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Leviticus 25:6-8
New English Translation
Leviticus 25:6-8
New English Translation
6 You may have the Sabbath produce[a] of the land to eat—you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,[b] 7 your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land—all its produce will be for you[c] to eat.
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8 “‘You must count off[d] seven weeks of years, seven times seven years,[e] and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.[f]
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- Leviticus 25:6 tn The word “produce” is not in the Hebrew text but is implied; cf. NASB “the sabbath products.”
- Leviticus 25:6 tn A “resident who stays” would be a foreign person who was probably residing as another kind of laborer in the household of a landowner (B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 170-71). See v. 35 below.
- Leviticus 25:7 tn The words “for you” are implied.
- Leviticus 25:8 tn Heb “And you shall count off for yourself.”
- Leviticus 25:8 tn Heb “seven years seven times.”
- Leviticus 25:8 tn Heb “and they shall be for you, the days of the seven Sabbaths of years, forty-nine years.”
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