Leviticus 25:14

New Living Translation

"When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy of your neighbor's hand, you shall not wrong one another.

King James Version
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

Lexham English Bible
And when you sell something to your fellow citizen or you buy from your neighbor's hand, you must not oppress one another.

New Century Version
"‘If you sell your land to your neighbor, or if you buy land from your neighbor, don't cheat each other.

New English Translation
If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother.

Amplified Bible
'If you sell anything to your friend or buy from your friend, you shall not wrong one another.

New American Standard Bible
'Furthermore, if you make a sale to your friend, or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And when thou sellest ought to thy neighbour, or byest at thy neighbours hande, ye shall not oppresse one another:

Legacy Standard Bible
If you make a sale, moreover, to your companion or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not mistreat one another.

Contemporary English Version
So when you buy or sell farmland, the price is to be determined by the number of crops it can produce before the next Year of Celebration. Don't try to cheat.

Complete Jewish Bible
(LY: ii) "‘If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, neither of you is to exploit the other.

Darby Translation
And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Don't cheat your neighbors when you sell your land to them. Don't cheat one another when you buy or sell land.

English Standard Version
And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

George Lamsa Translation
And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not defraud one another:

Good News Translation
So when you sell land to an Israelite or buy land, do not deal unfairly.

Christian Standard Bible®
If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat one another.

Literal Translation
And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from the hand of your neighbor, you shall not each man oppress his brother.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now whan thou sellest ought vnto thy neghboure, or byest eny thinge of him, there shal none of you oppresse his brother:

American Standard Version
And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buy of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.

Bible in Basic English
And in the business of trading goods for money, do no wrong to one another.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If thou sellest ought vnto thy neyghbour, or byest ought of thy neyghbours hande, ye shal not oppresse one another.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another.

King James Version (1611)
And if thou sell ought vnto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbours hand, ye shall not oppresse one another.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if thou shouldest sell a possession to thy neighbour, or if thou shouldest buy of thy neighbour, let not a man oppress his neighbour.

English Revised Version
And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not wrong one another:

Berean Standard Bible
If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of one another.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whanne thou schalt sille ony thing to thi citeseyn, ether schalt bie of hym, make thou not sory thi brother, but bi the noumbre of `yeeris of iubile thou schalt bie of him,

Young's Literal Translation
`And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

Update Bible Version
And if you sell anything to your neighbors, or buy of your neighbor's hand, you shall not wrong one another.

Webster's Bible Translation
And if thou shalt sell aught to thy neighbor, or buy [aught] of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

World English Bible
If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy of your neighbor's hand, you shall not wrong one another.

New King James Version
And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.

New Life Bible
If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, do not do wrong to one another.

New Revised Standard
When you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not cheat one another.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And when ye sell anything to thy neighbour, or buy aught at thy neighbour's hand, do not overreach one another.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him: grieve not thy brother. But thou shalt buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.

Revised Standard Version
And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

THE MESSAGE
"If you sell or buy property from one of your countrymen, don't cheat him. Calculate the purchase price on the basis of the number of years since the Jubilee. He is obliged to set the sale price on the basis of the number of harvests remaining until the next Jubilee. The more years left, the more money; you can raise the price. But the fewer years left, the less money; decrease the price. What you are buying and selling in fact is the number of crops you're going to harvest. Don't cheat each other. Fear your God. I am God , your God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend's hand, you shall not wrong one another.

Contextual Overview

⁸ "In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven years, adding up to forty-nine years in all. ⁹ Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year, blow the ram's horn loud and long throughout the land. ¹⁰ Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan. ¹¹ This fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year you must not plant your fields or store away any of the crops that grow on their own, and don't gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. ¹² It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must keep it holy. But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own. ¹³ In the Year of Jubilee each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors. ¹⁴ "When you make an agreement with your neighbor to buy or sell property, you must not take advantage of each other. ¹⁵ When you buy land from your neighbor, the price you pay must be based on the number of years since the last jubilee. The seller must set the price by taking into account the number of years remaining until the next Year of Jubilee. ¹⁶ The more years until the next jubilee, the higher the price; the fewer years, the lower the price. After all, the person selling the land is actually selling you a certain number of harvests. ¹⁷ Show your fear of God by not taking advantage of each other. I am the Lord your God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 25:17, Leviticus 19:13, Deuteronomy 16:19, Deuteronomy 16:20, Judges 4:3, 1 Samuel 12:3, 1 Samuel 12:4, 2 Chronicles 16:10, Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37, Job 20:19, Job 20:20, Psalms 10:18, Proverbs 14:31, Proverbs 21:13, Proverbs 22:16, Proverbs 28:3, Proverbs 28:8, Proverbs 28:16, Ecclesiastes 5:8, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 3:12-15, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 33:15, Isaiah 58:6, Jeremiah 22:17, Ezekiel 22:7, Ezekiel 22:12, Ezekiel 22:13, Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12, Amos 8:4-7, Micah 2:2, Micah 2:3, Micah 6:10-12, Micah 7:3, Luke 3:14, 1 Corinthians 6:8, James 5:1-5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:2 - Give me Ezekiel 18:7 - hath not 1 Thessalonians 4:6 - defraud

Cross-References

Isaiah 21:11
This message came to me concerning Edom: Someone from Edom keeps calling to me, "Watchman, how much longer until morning? When will the night be over?"

Isaiah 21:16
The Lord said to me, "Within a year, counting each day, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour,.... Any estate or possession, house or land, at any time before the year of jubilee:

or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand; of movable goods, as the Targum of Jonathan interprets it; and so other Jewish writers z restrain this to goods which are bought by hand, and delivered from hand to hand; and so they think that fields, and servants, which they say are like to fields, are excluded hereby; but it seems to refer to anything saleable, and chiefly to fields and vineyards, as the following verses show; wherefore Diodorus Siculus, as quoted by Grotius, must be mistaken, when he says, it was not counted lawful by the Jews to sell their inheritance, unless he means for ever, so indeed they could not:

ye shall not oppress one another; the buyer giving too little, or the seller requiring too much; no advantage was to be taken, either of the necessity of the one, or the ignorance of the other, but a fair bargain was to be made, and the full value given, neither too much nor too little. The Jews by "neighbour" understand an Israelite, and not a Gentile a; not that there might be no buying and selling at all between Jews and Gentiles, or that the former might oppress and defraud the latter, though not an Israelite; but lands and inheritances might not be sold at all to Gentiles, only to Israelites.

z Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Bava Metziah, c. 4. sect. 9. a Jarchi in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sell ought - i. e., any piece of ground.

Oppress one another - Rather, overreach one another. (Compare 1 Samuel 12:3-4).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 25:14. Ye shall not oppress one another — Ye shall take no advantage of each other's ignorance either in buying or selling; for he that buys an article at less than it is worth, or sells one for more than it is worth, taking advantage in both cases of the ignorance of the vender or buyer, is no better than a thief, as he actually robs his neighbour of as much property as he has bought the article at below or sold it above its current value.