¹ 耶和华在西乃山对摩西说：

² 你晓谕以色列人说：你们到了我所赐你们那地的时候，地就要向耶和华守安息。

³ 六年要耕种田地，也要修理葡萄园，收藏地的出产。

⁴ 第七年，地要守圣安息，就是向耶和华守的安息，不可耕种田地，也不可修理葡萄园。

⁵ 遗落自长的庄稼不可收割；没有修理的葡萄树也不可摘取葡萄。这年，地要守圣安息。

⁶ 地在安息年所出的，要给你和你的仆人、婢女、雇工人，并寄居的外人当食物。

⁷ 这年的土产也要给你的牲畜和你地上的走兽当食物。

⁸ 你要计算七个安息年，就是七七年。这便为你成了七个安息年，共是四十九年。

⁹ 当年七月初十日，你要大发角声；这日就是赎罪日，要在遍地发出角声。

¹⁰ 第五十年，你们要当作圣年，在遍地给一切的居民宣告自由。这年必为你们的禧年，各人要归自己的产业，各归本家。

¹¹ 第五十年要作为你们的禧年。这年不可耕种；地中自长的，不可收割；没有修理的葡萄树也不可摘取葡萄。

¹² 因为这是禧年，你们要当作圣年，吃地中自出的土产。

¹³ 这禧年，你们各人要归自己的地业。

¹⁴ 你若卖甚麽给邻舍，或是从邻舍的手中买甚麽，彼此不可亏负。

¹⁵ 你要按禧年以後的年数向邻舍买；他也要按年数的收成卖给你。

¹⁶ 年岁若多，要照数加添价值；年岁若少，要照数减去价值，因为他照收成的数目卖给你。

¹⁷ 你们彼此不可亏负，只要敬畏你们的神，因为我是耶和华─你们的神。

¹⁸ 我的律例，你们要遵行，我的典章，你们要谨守，就可以在那地上安然居住。

¹⁹ 地必出土产，你们就要吃饱，在那地上安然居住。

²⁰ 你们若说：这第七年我们不耕种，也不收藏土产，吃甚麽呢？

²¹ 我必在第六年将我所命的福赐给你们，地便生三年的土产。

²² 第八年，你们要耕种，也要吃陈粮，等到第九年出产收来的时候，你们还吃陈粮。

²³ 地不可永卖，因为地是我的；你们在我面前是客旅，是寄居的。

²⁴ 在你们所得为业的全地，也要准人将地赎回。

²⁵ 你的弟兄（弟兄是指本国人说；下同）若渐渐穷乏，卖了几分地业，他至近的亲属就要来把弟兄所卖的赎回。

²⁶ 若没有能给他赎回的，他自己渐渐富足，能够赎回，

²⁷ 就要算出卖地的年数，把馀剩年数的价值还那买主，自己便归回自己的地业。

²⁸ 倘若不能为自己得回所卖的，仍要存在买主的手里直到禧年；到了禧年，地业要出买主的手，自己便归回自己的地业。

²⁹ 人若卖城内的住宅，卖了以後，一年之内可以赎回；在一整年，必有赎回的权柄。

³⁰ 若在一整年之内不赎回，这城内的房屋就定准永归买主，世世代代为业；在禧年也不得出买主的手。

³¹ 但房屋在无城墙的村庄里，要看如乡下的田地一样，可以赎回；到了禧年，都要出买主的手。

³² 然而利未人所得为业的城邑，其中的房屋，利未人可以随时赎回。

³³ 若是一个利未人不将所卖的房屋赎回，是在所得为业的城内，到了禧年就要出买主的手，因为利未人城邑的房屋是他们在以色列人中的产业。

³⁴ 只是他们各城郊野之地不可卖，因为是他们永远的产业。

³⁵ 你的弟兄在你那里若渐渐贫穷，手中缺乏，你就要帮补他，使他与你同住，像外人和寄居的一样。

³⁶ 不可向他取利，也不可向他多要；只要敬畏你的神，使你的弟兄与你同住。

³⁷ 你借钱给他，不可向他取利；借粮给他，也不可向他多要。

³⁸ 我是耶和华─你们的神，曾领你们从埃及地出来，为要把迦南地赐给你们，要作你们的神。

³⁹ 你的弟兄若在你那里渐渐穷乏，将自己卖给你，不可叫他像奴仆服事你。

⁴⁰ 他要在你那里像雇工人和寄居的一样，要服事你直到禧年。

⁴¹ 到了禧年，他和他儿女要离开你，一同出去归回本家，到他祖宗的地业那里去。

⁴² 因为他们是我的仆人，是我从埃及地领出来的，不可卖为奴仆。

⁴³ 不可严严的辖管他，只要敬畏你的神。

⁴⁴ 至於你的奴仆、婢女，可以从你四围的国中买。

⁴⁵ 并且那寄居在你们中间的外人和他们的家属，在你们地上所生的，你们也可以从其中买人；他们要作你们的产业。

⁴⁶ 你们要将他们遗留给你们的子孙为产业，要永远从他们中间拣出奴仆；只是你们的弟兄以色列人，你们不可严严的辖管。

⁴⁷ 住在你那里的外人，或是寄居的，若渐渐富足，你的弟兄却渐渐穷乏，将自己卖给那外人，或是寄居的，或是外人的宗族，

⁴⁸ 卖了以後，可以将他赎回。无论是他的弟兄，

⁴⁹ 或伯叔、伯叔的儿子，本家的近支，都可以赎他。他自己若渐渐富足，也可以自赎。

⁵⁰ 他要和买主计算，从卖自己的那年起，算到禧年；所卖的价值照着年数多少，好像工人每年的工价。

⁵¹ 若缺少的年数多，就要按着年数从买价中偿还他的赎价

⁵² 若到禧年只缺少几年，就要按着年数和买主计算，偿还他的赎价。

⁵³ 他和买主同住，要像每年雇的工人，买主不可严严的辖管他。

⁵⁴ 他若不这样被赎，到了禧年，要和他的儿女一同出去。

⁵⁵ 因为以色列人都是我的仆人，是我从埃及地领出来的。我是耶和华─你们的神。

¹ Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

² God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am."

³ He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

⁴ I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."

⁵ Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

⁶ They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

⁷ his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.

⁸ These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

⁹ The sons of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

¹⁰ The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman.

¹¹ The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

¹² The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

¹³ The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron.

¹⁴ The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.

¹⁵ These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

¹⁶ The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

¹⁷ The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

¹⁸ These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.

¹⁹ The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁰ To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

²¹ The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

²² These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

²³ The son of Dan: Hushim.

²⁴ The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

²⁵ These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

²⁶ All the souls who came with Jacob into Egypt, who were his direct descendants, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were sixty-six.

²⁷ The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

²⁸ He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

²⁹ Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

³⁰ Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are still alive."

³¹ Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

³² These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

³³ It will happen, when Pharaoh summons you, and will say, 'What is your occupation?'

³⁴ that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians."