Liber Leviticus, 25

1. Locutusque est Dominus ad Moysen in monte Sinai di cens:

1. The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

2. “Loquere filiis Israel et dices ad eos: Quando ingressi fueritis terram, quam ego dabo vobis, sabbatizet terra sabbatum Domino.

2. "Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD.

3. Sex annis seres agrum tuum et sex annis putabis vineam tuam colligesque fructus eius;

3. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;

4. septimo autem anno, sabbatum requietionis erit terrae, sabbatum Domino: agrum tuum non seres et vineam tuam non putabis.

4. but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

5. Quae sponte gignit humus, non metes et uvas vineae tuae non putatae non colliges quasi vindemiam; annus enim requietionis erit terrae.

5. What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather; it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

6. Et erit sabbatum terrae vobis in cibum: tibi et servo tuo, ancillae et mercennario tuo et advenis, qui peregrinantur apud te,

6. The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you;

7. iumentis tuis et animalibus, quae in terra tua sunt, omnia, quae nascuntur, praebebunt cibum.

7. for your cattle also and for the beasts that are in your land all its yield shall be for food.

8. Numerabis quoque tibi septem hebdomadas annorum, id est septem septies, quae simul faciunt annos quadraginta novem;

8. "And you shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

9. et clanges bucina mense septimo, decima die mensis expiationis die clangetis tuba in universa terra vestra.

9. Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.

10. Sanctificabitisque annum quinquagesimum et vocabitis remissionem in terra cunctis habitatoribus eius: ipse est enim iobeleus. Revertemini unusquisque ad possessionem suam, et unusquisque rediet ad familiam pristinam.

10. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family.

11. Iobeleus erit vobis quinquagesimus annus. Non seretis neque metetis sponte in agro nascentia neque vineas non putatas vindemiabitis

11. A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you; in it you shall neither sow, nor reap what grows of itself, nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines.

12. ob sanctificationem iobelei; sed de agro statim ablatas comedetis fruges.

12. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat what it yields out of the field.

13. Hoc anno iobelei rediet unusquisque vestrum ad possessionem suam.

13. "In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

14. Quando vendes quippiam civi tuo vel emes ab eo, ne contristet unusquisque fratrem suum; sed iuxta numerum annorum post iobeleum emes ab eo,

14. And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

15. et iuxta supputationem annorum frugum vendet tibi.

15. According to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years for crops he shall sell to you.

16. Quanto plures anni remanserint post iobeleum, tanto crescet et pretium; et quanto minus temporis numeraveris, tanto minoris et emptio constabit: tempus enim frugum vendet tibi.

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

17. Nolite affligere contribules vestros, sed timeas Deum tuum, quia ego Dominus Deus vester.

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

18. Facite praecepta mea et iudicia, custodite et implete ea, ut habitare possitis in terra absque ullo pavore,

18. "Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and perform them; so you will dwell in the land securely.

19. et gignat vobis humus fructus suos, quibus vescamini usque ad saturitatem, et habitabitis super terram, nullius impetum formidantes.

19. The land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill, and dwell in it securely.

20. Quod si dixeritis: "Quid comedemus anno septimo, si non seruerimus neque collegerimus fruges nostras?".

20. And if you say, `What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?'

21. Dabo benedictionem meam vobis anno sexto, et faciet fructus trium annorum,

21. I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that it will bring forth fruit for three years.

22. seretisque anno octavo et comedetis veteres fruges usque ad nonum annum; donec nova nascantur, edetis vetera.

22. When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating old produce; until the ninth year, when its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.

23. Terra quoque non veniet in perpetuum, quia mea est, et vos advenae et coloni mei estis.

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

24. Unde cuncta regio possessionis vestrae sub redemptionis condicione a vobis vendetur.

24. And in all the country you possess, you shall grant a redemption of the land.

25. Si attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit partem possessionis suae, veniet ut redemptor propinquus eius, et redimet, quod ille vendiderat.

25. "If your brother becomes poor, and sells part of his property, then his next of kin shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.

26. Sin autem non habuerit redemptorem et ipse pretium ad redimendum potuerit invenire,

26. If a man has no one to redeem it, and then himself becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it,

27. computabuntur fructus ex eo tempore, quo vendidit; et, quod reliquum est, reddet emptori sicque recipiet possessionem suam.

27. let him reckon the years since he sold it and pay back the overpayment to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.

28. Quod si non invenerit manus eius, ut reddat pretium, habebit emptor, quod emerat, usque ad annum iobeleum. In ipso enim omnis venditio rediet ad dominum et ad possessorem pristinum.

28. But if he has not sufficient means to get it back for himself, then what he sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the year of jubilee; in the jubilee it shall be released, and he shall return to his property.

29. Qui vendiderit domum intra urbis muros, habebit licentiam redimendi, donec unus impleatur annus.

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

30. Si non redemerit, et anni circulus fuerit evolutus, emptor possidebit eam et posteri eius in perpetuum; et redimi non poterit, etiam in iobeleo.

30. If it is not redeemed within a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him who bought it, throughout his generations; it shall not be released in the jubilee.

31. Sin autem in villa fuerit domus, quae muros non habet, agrorum iure vendetur: potest redimi et in iobeleo revertetur ad dominum.

31. But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country; they may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the jubilee.

32. Aedes Levitarum, quae in urbibus possessionis eorum sunt, semper possunt ab eis redimi.

32. Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites may redeem at any time.

33. Si autem quis redemerit a Levitis, domus et urbs in iobeleo revertentur ad dominos; quia domus urbium leviticarum pro possessionibus eorum sunt inter filios Israel.

33. And if one of the Levites does not exercise his right of redemption, then the house that was sold in a city of their possession shall be released in the jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the people of Israel.

34. Suburbana autem pascua eorum non venient, quia possessio sempiterna est eis.

34. But the fields of common land belonging to their cities may not be sold; for that is their perpetual possession.

35. Si attenuatus fuerit frater tuus, et infirma manus eius apud te, suscipies eum quasi advenam et peregrinum, et vivet tecum.

35. "And if your brother becomes poor, and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall maintain him; as a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you.

36. Ne accipias usuras ab eo nec amplius quam dedisti: time Deum tuum, ut vivere possit frater tuus apud te.

36. Take no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother may live beside you.

37. Pecuniam tuam non dabis ei ad usuram nec plus aequo exiges pro cibo tuo.

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

38. Ego Dominus Deus vester, qui eduxi vos de terra Aegypti, ut darem vobis terram Chanaan et essem vester Deus.

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

39. Si paupertate compulsus vendiderit se tibi frater tuus, non eum opprimes servitute servorum,

39. "And if your brother becomes poor beside you, and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:

40. sed quasi mercennarius et colonus erit tecum. Usque ad annum iobeleum operabitur apud te

40. he shall be with you as a hired servant and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee;

41. et postea egredietur cum liberis suis et revertetur ad cognationem suam et ad possessionem patrum suorum.

41. then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own family, and return to the possession of his fathers.

42. Mei enim servi sunt, et ego eduxi eos de terra Aegypti: non venient condicione servorum;

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

43. ne affligas eum per po tentiam, sed metuito Deum tuum.

43. You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

44. Servus et ancilla sint tibi de nationibus, quae in circuitu vestro sunt; de illis emetis servum et ancillam.

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

45. De filiis quoque advenarum, qui peregrinantur apud vos, emetis et de cognatione eorum, quae est apud vos et quam genuerint in terra vestra, hos habebitis in possessionem

45. You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their families that are with you, who have been born in your land; and they may be your property.

46. et hereditario iure transmittetis ad posteros ac possidebitis in aeternum ut servos; fratres autem vestros filios Israel ne opprimatis cum potentia.

46. You may bequeath them to your sons after you, to inherit as a possession for ever; you may make slaves of them, but over your brethren the people of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.

47. Si invaluerit apud vos manus advenae atque peregrini, et attenuatus frater tuus vendiderit se ei aut cuiquam de stirpe eius,

47. "If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to a member of the stranger's family,

48. post venditionem potest redimi. Unus ex fratribus suis redimet eum

48. then after he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brothers may redeem him,

49. et patruus et patruelis et consanguineus et affinis. Sin autem et ipse potuerit, redimat se,

49. or his uncle, or his cousin may redeem him, or a near kinsman belonging to his family may redeem him; or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.

50. supputatis dumtaxat cum emptore annis a tempore venditionis suae usque ad annum iobeleum, et pecunia, qua venditus fuerat, iuxta annorum numerum et rationem mercennarii supputata.

50. He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his release shall be according to the number of years; the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.

51. Si plures fuerint anni, qui remanent usque ad iobeleum, secundum hos reddet et pretium redemptionis de pecunia emptionis;

51. If there are still many years, according to them he shall refund out of the price paid for him the price for his redemption.

52. si pauci, ponet rationem cum eo; iuxta annorum numerum reddet emptori, quod reliquum est annorum,

52. If there remain but a few years until the year of jubilee, he shall make a reckoning with him; according to the years of service due from him he shall refund the money for his redemption.

53. quibus ante servivit, mercedibus mercennarii imputatis. Non affliget eum violenter in conspectu tuo.

53. As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him; he shall not rule with harshness over him in your sight.

54. Quod si per haec redimi non potuerit, anno iobeleo egredietur cum liberis suis:

54. And if he is not redeemed by these means, then he shall be released in the year of jubilee, he and his children with him.

55. mei sunt enim servi filii Israel, quos eduxi de terra Aegypti. Ego Dominus Deus vester”.

55. For to me the people of Israel are servants, they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.