Leviticus 24:1–26:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ^2aCommand the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. ³Without the vail of the Testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. ⁴He shall order the lamps upon ^bthe pure candlestick before the Lord continually.

⁵And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve ^ccakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake. ⁶And thou shalt set them in two ^drows, six on a row, ^eupon the pure table before the Lord. ⁷And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord. ^8fEvery sabbath he shall set it in order before the Lord continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant. ⁹And ^git shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; ^hand they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, by a perpetual statute.

¹⁰And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp; ¹¹and the Israelitish woman’s son blasphemed the name ⁱof the Lord, and ^jcursed. And they ^kbrought him unto Moses: (and his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:) ¹²and they ^lput him in ward, ^mthat the mind of the Lord might be shewed them. ¹³And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹⁴Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him ⁿlay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him. ¹⁵And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God ^oshall bear his sin. ¹⁶And he that ^pblasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he ^pblasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death. ^17qAnd he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death. ^18rAnd he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast. ¹⁹And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as ^she hath done, so shall it be done to him; ²⁰breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again. ^21tAnd he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: ^uand he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death. ²²Ye shall have ^xone manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God. ²³And Moses spake to the children of Israel, ^ythat they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

XXV.And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, ²Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep ^aa sabbath unto the Lord. ³Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; ⁴but 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. ^5bThat which groweth of it own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. ⁶And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, ⁷and for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

⁸And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. ⁹Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, ^cin the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. ¹⁰And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim ^dliberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; ^eand ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. ¹¹A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ^fye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it ^fof thy vine undressed. ¹²For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ^gye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. ^13hIn the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. ¹⁴And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not ⁱoppress one another: ^15kaccording to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: ¹⁶according to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. ¹⁷Ye shall not therefore ^loppress one another; ^mbut thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the Lord your God.

¹⁸ⁿWherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; ^oand ye shall dwell in the land in safety. ¹⁹And the land shall yield her fruit, and ^pye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. ²⁰And if ye shall say, ^qWhat shall we eat the seventh year? behold, ^rwe shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: ²¹then I will ^scommand my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. ^22tAnd ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of ^uold fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

²³The land shall not be sold for ever: for ^xthe land is mine; for ye were ^ystrangers and sojourners with me. ²⁴And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. ²⁵If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if ^zany of his kin come to redeem it, ^athen shall he redeem that which his brother sold. ²⁶And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; ²⁷then ^blet him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. ²⁸But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession. ²⁹And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within ^ca full year may he redeem it. ³⁰And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be stablished for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile. ³¹But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile. ³²Notwithstanding ^dthe cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time. ³³And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, ^eshall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. ³⁴But the field ^fof the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

³⁵And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt ^grelieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. ^36hTake thou no usury of him, or increase: but ⁱfear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. ³⁷Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. ^38kI 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.

³⁹And ^lif thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: ⁴⁰but as a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: ⁴¹and then shall he depart from thee, ^mboth he and his children with him, and shall return unto ⁿhis own family, and ⁿunto the possession of his fathers shall he return. ⁴²For they are ^omy servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. ^43pThou shalt not rule over him ^qwith rigour; but ^rshalt fear thy God. ⁴⁴Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. ⁴⁵Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. ⁴⁶And ^sye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ^tye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

⁴⁷And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and ^uthy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family: ⁴⁸after that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may ^xredeem him: ⁴⁹either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any ^ythat is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if ^zhe be able, he may…