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Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, send someone to blow a trumpet throughout the whole land. 10 In this way you shall set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to the original owner or the descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves shall return to their families. 11 You shall not plant your fields or harvest the grain that grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards.

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Then have the trumpet(A) sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month;(B) on the Day of Atonement(C) sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty(D) throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee(E) for you; each of you is to return to your family property(F) and to your own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee(G) for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.(H)

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