS sell H4376 a dwelling H4186 house H1004 CMS in a walled H2346 city H5892 GFS , then he may redeem H1961 W-VQQ3FS it within H5704 PREP a whole H8552 year H8141 after it is sold H4465 ; within a full year H3117 NMP may he redeem H1961 VQY3FS it .
30 And if H518 W-PART it be not H3808 ADV redeemed H1350 within H5704 PREP the space H4390 of a full H8549 year H8141 NFS , then the house H1004 D-NMS that H834 RPRO is in the walled H2346 city H5892 BD-NFS shall be established H6965 forever H6783 to him that bought H7069 it throughout his generations H1755 : it shall not H3808 ADV go out H3318 VQY3MS in the jubilee H3104 .
31 But the houses H1004 of the villages H2691 which H834 RPRO have no H369 NPAR wall H2346 round about H5439 ADV them shall be counted H2803 as H5921 PREP the fields H7704 CMS of the country H776 D-GFS : they may be H1961 VQY3FS redeemed H1353 , and they shall go out H3318 VQY3MS in the jubilee H3104 .
32 Notwithstanding the cities H5892 of the Levites H3881 , and the houses H1004 of the cities H5892 of their possession H272 , may the Levites H3881 redeem H1961 VQY3FS at any time H5769 NMS .
33 And if a man H834 W-RPRO purchase H1350 of H4480 PREP the Levites H3881 , then the house H1004 NMS that was sold H4465 , and the city H5892 of his possession H272 , shall go out H3318 in the year of jubilee H3104 : for H3588 CONJ the houses H1004 of the cities H5892 of the Levites H3881 are their possession H272 among H8432 B-NMS the children H1121 of Israel H3478 LMS .
34 But the field H7704 of the suburbs H4054 of their cities H5892 may not H3808 NADV be sold H4376 ; for H3588 CONJ it H1931 PPRO-3MS is their perpetual H5769 NMS possession H272 .
35 And if H3588 thy brother H251 CMS-2MS be waxen poor H4134 , and fallen in decay H4131 with H5973 PREP-2FS thee ; then thou shalt relieve H2388 him : yea , though he be a stranger H1616 NMS , or a sojourner H8453 ; that he may live H2421 with H5973 PREP-2FS thee .
36 Take H3947 VQY2MS thou no H408 NPAR usury H5392 of him , or increase H8636 : but fear thy God H3372 ; that thy brother H251 CMS-2MS may live H2421 with H5973 PREP-2FS thee .
37 Thou shalt not H3808 ADV give H5414 him thy money H3701 upon usury H5392 , nor H3808 NADV lend H5414 him thy victuals H400 for increase H4768 .
38 I H589 PPRO-1MS am the LORD H3068 EDS your God H430 , which H834 RPRO brought you forth out of the land H776 M-NFS of Egypt H4714 , to give H5414 L-VQFC you the land H776 GFS of Canaan H3667 LMS , and to be H1961 your God H430 L-NMP .
39 And if H3588 thy brother H251 CMS-2MS that dwelleth by H5973 PREP-2FS thee be waxen poor H4134 , and be sold H4376 unto thee ; thou shalt not H3808 NADV compel him to serve H5647 as a bondservant H5656 :
40 But as a hired servant H7916 K-AMS , and as a sojourner H8453 , he shall be H1961 VQY3MS with H5973 PREP-2FS thee , and shall serve H5647 thee unto H5704 PREP the year H8141 of jubilee H3104 :
41 And then shall he depart H3318 from thee , both he H1931 PPRO-3MS and his children H1121 W-CMP-3MS with H5973 him , and shall return H7725 W-VQQ3MS unto H413 PREP his own family H4940 , and unto H413 PREP the possession H272 of his fathers H1 shall he return H7725 VQY3MS .
42 For H3588 CONJ they H1992 PPRO-3MP are my servants H5650 , which H834 RPRO I brought forth H3318 out of the land H776 M-NFS of Egypt H4714 : they shall not H3808 NADV be sold H4376 as bondmen H5650 .
43 Thou shalt not H3808 NADV rule H7287 over him with rigor H6531 ; but shalt fear thy God H3372 .
44 Both thy bondmen H5650 , and thy bondmaids H519 , which H834 RPRO thou shalt have H1961 VQY3MP , shall be of the heathen H1471 D-NMP that H834 RPRO are round about H5439 you ; of H4480 them shall ye buy H7069 bondmen H5650 NMS and bondmaids H519 .
45 Moreover H1571 W-CONJ of the children H1121 of the strangers H8453 that do sojourn H1481 among H5973 PREP-3MP you , of H4480 them shall ye buy H7069 , and of their families H4940 that H834 RPRO are with H5973 PREP-3MP you , which H834 RPRO they begot H3205 in your land H776 : and they shall be H1961 W-VQQ3MS your possession H272 .
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance H5157 for your children H1121 after H310 you , to inherit H3423 them for a possession H272 ; they shall be your bondmen H5647 forever H5769 L-NMS : but over your brethren H251 the children H1121 of Israel H3478 , ye shall not H3808 NADV rule H7287 one H376 NMS over another H251 with rigor H6531 .
47 And if H3588 W-CONJ a sojourner H1616 NMS or stranger H8453 wax rich H5381 by H5973 PREP-2FS thee , and thy brother H251 CMS-2MS that dwelleth by H5973 PREP-3MS him wax poor H4134 , and sell himself H4376 unto the stranger H1616 or sojourner H8453 by H5973 PREP-2FS thee , or H176 CONJ to the stock H6133 of the stranger H1616 \'s family H4940 :
48 After that H310 PREP he is sold H4376 he may be H1961 VQY3FS redeemed again H1353 ; one H259 MMS of his brethren H251 may redeem H1350 him :
49 Either H176 CONJ his uncle H1730 , or H176 CONJ his uncle H1730 \'s son H1121 CMS , may redeem H1350 him , or H176 CONJ any that is nigh H7607 of kin H1320 CMS-3MS unto him of his family H4940 may redeem H1350 him ; or H176 CONJ if he be able H5381 , he may redeem himself H1350 .
50 And he shall reckon H2803 with H5973 PREP him that bought H7069 him from the year H8141 that he was sold H4376 to him unto H5704 PREP the year H8141 of jubilee H3104 : and the price H3701 NMS of his sale H4465 shall be H1961 W-VQQ3MS according unto the number H4557 B-CMS of years H8141 NFP , according to the time H3117 K-CMP of a hired servant H7916 AMS shall it be H1961 W-VQQ3MS with H5973 PREP-3MS him .
51 If H518 PART there be yet H5750 ADV many H7227 AFP years H8141 behind , according unto H6310 them he shall give again H7725 VHY3MS the price of his redemption H1353 out of the money H3701 that he was bought H4736 for .
52 And if H518 W-PART there remain H7604 VNQ3MS but few H4592 AMS years H8141 unto H5704 PREP the year H8141 of jubilee H3104 , then he shall count H2803 with him , and according unto H6310 K-CMS his years H8141 CFP-3MS shall he give him again H7725 VHY3MS the price of his redemption H1353 .
53 And as a yearly H8141 NFS hired servant H7916 shall he be H1961 VQY3MS with H5973 PREP-3MS him : and the other shall not H3808 ADV rule with rigor over H7287 him in thy sight H5869 .
54 And if H518 W-PART he be not H3808 NADV redeemed H1350 in these H428 years , then he shall go out H3318 in the year H8141 B-CFS of jubilee H3104 , both he H1931 PPRO-3MS , and his children H1121 W-CMP-3MS with H5973 PREP-3MS him .
55 For H3588 CONJ unto me the children H1121 of Israel H3478 are servants H5650 NMP ; they H1992 PPRO-3MP are my servants H5650 whom H834 RPRO I brought forth H3318 out of the land H776 M-NFS of Egypt H4714 : I H589 PPRO-1MS am the LORD H3068 EDS your God H430 .
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