Leviticus 25:1-22.
Leviticus 25:1-22 (Good News Translation)
1The
LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and commanded him
2to give the following regulations to the people of Israel.
When you enter the land that the
LORD is giving you, you shall honor the
LORD by not cultivating the land every seventh year.
3You shall plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather
your crops for six years.
4But the seventh year is to be a year of complete rest for the
land, a year dedicated to the
LORD. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards.
5Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without
being planted, and do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines; it
is a year of complete rest for the land.
6Although the land has not been cultivated during that year, it
will provide food for you, your slaves, your hired men, the foreigners
living with you,
7your domestic animals, and the wild animals in your fields.
Everything that it produces may be eaten.
8Count seven times seven years, a total of forty-nine years.
9Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of
Atonement, send someone to blow a trumpet throughout the whole land.
10In this way you shall set the fiftieth year apart and
proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all
property that has been sold shall be restored to the original owner or the
descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves shall return to their
families.
11You shall not plant your fields or harvest the grain that
grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards.
12The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only
what the fields produce of themselves.
13In this year all property that has been sold shall be
restored to its original owner.
14So when you sell land to an Israelite or buy land, do not
deal unfairly.
15The price is to be set according to the number of years the
land can produce crops before the next Year of Restoration.
16If there are many years, the price shall be higher, but if
there are only a few years, the price shall be lower, because what is
being sold is the number of crops the land can produce.
17Do not cheat an Israelite, but obey the
LORD your God.
18Obey all the
LORD's laws and commands, so that you may live in safety in the
land.
19The land will produce its crops, and you will have all you
want to eat and will live in safety.
20But someone may ask what there will be to eat during the
seventh year, when no fields are planted and no crops gathered.
21The
LORD will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will
produce enough food for two years.
22When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still
be eating what you harvested during the sixth year, and you will have
enough to eat until the crops you plant that year are harvested.
God bless you.
1The
LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and commanded him
2to give the following regulations to the people of Israel.
When you enter the land that the
LORD is giving you, you shall honor the
LORD by not cultivating the land every seventh year.
3You shall plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather
your crops for six years.
4But the seventh year is to be a year of complete rest for the
land, a year dedicated to the
LORD. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards.
5Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without
being planted, and do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines; it
is a year of complete rest for the land.
6Although the land has not been cultivated during that year, it
will provide food for you, your slaves, your hired men, the foreigners
living with you,
7your domestic animals, and the wild animals in your fields.
Everything that it produces may be eaten.
8Count seven times seven years, a total of forty-nine years.
9Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of
Atonement, send someone to blow a trumpet throughout the whole land.
10In this way you shall set the fiftieth year apart and
proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all
property that has been sold shall be restored to the original owner or the
descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves shall return to their
families.
11You shall not plant your fields or harvest the grain that
grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards.
12The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only
what the fields produce of themselves.
13In this year all property that has been sold shall be
restored to its original owner.
14So when you sell land to an Israelite or buy land, do not
deal unfairly.
15The price is to be set according to the number of years the
land can produce crops before the next Year of Restoration.
16If there are many years, the price shall be higher, but if
there are only a few years, the price shall be lower, because what is
being sold is the number of crops the land can produce.
17Do not cheat an Israelite, but obey the
LORD your God.
18Obey all the
LORD's laws and commands, so that you may live in safety in the
land.
19The land will produce its crops, and you will have all you
want to eat and will live in safety.
20But someone may ask what there will be to eat during the
seventh year, when no fields are planted and no crops gathered.
21The
LORD will bless the land in the sixth year so that it will
produce enough food for two years.
22When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still
be eating what you harvested during the sixth year, and you will have
enough to eat until the crops you plant that year are harvested.
God bless you.
Comments