1. Then the Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying:
2. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.
3. For six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its fruit,
4. but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath for the Lord. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard.
5. That which grows by itself from your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines, for it is a year of complete rest for the land.
6. The sabbath produce of the land shall be food for you: for you, and for your male and female servants, and for your hired servant, and for your stranger who sojourns with you,
7. and for your livestock, and for the wild animals in your land, shall all its increase be food.
8. You shall count seven sabbath weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9. Then you shall sound the horn blasts on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall make the sound of the horn throughout all your land.
10. You shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee to you, and each of you shall return to his possession, and every person shall return to his family.
11. That fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you. You shall neither sow nor reap that which grows by itself, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines.
12. For it is the Jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You shall eat the produce of the field.
13. In the Year of Jubilee you shall return to your property.
14. If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from your neighbor, you shall not oppress one another.
15. According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall pay your neighbor, and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
16. According to the increase of years you shall increase the price, and according to the decrease of years you shall diminish the price of it. For he shall sell to you according to the number of years of crops.
17. You shall not therefore oppress one another, but you shall fear your God. For I am the Lord your God.
18. Therefore you shall do My statutes, and keep My decrees, and do them, and you shall dwell securely in the land.
19. The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill and live securely in it.
20. If you shall say, “What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we shall not sow nor gather in our crop?”