1  And Jehovah spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2  Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye come into the land that I will give you, the land shall celebrate a sabbath to Jehovah. 3  Six years shalt thou sow thy field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof, 4  but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Thy field shalt thou not sow, and thy vineyard shalt thou not prune. 5  That which springeth up from the scattered seed of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thine undressed vines thou shalt not gather: a year of rest shall it be for the land. 6  And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle, 7  and for the beasts that are in thy land: all the produce thereof shall be for food.

8  And thou shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be unto thee forty-nine years. 9  Then shalt thou cause the loud sound of the trumpet to go forth in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement shall ye cause the trumpet to go forth throughout your land. 10  And ye shall hallow the year of the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; a year of jubilee shall it be unto you, and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family; 11  a year of jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap its aftergrowth, nor gather the fruit of its undressed vines. 12  For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you; out of the field shall ye eat its produce. 13  In this year of the jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. 14  And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour’s hand, ye shall not overreach one another. 15  According to the number of years since the jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour; according to the number of years of the produce, he shall sell unto thee. 16  According to the greater number of the years, thou shalt increase the price thereof; and according to the fewness of years, thou shalt diminish the price of it; for it is the number of crops that he selleth unto thee. 17  And ye shall not oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am Jehovah your God. 18  And ye shall do my statutes, and observe mine ordinances and do them: thus shall ye dwell in your land securely. 19  And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat and be satisfied, and dwell therein securely. 20  And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce; 21  then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, that it may bring forth produce for three years; 22  and ye shall sow in the eighth year, and ye shall eat of the old fruit until the ninth year; until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old.

23  And the land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.