¹And Yahweh spoke to Moses on the mountain of Sinai, saying:

²Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land that I am giving you, the land shall cease, a sabbath for Yahweh.

³Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its yield.

⁴And in the seventh year a sabbath of sabbath observance shall belong to the land, a sabbath for Yahweh; your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune.

⁵The self-sown growth of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your untrimmed vines you shall not gather; a year of sabbath observance it shall be for the land.

⁶And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you — for you, and for your slave, and for your maidservant, and for your hired man, and for your resident, those who sojourn with you.

⁷And for your livestock and for the living creatures that are in your land, all its yield shall be for eating.

⁸And you shall count for yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times; and the days of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

⁹And you shall send the horn of the shout across in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the day of the atonements you shall send the horn across all your land.

¹⁰And you shall set apart the fiftieth year as holy, and you shall proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; it is a ram's horn — it shall be that to you; and you shall return, each one to his possession, and each one to his clan you shall return.

¹¹A ram's horn it is: the fiftieth year shall be so for you; you shall not sow, and you shall not reap its self-sown growth, and you shall not gather its untrimmed vines.

¹²For it is a ram's horn; a holy thing it shall be for you; from the field you shall eat its yield.

¹³In this year of the ram's horn you shall return, each one to his possession.

¹⁴And if you sell wares to your fellow or buy from the hand of your fellow, you shall not maltreat, each his brother.

¹⁵By the number of years after the ram's horn you shall buy from your fellow; by the number of years of yield he shall sell to you.

¹⁶In proportion to the abundance of the years you shall increase its purchase price, and in proportion to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its purchase price; for it is the number of yields that he is selling to you.

¹⁷And you shall not maltreat one another, each man his fellow; and you shall fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

¹⁸And you will do my statutes, and my ordinances you will keep, and you will do them, and you will dwell on the land in security.

¹⁹And the land will give its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and you will dwell in security on it.

²⁰And if you say, What will we eat in the seventh year? Look, we will not sow, and we will not gather our harvest —

²¹then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, and it will yield the harvest for the three years.

²²And you will sow in the eighth year, and you will eat from the old produce; until the ninth year, until its produce comes in, you will eat the old.

²³And the land will not be sold permanently, for the land is mine, for you are sojourners and residents with me.

²⁴And in all the land of your possession, you will give redemption to the land.

²⁵If your brother grows poor and sells some of his possession, then his kinsman-redeemer, the nearest one will come to him and will redeem the thing sold by his brother.

²⁶And when a man has no kinsman-redeemer, and his hand reaches, and he finds enough for his redemption,

²⁷Then he will reckon the years of its sale, and he will return the part that exceeds to the man to whom he sold it, and he will return to his possession.

²⁸And if his hand has not found enough to give back to him, then what he sold will remain in the hand of the one who bought it until the year of the ram's horn; it will go out at the ram's horn, and he will return to his possession.

²⁹And if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then its right of redemption will remain until the year of its sale is finished; its right of redemption will last for days.

³⁰And if it is not redeemed until a whole year is completed for him, then the house that is in the city that has a wall will stand permanently for the one who bought it, throughout his generations; it will not go out at the ram's horn.

³¹And the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be reckoned as the field of the land; a right of redemption will belong to it, and at the ram's horn it will go out.

³²And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, a right of redemption will belong to the Levites forever.

³³And whoever of the Levites redeems, then the sale of a house and a city of his possession will go out at the ram's horn; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

³⁴And the field of the open land of their cities will not be sold, for it is a possession forever for them.

³⁵And if your brother grows poor, and his hand slips beside you, then you will take hold of him as a sojourner and a resident, and he will live beside you.

³⁶Do not take from him interest or profit, and fear your God, and your brother will live with you.

³⁷You will not give him your silver at interest, and you will not give your food for profit.

³⁸I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.

³⁹And if your brother grows poor beside you and is sold to you, you will not put him to work at the labor of a slave.

⁴⁰Like a hired laborer, like a resident he will be with you; until the year of the ram's horn he will work beside you.

⁴¹And he will go out from beside you, he and his sons with him, and will return to his clan, and to the possession of his fathers he will return.

⁴²For they are my slaves, whom I brought them out of the land of Egypt; they will not be sold as a slave is sold.

⁴³You will not rule over him with harshness, and you will fear your God.

⁴⁴And your male slave and your female slave who will belong to you: from the nations that are around you, from them you will buy a male slave and a female slave.

⁴⁵And also from the children of the residents who sojourn with you, from them you will buy, and from their clan that is with you, whom they have fathered in your land; and they will belong to you as a possession.

⁴⁶And you will bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession forever; through them you will work. But over your brothers, the children of Israel, each over his brother, you will not rule over him with harshness.

⁴⁷And if the hand of a sojourner and resident beside you has reached enough, and your brother grows poor beside him and is sold to a sojourner, a resident beside you, or to a member of the clan of a sojourner,

⁴⁸after he has been sold, a right of redemption will belong to him; one of his brothers will redeem him,

⁴⁹or his uncle, or his uncle's son will redeem him, or any close relative of his flesh from his clan will redeem him; or his hand has reached enough, and he is redeemed.

⁵⁰And he will reckon with the one who bought him, from the year of his being sold to him until the year of the ram's horn; and the silver of his sale will be by the number of years, like the days of a hired laborer he will be with him.

⁵¹If there are still many years, according to them he will pay back the price of his redemption out of the silver of his purchase.

⁵²And if only a few years remain until the year of the ram's horn, then he will reckon it to himself; in proportion to his years he will repay the price of his redemption.

⁵³Like a hired man, year by year he will be with him; he will not rule over him with crushing harshness before your eyes.

⁵⁴And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he will go out in the year of the ram's horn, he and his sons with him.

⁵⁵For to me the children of Israel are slaves; my slaves they are, whom I brought them out of the land of Egypt — I am Yahweh your God.