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The Third Book of Moses: Leviticus

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(Exodus 23:10–13; Deuteronomy 15:1–6)
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Yahweh said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
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“Tell the Israelites that Yahweh is giving these commands to them: When you enter the land that he is about to give you, every seventh year you must honor him by not planting any crops. You must allow the ground to rest.
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During six years, you are to plant crops in your fields, prune your grapevines, and harvest your crops.
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But during the seventh year you must allow your fields to rest, in order to honor Yahweh. Do not plant seeds in your fields or prune your grapevines during the seventh year.
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In the seventh year, you must not bring workers together to harvest whatever grain has grown in your fields; you must not bring workers together to harvest whatever grapes have grown on the vines that you did not cut back. You must allow the land to rest for that one year.
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But you are permitted to eat whatever crops have grown by themselves during that year. You and your male and female servants, and workers whom you have hired, and any foreigners who are living among you, you may all eat those things.
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And your livestock and the wild animals in your land are permitted to eat them during that year as well.

The Year of Jubilee

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After every forty-nine years has ended, you must do this for the celebration of Jubilee.
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On the tenth day of the seventh month of the next year, blow trumpets throughout the country, to announce the Day of Atonement.
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Set apart that year in order to honor Yahweh. You must proclaim everywhere, to all the people, that this year will be the time for giving the land back to the families that first owned it when Yahweh brought you into your land. It will also be the time for setting free any of Yahweh’s people who are slaves.
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This year of Jubilee, the fiftieth year, will be a year in which you must rejoice and obey Yahweh’s special instructions. During that year do not plant anything, and do not harvest in your usual manner the crops or grapes that have grown by themselves.
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It will be a year for you to rejoice in, the year of Jubilee. You will treat it as special, and eat only what has grown by itself.

Return of Property

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In that year of celebration, the year of Jubilee, and everyone must return to their property to the original owner of it.
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If you sell some of your land to a fellow Israelite or if you buy some land from one of them, you must treat that person fairly.
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If you buy land, the price that you will pay will depend on the number of years until the next celebration of Jubilee. If someone sells land to you, he will charge a price that reflects the number of years remaining until the next year of celebration of Jubilee, when all property will be returned to their original owners.
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If there will be many years before the next time for the celebration of Jubilee, the price will be higher. If there will be only a few years until the next year of celebration, the price will be lower. You could say that what he is really selling you is the number of crops you could harvest before the next year of the celebration of Jubilee.
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Do not cheat each other. Instead, honor Yahweh. It is Yahweh, whom we Israelites worship, who is commanding us to do these things.

The Blessing of Obedience

(Deuteronomy 28:1–14)
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Obey all my laws carefully. If you do that, you will continue to live safely in your country.
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The crops will grow well on the land, and you will have plenty to eat.
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But you may ask, “If we do not plant or harvest our crops during the seventh year, what will we have to eat?”
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Yahweh answers you that he will bless you very much during the sixth year, with the result that during that year there will be enough crops to provide food for you for three years.
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Then, after you plant seed during the eighth year and wait for the crops to grow, you will eat the food grown in the sixth year; you will continue to eat it until you harvest your crops in the ninth year.

The Law of Redemption

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You must not sell any of your land to belong to someone else permanently, because the land is not yours. It is really mine, and you are only living on it temporarily and farming it for me.
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Throughout the country that you will possess, you must remember that if someone sells some of his land to you, he is permitted to buy it back from you at any time.
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So if one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells some of his property to you for money, the person who is most closely related to him is permitted to come and buy back that land for him.
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However, if a man has no one to buy the land for him, but if he himself prospers again and has saved enough money to buy that land back,
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he must calculate how many years there will be until the next year of celebration. Then he must pay to the man who bought the land the money that the other man would have earned by growing crops on that land for those years.
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But if the original owner does not have enough money to buy back the land that he sold, it will continue to belong to the man who bought it until the next year of the celebration of Jubilee. In that year he will take possession of it again, and he will be able to farm it again.
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If someone sells a house in a city that has a wall around it, during the next year he will be permitted to buy it back from the man who bought it.
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If he does not buy it during that year, it will belong permanently to the man who bought it, and to that man’s descendants. He does not need to return it to the original owner in the year of celebration of Jubilee.
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But houses that are in villages without walls are considered to be as though they were in a field. So if someone sells one of those houses, he is permitted to buy it back at any time. And even if he does not buy it, he will take possession of it again at the year of the celebration of Jubilee.
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The descendants of Levi are a special case, however. If they sell their houses in the cities that belong to them, they are permitted to buy them back at any time.
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But even if they do not buy back those houses, they will become theirs again in the year of the celebration of Jubilee, because those houses are in their cities, on land that the other Israelites had given to them.
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But the pastureland near their towns must not be sold. It must belong to the original owners permanently.

Redemption of the Poor

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If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and is unable to buy what he needs, others of you must help him as you would help a foreigner who is living among you temporarily.
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If you lend money to him, do not charge any kind of interest. Instead, show by what you do that you honor your God; you must help that man, in order that he will be able to continue to live among you.
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If you lend him money, do not charge interest; and if you sell food to him, charge him only what you paid for it. Do not try to make a profit from it.
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Do not forget that it is Yahweh your God who is giving you these commands; it is, after all, Yahweh who brought you out of Egypt to be your God and to give you the land of Canaan.

Redemption of Bondmen

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If one of your fellow Israelites becomes poor and sells himself to you, do not force him to work like a slave.
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Treat him as you treat workers whom you hire or like someone who is living on your land temporarily. He must work for you only until the year of the celebration of Jubilee.
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During that year, you must free him, and he may go back to his family and to the property that his ancestors owned.
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It is as though we Israelites are all Yahweh’s slaves, whom he freed from being slaves in Egypt. So none of you should buy each other and make each other into slaves.
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And do not treat the Israelites whom you buy cruelly. Instead, honor Yahweh, our God.
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If you want to have slaves, you are permitted to buy them from nearby people groups.
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You are also permitted to buy some of the foreigners who are living among you, and members of their clans that were born in your country. You may own them.
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They will be your slaves for the remaining years of your life, and after you die, it is permitted for your children to own them. But you must not act in brutal ways toward your fellow Israelites.

Redemption of Servants

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Suppose a foreigner who is living among you becomes rich, and if a fellow Israelite becomes poor and sells himself to that foreigner or to a member of his clan,
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it is permitted for someone to pay for him to be freed. It is permitted for one of his relatives to pay for him to be released.
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An uncle or a cousin or another relative in his clan may pay for him to be released. Or, if he prospers and gets enough money, he is permitted to pay for his own release.
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The man who wants to pay for his own release must count the number of years until the next year of the celebration of Jubilee. The price he pays to the man who bought him will depend on the pay that would be given to a hired worker for that number of remaining years.
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If there are a lot of years that remain until the year of celebration, he must pay for his release a larger amount of the money.
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If there are only a few years that remain until the year of the celebration of Jubilee, he must pay a smaller amount to be released.
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During those years that he is working for the man who bought him, the man who bought him must treat him like he would treat a hired worker, and all of you must make sure that his owner does not treat him cruelly.
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And even if a fellow Israelite who has sold himself to a rich man is not able to pay for himself to be freed by any of these ways, he and his children must be freed in the year of the celebration of Jubilee,
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because it is as though you Israelites are my slaves, whom I, Yahweh your God, freed from being slaves in Egypt.’”
(Exodus 23:10–13; Deuteronomy 15:1–6)
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The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
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Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD.
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You shall sow your field six years, and you shall prune your vineyard six years, and gather in its fruits;
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but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
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What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and you shall not gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
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The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
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For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

The Year of Jubilee

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“‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
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Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
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You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
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That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
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For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

Return of Property

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“‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
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“‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
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According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
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According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
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You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

The Blessing of Obedience

(Deuteronomy 28:1–14)
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“‘Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
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The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
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If you said, “What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;”
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then I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, and it shall bear fruit for the three years.
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You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits from the old store until the ninth year. Until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.

The Law of Redemption

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“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
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In all the land of your possession you shall grant a redemption for the land.
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“‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.
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If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,
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then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
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But if he isn’t able to get it back for himself, then what he has sold shall remain in the hand of him who has bought it until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.
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“‘If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it has been sold. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.
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If it isn’t redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not be released in the Jubilee.
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But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be accounted for with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
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“‘Nevertheless, in the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem the houses in the cities of their possession at any time.
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The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
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But the field of the pasture lands of their cities may not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession.

Redemption of the Poor

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“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.
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Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.
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You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
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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.

Redemption of Bondmen

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“‘If your brother has grown poor among you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him to serve as a slave.
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As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee.
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Then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
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For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold as slaves.
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You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
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“‘As for your male and your female slaves, whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you may buy male and female slaves.
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Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with you, which they have conceived in your land; and they will be your property.
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You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession. Of them you may take your slaves forever, but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

Redemption of Servants

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“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family,
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after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him;
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or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
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He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; he shall be with him according to the time of a hired servant.
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If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
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If there remain but a few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with him; according to his years of service he shall give back the price of his redemption.
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As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him. He shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.
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If he isn’t redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the Year of Jubilee: he and his children with him.
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For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.