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your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land—all its produce will be for you[a] to eat.

Regulations for the Jubilee Year of Release

“‘You must count off[b] seven weeks of years, seven times seven years,[c] and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.[d] You must sound loud horn blasts[e]—in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement—you must sound the horn in your entire land.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:7 tn The words “for you” are implied.
  2. Leviticus 25:8 tn Heb “And you shall count off for yourself.”
  3. Leviticus 25:8 tn Heb “seven years seven times.”
  4. Leviticus 25:8 tn Heb “and they shall be for you, the days of the seven Sabbaths of years, forty-nine years.”
  5. Leviticus 25:9 sn On the “loud horn blasts” see the note on Lev 23:24, but unlike the language there, the Hebrew term for “horn” (שׁוֹפָר, shofar) actually appears here in this verse (twice).

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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