The Living Word

1

And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

WhatsApp Copy

2

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.

WhatsApp Copy

3

Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

WhatsApp Copy

4

But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

WhatsApp Copy

5

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

WhatsApp Copy

6

And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee.

WhatsApp Copy

7

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

WhatsApp Copy

8

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

WhatsApp Copy

9

Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

WhatsApp Copy

10

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

WhatsApp Copy

11

A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

WhatsApp Copy

12

For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

WhatsApp Copy

13

In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

WhatsApp Copy

14

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbor, or buyest ought of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

WhatsApp Copy

15

According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

WhatsApp Copy

16

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

WhatsApp Copy

17

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

WhatsApp Copy

18

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.

WhatsApp Copy

19

And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

WhatsApp Copy

20

And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:

WhatsApp Copy

21

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

WhatsApp Copy

22

And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

WhatsApp Copy

23

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

WhatsApp Copy

24

And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

WhatsApp Copy

25

If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

WhatsApp Copy

26

And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

WhatsApp Copy

27

Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

WhatsApp Copy

28

But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

WhatsApp Copy

29

And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

WhatsApp Copy

30

And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

WhatsApp Copy

31

But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

WhatsApp Copy

32

Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

WhatsApp Copy

33

And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubilee: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

WhatsApp Copy

34

But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

WhatsApp Copy

35

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

WhatsApp Copy

36

Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

WhatsApp Copy

37

Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

WhatsApp Copy

38

I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

WhatsApp Copy

39

And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:

WhatsApp Copy

40

But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee.

WhatsApp Copy

41

And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

WhatsApp Copy

42

For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

WhatsApp Copy

43

Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor; but shalt fear thy God.

WhatsApp Copy

44

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

WhatsApp Copy

45

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

WhatsApp Copy

46

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigor.

WhatsApp Copy

47

And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:

WhatsApp Copy

48

After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:

WhatsApp Copy

49

Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

WhatsApp Copy

50

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.

WhatsApp Copy

51

If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

WhatsApp Copy

52

And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubilee, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

WhatsApp Copy

53

And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over him in thy sight.

WhatsApp Copy

54

And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

WhatsApp Copy

55

For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

WhatsApp Copy