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On the Day of Cleansing, you must blow the horn of a male sheep; this will be on the tenth day of the seventh month. You must blow the horn through the whole country. 10 Make the fiftieth year a special year, and announce freedom for all the people living in your country. This time will be called Jubilee.[a] You will each go back to your own property, each to your own family and family group. 11 The fiftieth year will be a special time for you to celebrate. Don’t plant seeds, or harvest the crops that grow by themselves, or gather grapes from the vines that are not trimmed.

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  1. 25:10 Jubilee This word comes from the Hebrew word for a horn of a male sheep.

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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