Study Desk

You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

I will appoint my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.

The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.

You are not to lend him your silver with interest or sell him your food for profit.

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.

The one who purchased him is to calculate the time from the year he sold himself to him until the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years. It will be set for him like the daily wages of a hired worker.

For the Israelites are my servants. They are my servants that I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

“Do not make idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

You will eat the old grain of the previous year and will clear out the old to make room for the new.

“But if after these things you will not obey me, I will proceed to discipline you seven times for your sins.

and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

“If you act with hostility toward me and are unwilling to obey me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.

then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.

I will act with furious hostility toward you; I will also discipline you seven times for your sins.

“Then the land will make up for its Sabbath years during the time it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and make up for its Sabbaths.

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they make amends for their iniquity, because they rejected my ordinances and abhorred my statutes.

For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am the Lord.”