The Sabbath of the Seventh Year
1 And the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount aSinai, saying,
2 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall akeep a sabbath to the Lord.
3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit;
4 but in the aseventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn brest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5 aWhat grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
6 And the sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who dwells with you,
7 for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land—all its produce shall be for food.
The Year of Jubilee
8 ‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; aon the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and aproclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, band each of you shall return to his family.
11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it ayou shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine.
12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; ayou shall eat its produce from the field.
13 a‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession.
14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not aoppress one another.
15 aAccording to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you.
16 According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops.
17 Therefore ayou shall not oppress one another, bbut you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
Provisions for the Seventh Year
18 a‘So you shall observe My statutes and keep My judgments, and perform them; band you will dwell in the land in safety.
19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and ayou will eat your fill, and dwell there in safety.
20 ‘And if you say, a“What shall we eat in the seventh year, since bwe shall not sow nor gather in our produce?”
21 Then I will acommand My blessing on you in the bsixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years.
22 aAnd you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat bold produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.
Redemption of Property
23 ‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for athe land is Mine; for you are bstrangers and sojourners with Me.
24 And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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