brought out the curser before the camp, and stoned him. So the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
(Leviticus)
Chapter 25
Celebration and Jubilee.

And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying:

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When ye come into the land which I will give you, then shall the land keep her feast unto the LORD,

That thou sow thy field six years, and prune thy vineyard six years, and gather in the fruit thereof.

But in the seventh year the land shall keep her great feast unto the LORD, in the which thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

But that which groweth of itself after thy harvest thou shalt not reap: and the grapes which grow without thy labour thou shalt not gather, because it is a solemn year of the land.

But ye shall keep the feast of the land, that thou mayest eat thereof, thy manservant, thy maidservant, thy hired servant, thy household, and thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, 7. Thy cattle and the beasts of thy land. All the fruits shall be food.

And thou shalt number the seven solemnities, and seven years shall be numbered seven times: and the seven solemnities shall be forty and nine years.

Then shalt thou sound a trumpet throughout all your land in the tenth day of the seventh month, even in the day of atonement.

And ye shall keep holy the fiftieth year, and ye shall call it a year of restitution in the land unto all that dwell therein: for it is your year of restitution, and every man shall be restored unto his possession and to his family among you.

For the fiftieth year is your year of rejoicing: ye shall not sow, neither shall ye reap that which groweth of itself; neither shall ye gather that which groweth without labour in the vineyard.

For the year of jubilee shall be holy among you. But ye shall eat that which the field yieldeth.

This is the year of jubilee, when every man shall come again to his own.

Now therefore, if thou sell any thing unto thy neighbour, or buy any thing of him, let no man take advantage of his brother,

But according to the number of the year of jubilee thou shalt buy it of him: and the years that follow shall he sell unto thee.

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the purchase, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt contend for the purchase: for he shall sell it unto thee according to his bearing.

Now therefore let no man take advantage of his neighbour, but fear your God: for I am the LORD your God.

Therefore do according to my statutes, and keep my judgments, that ye may do them; that ye may dwell safely in the land.

For the land shall yield her fruit unto you, that ye may have enough to eat, and dwell safely therein.

And if thou say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? for we sow not, neither gather we in corn:

Then will I command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and he shall make three years’
corn,

That ye sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old corn until the ninth year; that ye eat of the old, until there be new corn again.

Therefore ye shall not sell the land for ever: for the land is mine, and ye are strangers and sojourners before me.

And ye shall give the land to be redeemed in all your land.

If thy brother be poor, and sell thee his goods, and his neighbour come to him to redeem them, he shall redeem them that his brother hath sold.

But if a man have no loosener, and he be able to do so much with his hand, that he looseneth it in part,

And it shall be reckoned from the year that he sold it, and the rest of the years shall be restored unto the seller, that he may recover his goods.

And if his hand be not able to find so much as shall be restored unto him, then that which he hath sold shall be in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee; and in that year it shall go out, and he shall recover his possession.

He that selleth a house within the wall of the city shall have a whole year to redeem it; and that shall be the time wherein he may redeem it.

And if he redeem it not before the whole year be expired, then the buyer shall keep it for ever, and his seed, and shall not go out in the year of jubile.

And if it be a house in the village, and there be no wall about it, it shall be counted as the field of the land, and shall be let go, and shall go out in the year of jubile.

The cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities, where their substance is, shall be redeemed for ever.

And whosoever shall redeem any thing of the Levites shall leave it in the year of jubile, whether it be house or city which he possessed: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

But the field before their cities shall not be sold: for it is their possession for ever.

If thy brother be poor, and diminish beside thee, then thou shalt receive him as a stranger, or as a sojourner, that he may live beside thee.

And thou shalt not take usury of him, nor overcharge him: but thou shalt fear thy God, that thy brother may live beside thee.

For thou shalt not give him thy money for usury, neither shalt thou give him thy meat for ransom.

For I am the LORD your God, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, to be your God.

If thy brother be poor beside thee, and sell himself unto thee, thou shalt not suffer him to serve thee as a bondman,

But as a hired servant and a sojourner shall he be with thee, and shall serve thee until the year of jubile.

Then he shall go forth from thee, and his children with him; and he shall return unto his seed, and to his fathers’ substance.

For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: therefore they shall not be sold in bondage.

And thou shalt not rule over them with severity, but shalt fear thy God.

But if thou wilt have bondmen and bondmaids, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about thee,

Of the sojourners that are strangers among you, and of their seed which they beget among you in your land, the same shall ye have for your own.

And ye shall possess them, and your children after you, for a possession by and by; and ye shall make them bond servants. But over your brethren the children of Israel shall not rule one against another with severity.

If any stranger or sojourner increase with thee, and thy brother be poor beside him, and sell himself to the stranger or sojourner with thee, or to any of his tribe, 48. Then he shall have a right to be redeemed after he hath sold, and some one of his brethren may redeem him,

or his cousin, or his cousin’s son, or else his next of kin of his family; or if his own hand
acquire so much, he shall be loosed.

And he shall reckon with his buyer from the year that he sold himself unto the year of jubilee; and the money shall be reckoned according to the number of the years of his selling; and his daily wages shall be reckoned in all that time.

If there be yet many years before the year of jubilee, he shall give the more to be redeemed after that he is bought.

But if there be few years left until the year of jubilee, then he shall give again after that time for his ransom, and shall add his daily wages from year to year.

And thou shalt not let rigour rule over him in thine eyes.

And if he be not loosed in this way, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, and his children with him.

For the children of Israel are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Chap. 6, v. 1. Ye shall not make unto yourselves any graven image, neither shall ye set up for yourselves any pillar, nor set any graven image in your land, to worship before it: for I am the LORD your God.

Keep my sabbaths, and fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
(Leviticus)
Chapter 26
Threatened curse and promised blessing.

Will ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, 4. Then will I give you rain in his season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit.

And the threshing time shall be unto the vintage, and the vintage shall be unto the sowing time. And ye shall have bread in abundance, and shall dwell safely in your land.

I will give peace in your land, and ye shall sleep, and none shall affright you. I will put away the evil beasts out of your land, and no sword shall pass through your land.

Ye shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

Five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall chase ten thousand: for your enemies shall fall before you on the sword.

And I will turn