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You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

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

The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.

Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

Now you may wonder, ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?’

But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year’s harvest comes in.

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

…he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.

But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.

If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.

For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.

If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

…and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

…then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,