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The Year of Jubilee

‘You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on (A)the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. 10 You shall thus set apart as holy the fiftieth year and (B)proclaim [a]a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, [b]and (C)each of you shall return to his own possession of land, [c]and each of you shall return to his family.

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  1. Leviticus 25:10 Or liberty
  2. Leviticus 25:10 Or when
  3. Leviticus 25:10 Or when