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The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you; for your cattle also and for the beasts that are in your land all its yield shall be for food.

The Year of Jubilee

“And you shall count seven weeks[a] of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:8 Or sabbaths

Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year(A) will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you, as well as for your livestock and the wild animals(B) in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

The Year of Jubilee(C)(D)

“‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years.

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