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as well as for your livestock and for the wild animals in your land. All of the land’s produce can be eaten.

The Jubilee year

Count off seven weeks of years—that is, seven times seven—so that the seven weeks of years totals forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet[a] blown on the tenth day of the seventh month.[b] Have the trumpet blown throughout your land on the Day of Reconciliation.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:9 Heb shofar
  2. Leviticus 25:9 September–October, Tishrei

as well as for your livestock and the wild animals(A) in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.

The Year of Jubilee(B)(C)

“‘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(D) sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month;(E) on the Day of Atonement(F) sound the trumpet throughout your land.

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