The Year of Jubilee(A)(B)

“‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet(C) sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month;(D) on the Day of Atonement(E) sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty(F) throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee(G) for you; each of you is to return to your family property(H) and to your own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee(I) for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.(J) 12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.

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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