Leviticus 25:4   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards.

Leviticus 25:5   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.

Leviticus 25:6   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you-for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you,

Leviticus 25:7   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

Leviticus 25:9   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.

Leviticus 25:10   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.

Leviticus 25:11   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.

Leviticus 25:12   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

Leviticus 25:14   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'If you sell land to any of your own people or buy land from them, do not take advantage of each other.

Leviticus 25:15   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

You are to buy from your own people on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. And they are to sell to you on the basis of the number of years left for harvesting crops.

Leviticus 25:16   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

Leviticus 25:17   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 25:18   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land.

Leviticus 25:19   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

Leviticus 25:20   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

You may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant or harvest our crops?"

Leviticus 25:21   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will yield enough for three years.

Leviticus 25:22   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year comes in.

Leviticus 25:23   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.

Leviticus 25:24   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Throughout the land that you hold as a possession, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

Leviticus 25:25   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of their property, their nearest relative is to come and redeem what they have sold.

Leviticus 25:35   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

" 'If any of your fellow Israelites become poor and are unable to support themselves among you, help them as you would a foreigner and stranger, so they can continue to live among you.

Leviticus 25:36   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

Do not take interest or any profit from them, but fear your God, so that they may continue to live among you.

Leviticus 25:37   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

You must not lend them money at interest or sell them food at a profit.

Leviticus 25:38   (Read all of Leviticus 25)

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