Ezekiel 2:1-5
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The Vision of the Scroll
2 He said to me: “O mortal,[a] stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you.”(A) 2 And when he spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.(B) 3 He said to me, “Mortal, I am sending you to the people of Israel, to a nation[b] of rebels who have rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have transgressed against me to this very day.(C) 4 The descendants are impudent and stubborn. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’(D) 5 Whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house), they shall know that there has been a prophet among them.(E)
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Leviticus 25:1
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Leviticus 25:8-10
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The Year of Jubilee
8 “You shall count off seven weeks[a] of years, seven times seven years, so that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; on the tenth day of the seventh month—on the Day of Atonement—you shall have the trumpet sounded throughout all your land.(A) 10 And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you: you shall return, every one of you, to your property and every one of you to your family.(B)
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