1 GLT And Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
2 GLT “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them,‘When you come to the land that I am giving to you, then the land must keep a sabbath, a sabbath for Yahweh. BSB BSB: “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
3 GLT Six years you must plant your field, and six years you must prune your vineyard and gather its produce. BSB BSB: For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.
4 GLT And in the seventh year, there must be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath for Yahweh. You must not plant your field and you must not prune your vineyard. BSB BSB: But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.
5 GLT You must not harvest the second growth of your harvest and you must not gather the grapes of your unpruned vines. It will be a year of solemn rest for the land. BSB BSB: You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
6 GLT And the sabbath of the land will be for you, as food for you, and for your male slave, and for your female slave, and for your hired servant, and for the foriegn resident who is sojourning with you, BSB BSB: Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
7 GLT and for your livestock and for the wild animal that is in your land, all its yield will be for eating. BSB BSB: and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.
8 GLT And you must count for yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and there will be for you a period of seven sabbaths of years, 49 years. BSB BSB: And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.
9 GLT And you must cause the horn blast to be heard on the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month. On the Day of Atonement you must cause the horn to be heard throughout all your land. BSB BSB: Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
10 GLT And you must set apart the year, year 50, and proclaim freedom in the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a jubilee for you and you must return a man to his property and you must return a man to his family. BSB BSB: So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
11 GLT That year, year 50, will be a jubilee for you. You must not plant and not harvest its second growth and not harvest its unpruned vines. BSB BSB: The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
12 GLT For it is a jubilee, it will be holy for you. You must eat its yield from the field. BSB BSB: For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
13 GLT In this Year of Jubilee you must return a man to his property. BSB BSB: In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
14 GLT And if you sell something sold to your fellow citizen or buy from the hand of your fellow citizen, a man must not oppress his brother. BSB BSB: If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
15 GLT According to the number of years after the jubilee you must buy from your fellow citizen. According to the number of years of yield he must sell to you. BSB BSB: You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
16 GLT According to the multitude of the years you must increase its purchase price, but according to the fewness of the years you must decrease its purchase price, because of the number of yields he is selling to you. BSB BSB: You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.
17 GLT And you must not oppress, a man his fellow citizen. And you must fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
18 GLT And you must do my statutes, and my laws you must keep and do them. And you will dwell on the land securely. BSB BSB: You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.
19 GLT And the land will give its fruit, and you will eat to satisfaction and dwell securely on it. BSB BSB: Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.
20 GLT And if you say,“What will we eat in the seventh year? Look, we cannot plant and we cannot gather our yield.” BSB BSB: Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’
21 GLT Then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, and it will produce yield for three years. BSB BSB: But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.
22 GLT And you will plant in the eighth year and you will eat from the old yield until the ninth year, until its yield comes in you will eat the old. BSB BSB: While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.
23 GLT And the land must not be sold for perpetuity, for the land belongs to me. For you are sojourners and temporary residents with me. BSB BSB: The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
24 GLT And in all the land of your possession you must give redemption for the land. BSB BSB: Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.
25 GLT If your brother becomes poor and sells some of his property, then his redeemer nearest to him may come and redeem the things sold of his brother. BSB BSB: If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.
26 GLT And if a man does not have a redeemer for it, but his hand produces and he finds enough for its redemption, BSB BSB: Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
27 GLT then he may calculate the years of its sale and return the balance to the man whom he sold it to. And he may return to his property. BSB BSB: he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.
28 GLT And if his hand does not find enough to get it back for himself, then his sold things will remain in the hand of he who bought it until the Year of Jubilee. And it will go out in the Jubilee and he will return to his property. BSB BSB: But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
29 GLT And if a man sells a residential house of a walled city, then his right of redemption will be until the completion of the year of its sale. It will be the days of his right of redemption. BSB BSB: If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
30 GLT And if it is not redeemed for him up to the fulfilling of an entire year, then the house which is in the city which has its wall will belong in perpetuity to him who bought it and to his descendants. It will not go out in the Jubilee. BSB BSB: If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
31 GLT And the houses of the villages that have no wall around them will be considered as the field of the land. There will be redemption for it, and in the Jubilee it will go out. BSB BSB: But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
32 GLT As for the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, the right of redemption is permanent for the Levites. BSB BSB: As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
33 GLT And whatever is from the Levites he may redeem, and a sold house or a city of his posession will go out in the Jubilee. For the houses of the cities of the Levites— it is their possession among the sons of Israel. BSB BSB: So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
34 GLT And the field of the pastureland of their cities must not be sold because it is their permanent possession. BSB BSB: But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.
35 GLT And if your brother becomes poor and his hand is shaky with you, then you must support him as a sojourner or temporary resident and he will live with you. BSB BSB: Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
36 GLT Do not take from him interest or usury, and you must fear your God and your brother may live with you. BSB BSB: Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.
37 GLT Your silver you must not give to him with interest and for profit you must not give your food. BSB BSB: You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.
38 GLT I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give to you the land of Canaan, to be your God. BSB BSB: 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.
39 GLT And if your brother with you becomes poor and is sold to you, you must not make him work the work of a slave. BSB BSB: If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.
40 GLT Like a hired worker, like a temporary resident, he must be with you. Until the Year of Jubilee he will serve with you. BSB BSB: Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
41 GLT And he will go away from you, he and his sons with him, and he will return to his clan. And he will return to the possession of his fathers. BSB BSB: Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.
42 GLT For they are my servants, them which I brought out of the land of Egypt. They will not be sold in a slave sale. BSB BSB: Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.
43 GLT You must not rule over him with ruthlessness, and you must fear your God. BSB BSB: You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.
45 GLT And also from the sons of the sojourners who are dwelling with you, from them you may acquire, and from their clans who are with you, who have given birth in your land— they may become your property. BSB BSB: You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
46 GLT And you may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession, you may let them work permanently. But as for your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man with his brother, you must not rule over him with ruthlessness. BSB BSB: You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.
47 GLT And if the hand of a sojourner or a temporary resident with you has produced, and your brother with you becomes poor and is sold to a sojourner, a temporary resident with you, or to a descendant of a clan of a sojourner, BSB BSB: If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,
48 GLT after he has been sold, there will be redemption for him. One of his brothers may redeem him, BSB BSB: he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:
49 GLT or his uncle, or the son of his uncle may redeem him; or a relative of his flesh from his clan may redeem him. Or, if his hand has produced, then he may redeem himself. BSB BSB: either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.
50 GLT And he will calculate with his buyer from the year he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee, and the silver of his sale must be according to the number of years; like the days of a hired worker it will be with him. BSB BSB: He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
51 GLT If there are still many of the years, according to them he must pay back his redemption from the silver of his purchase. BSB BSB: If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.
52 GLT And if a few of the years until the Year of Jubilee are left, then he must calculate for him according to his years. He must pay back his redemption. BSB BSB: If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.
53 GLT Like a hired worker year by year he will be with him. He must not rule over him with ruthlessness in your eyes. BSB BSB: He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
54 GLT And if he is not redeemed by these, then he must go out in the Year of Jubilee, he and his sons with him. BSB BSB: Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.
55 GLT For to me the sons of Israel are servants. They are my servants, them which I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’” BSB BSB: For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
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