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Leviticus - ch 25 v 1 - 20
- Yahweh said to Moses in Mount Sinai,
- "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.
- Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
- but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
- What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
- The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.
- For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.
- "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
- Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
- You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
- For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.
- "'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
- "'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
- According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
- According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.
- You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.
- "'Therefore you shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety.
- The land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.
- If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"
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