Leviticus 25

1 Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

1 耶和华在西奈山上对摩西说：

2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

2 “你要告诉以色列人：你们到了我将要赐给你们的土地后，要让土地在耶和华面前守安息。

3 For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

3 六年之内，你们可以耕种田地，修整葡萄园，收获出产。

4 But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

4 但第七年是要向耶和华守的安息年，土地要完全休息。你们不可耕种，不可修整葡萄园。

5 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.

5 不可收割自生自长的庄稼，也不可摘未经修剪而结的葡萄。这一年土地要完全休耕。

6 Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

6 但安息年间土地里自生自长的，你们和你们的仆婢、雇工与住在你们中间的外族人都可以吃，

7 and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

7 你们的牲畜和境内的野兽也可以吃。

8 And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

8 “你们要计算七个安息年，即七个七年，共四十九年。

9 Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.

9 第五十年的七月十日赎罪日那天，你们要在境内各地吹号。

10 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.

10 你们要以这一年为圣年，向境内所有居民宣告自由。这一年将成为你们的禧年。你们要各归祖业，各回本家。

11 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.

11 第五十年是你们的禧年。这一年你们不可耕种，不可收割自生自长的庄稼，也不可摘未经修剪而结的葡萄。

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

12 这是禧年，是你们的圣年，你们可以吃土地里自生自长的。

13 In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

13 在禧年，各人要回到祖业。

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

14 因此，你们和同胞买卖田地时，不可彼此亏负。

15 You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.

15 买卖双方要按照距下个禧年的年数和收成的年数定价。

16 You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.

16 距下个禧年的年数多，价钱就高；年数少，价钱就低。因为卖的是田地收成的次数。

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

17 要敬畏你们的上帝，不可彼此亏负。我是你们的上帝耶和华。

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

18 你们要遵行我的律例，持守我的典章，就可以在那片土地上安居。

19 Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.

19 土地会出产丰富，使你们丰衣足食、安然居住。

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

20 你们可能会问，‘第七年不种不收，我们吃什么？’

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

21 我要在第六年赐福给你们，使田地的出产够你们吃三年。

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

22 第八年开始耕种时，你们仍会吃陈粮，一直吃到第九年的收割季节。

23 The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

23 “你们不可永远卖掉土地，因为土地是我的，你们只不过是寄居在那片土地上的过客。

24 Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

24 你们购买每一块土地时，都必须让原主保留赎回的权利。

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

25 如果有人因贫穷而卖掉土地，他的近亲要把卖掉的土地赎回来。

26 Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

26 如果无人为他赎回，而他自己渐渐富裕起来，有能力赎回，

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

27 他要计算卖掉土地的年数，退还距下个禧年所剩年数的地价，便可以赎回自己的土地。

28 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.

28 如果他没有能力赎回，所卖的土地在禧年之前要属于买主。到了禧年，买主必须把土地归还原主。

29 If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

29 “如果有人卖掉自己城里的房子，要保留一年赎回权。卖掉房子的一年之内，他可以赎回。

30 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.

30 如果一年之内他没有赎回，房子便永远归买主所有，就是到了禧年也不用归还。

31 But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

31 如果房子在四围无墙的乡村，要视房子为乡下的土地，原主可以赎回；到了禧年，买主必须将房子归还。

32 As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.

32 在利未人的城邑里，利未人永远有权赎回所卖的房子。

33 So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.

33 如果他们没有赎回，到了禧年要把房子归还他们，因为在利未人的城里，利未人的房屋是他们在以色列人中所拥有的产业。

34 But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

34 但不可出卖利未人城郊的草场，那是他们永远拥有的产业。

35 Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

35 “如果你们的同胞生活日益贫穷，难以维生，你们要像照顾外族人和寄居者一样照顾他的生活，让他住在你们当中。

36 Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

36 不可向他放债取利，要敬畏你们的上帝，让他住在你们当中。

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

37 你们借钱给他，不可收取利息；借粮给他，不可谋利。

38 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.

38 我是你们的上帝耶和华。我曾经带领你们离开埃及，为要把迦南赐给你们，并做你们的上帝。

39 If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

39 “如果你们的同胞穷得把自己卖给你们，不可把他当作奴隶，

40 Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

40 要待他像雇工和寄居者一样。他要为你工作到禧年。

41 Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.

41 到了禧年，他和孩子们便可以离开你们，回到自己的宗族和祖业。

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

42 因为以色列人是我的仆人，是我从埃及带出来的，所以他们不可卖身为奴。

43 You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

43 你们也不可苛待他们，要敬畏你们的上帝。

44 Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

44 你们可以从邻国购买奴隶，

45 You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.

45 也可以买居住或出生在你们境内的外族人。这些人可以作你们的产业。

46 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.

46 你们可以将他们作为产业传给你们的子孙，使他们终身做奴隶。但你们不可苛待自己的同胞。

47 If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,

47 “如果你们中间的外族人渐渐富裕，你们同胞中却有人日益贫穷，把自己卖给外族人或他们的族人，

48 he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:

48 他可以保留赎身的权利。他的兄弟、

49 either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

49 叔伯、堂兄弟或其他近亲都可以赎回他。如果他富裕起来，也可以赎回自己。

50 He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

50 他要和买主计算从自己卖身为奴到下个禧年之间的年数，然后按雇工的工价，照年数计算赎价。

51 If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

51 如果离禧年还有很多年，他就要按年数和当初卖价的比例偿还赎价。

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

52 如果离禧年只有不多的几年，他就要按年数偿还赎身费。

53 He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

53 买主要待他如按年雇用的工人。你们要确保买主不会苛待他。

54 Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.

54 如果禧年来临前他没有被赎回，到了禧年他和孩子们都要获得自由。

55 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.

55 因为以色列人是我的仆人，是我从埃及领出来的仆人。我是你们的上帝耶和华。