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That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.

For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You may eat the produce of the field.

You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops.

If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

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

"The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.

"If a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, he may redeem it within a year of its sale. For a full year he shall have the right of redemption.

As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites may redeem at any time the houses in the cities they possess.

And if one of the Levites exercises his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city they possess shall be released in the jubilee. For the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

But the fields of pastureland belonging to their cities may not be sold, for that is their possession forever.

You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.

For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves.

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.

If there are still many years left, he shall pay proportionately for his redemption some of his sale price.

If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall calculate and pay for his redemption in proportion to his years of service.

For it is to me that the people of Israel are servants. They are my servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

"You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.

You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.