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for your livestock and for the wild animals which are in your land. You may eat all its produce.[a]

The Jubilee

You shall count off seven weeks of years. Count off seven years seven times, so that the duration of the seven weeks of years is forty-nine years. Then you shall sound loud blasts on the ram’s horn. In the seventh month on the tenth day, on the Day of Atonement, you are to have a ram’s horn sounded throughout your land,

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:7 Verses 4-7 seem to forbid harvesting, storing, or selling the natural produce of the land but to allow everyone to eat it freely.

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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