旧约 - 利未记(Leviticus)第25章

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 give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.
And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.
Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.
Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem him:
Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.
And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
利未记第廿五章   第 25 章 

  利 25:1-7> 生活的担子是否令你疲累不堪?是时候停下来,休息一下吧…… 

  25:1-7 神规定每第七年要作安息年,在这一年中不耕种土地;为使土地恢复生产能力,这是最佳的方法,同时也是要使百姓记住,神管理一切,供给他们一切所需的。 

  利 25:8-17> 现今生态的失衡,是否源于人类违反了神所定的作息规律呢? 

  25:8-17 以色列人每五十年要过一次禧年。在这一年要取消一切债务,释放所有的奴仆,并且要将所有卖出的土地归还原主。圣经中没有提到以色列人曾履行禧年的事。他们若忠心按时过禧年,社会上就不会有永远的穷人。 

  利 25:23> 拥有的欲望是永远无法满足的,怎样看待自己所拥有的,才合乎神心意? 

  25:23 以色列百姓将来会占领迦南地,但是按照神的计划,只有祂自己才是绝对的主人,地永远属于神。祂要子民避免贪心和贫爱物质。要知道你管理的是神的产业,用这种态度来处理看待你的财产,你就会乐意以所拥有的去帮助别人。如果你把自己当作物主,就很难做到这一点。所以请你把自己当作照管财物的经理人,而不是当作物主。 

  利 25:35-37> 我该怎样帮助贫穷和有需要的人?捐款?探访?做义工?…… 

  25:35-37 神说忽略穷人乃是犯罪。祂不容许百姓中有永远的贫穷。经济基础稳固的家庭要援助穷人,解决他们的食宿。对于帮助贫穷人,我们往往没有伸出援手,这未必是缺少同情心,而是由于困难太大,使人觉得个人力量有限,杯水车薪,不知从何处着手。神并不是要你独力去清除贫穷,在你协助别人的时候,祂也不会要你忽略家庭。不过,祂实在要你在看到贫穷人的时候,尽所能地伸出援手,包括接他到你家里。 

  利 25:35-55> 孤儿寡妇是社会上的不幸,但更不幸的是社会上缺乏关怀…… 

  25:35-55 圣经强调要帮助贫穷无助的人,尤其是孤儿、寡妇与条件较差之人。在以色列的社会中,妇女没有赚钱谋生的机会,所以寡妇孤儿的处境特别凄凉。在农牧社会,严重残疾者极难找到工作,所以神叫百姓借钱给穷人,不可收取丝毫利息。由于没有政府的援助,个人和家庭对他们的帮助,就非常重要。 

  利 25:44> 智与愚、贫与富在神的眼中有什么分别呢? 

  25:44 神为什么许可以色列人买卖奴仆?按照他们的律法,对待奴仆跟别的民族是不一样的。他们把奴仆当作“人”对待,有人的尊严,而不是当作畜牲。例如,他们的奴仆可以和主人一同过宗教节期,一同欢乐,在安息日不用工作。圣经中并没有认同奴隶制度,只是表明它的存在。神的律法有许多对待奴仆的合情合理的条例。──《灵修版圣经注释》