King James Version, Updated™

(1) The LORD spoke to Moses on mount Sinai, saying,

(2) "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'When YOU come to the land which I give YOU, then shall the land keep a sabbath to the LORD.

(3) Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in the fruit of it;

(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.

(5) You shall not reap what grows of its own accord of your harvest, neither gather the grapes of your undressed vine; for it is a year of rest for the land.

(6) The sabbath of the land shall be food for YOU; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for the stranger that dwells with you,

(7) and for your cattle, and for the animals that are in your land, all the increase of it shall be for food.

(8) You shall count seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you 49 years.

(9) Then you shall cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the day of atonement YOU shall make the trumpet sound throughout all YOUR land.

(10) And YOU shall set apart as sacred the 50th year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubile to YOU; and each of YOU shall return to his possession, and each of YOU shall return to his family.

(11) That 50th year shall be a jubile to YOU; in it YOU shall not sow, neither reap that which grows by itself, nor gather the grapes in it of your undressed vine.

(12) For it is the jubile; it shall be holy to YOU; YOU shall eat the increase of it out of the field.

(13) In the year of this jubile each of YOU shall return to his possession.

(14) And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy anything from your neighbor, YOU shall not oppress one another.

(15) According to the number of years after the jubile you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

(16) According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to how few the number of years you shall lower its price; for it is based on the number of years of the crops he is selling to you.

(17) Therefore YOU shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD YOUR God.

(18) Thus YOU shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and YOU shall dwell in the land in safety.

(19) The land shall yield its fruit, and YOU shall eat YOUR fill, and dwell in it in safety.

(20) If YOU shall say, "What shall we eat the seventh year, if we do not sow, nor gather in our crops?"

(21) Then I will command my blessing on YOU in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth enough crops for three years.

(22) And YOU shall sow in the eighth year, and eat from old crops until the ninth year; until the crops come in YOU shall eat from the old store.

(23) The land shall never be sold; for the land is mine; for YOU are strangers and foreigners with me.

(24) And in all the land of YOUR possession YOU shall grant a redemption for the land.

(25) If your brother becomes poor, and has sold some of his possessions, and if any of his near kin comes to redeem it, then he shall redeem that which his brother sold.

(26) If the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it,

(27) then let him count the years since the sale of it, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession.

(28) But if he is not able to restore it to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of jubilee; and in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his possession.

(29) If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

(30) If it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established forever to him that bought it throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

(31) But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be counted as the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

(32) But as for the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

(33) If a man purchases from the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall be released in the year of jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

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

(35) If your brother becomes poor, and slips with you, then you shall help him, as if he were a stranger, or a foreigner, that he may live with you.

(36) Take no interest from him, or unjust gain, but fear your God, that your brother may live with you.

(37) You shall not lend him your money for interest, nor lend him your food for unjust gain.

(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.

(39) If your brother who dwells by you becomes poor, and is sold to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave;

(40) As a hired servant, and as a foreigner, he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the year of jubilee;

(41) Then he shall depart from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family; and he shall return to the possession of his fathers.

(42) For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

(43) You shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear your God.

(44) Both your male, and your female slaves, whom you may have, from the nations that are around YOU, from them YOU shall buy male and female slaves.

(45) Also of the children of the foreigners that dwell among YOU, of them YOU may buy, and their families that are with YOU, which they had in YOUR land; and they shall be YOUR possession.

(46) And YOU shall take them as an inheritance for YOUR children after YOU, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be YOUR slaves forever; but over YOUR brethren the children of Israel, YOU shall not rule one over another with rigor.

(47) If a foreigner or stranger with you becomes rich, and your brother that dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner by you, or to the member of the stranger’s family,

(48) after he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him;

(49) Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or anyone who is near of kin to him from his family may redeem him, or if he is able, he may redeem himself.

(50) He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he was sold to him to the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall be with him.

(51) If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall return the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

(52) And if there remains just a few years until the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall return to him the price of his redemption.

(53) He shall treat him as a yearly hired servant; and he shall not rule over him with rigor in your sight.

(54) And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, both he, and his children with him.

(55) For the children of Israel are my servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt; I am the LORD YOUR God.' "