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The Year of Jubilee(A)

You shall count seven sabbath weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the horn blasts on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall make the sound of the horn throughout all your land. 10 You shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee to you, and each of you shall return to his possession, and every person shall return to his family. 11 That fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you. You shall neither sow nor reap that which grows by itself, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines. 12 For it is the Jubilee. It shall be holy to you. You shall eat the produce of the field.

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The Year of Jubilee

“‘And you[a] shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and they shall be for you time periods of[b] years: forty-nine[c] years. And you[d] shall cause a loud horn blast[e] to be heard on the seventh month on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you[f] shall cause a ram’s horn to be heard in all your[g] land. 10 And you[h] shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. It is a Jubilee; it shall be for you, and you shall return. You must return—everyone to his property and everyone to his clan.[i] 11 You[j] shall have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee;[k] you must not reap its aftergrowth, and you must not harvest its unpruned vines. 12 Because it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy to you. You must eat its[l] produce from the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:8 Singular throughout this verse
  2. Leviticus 25:8 Literally “days of”
  3. Leviticus 25:8 Literally “nine and forty”
  4. Leviticus 25:9 Singular
  5. Leviticus 25:9 Literally “a ram’s horn of a blast”
  6. Leviticus 25:9 Plural
  7. Leviticus 25:9 Plural
  8. Leviticus 25:10 Plural throughout this verse
  9. Leviticus 25:10 Or “each of you must return to his property and to his clan”
  10. Leviticus 25:11 Plural throughout this verse
  11. Leviticus 25:11 Literally “a Jubilee it the year of the fiftieth year it shall be for you”
  12. Leviticus 25:12 That is, the field’s