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'You are also to count off seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven Sabbaths of years, that is, forty-nine years.

'You shall then sound a ram's horn ^(F1)abroad on ^(C1)the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.

'So you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and ^(C1)proclaim ^(F1)a release throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, ^(F2)and ^(C2)each of you shall return to his own property, ^(F2)and each of you shall return to his family.

'You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor harvest its aftergrowth, nor gather grapes from its untrimmed vines.

'For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat its produce from the field.

'^(C1)On this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his own property.

'Furthermore, if you make a sale to your friend, or buy from your friend's hand, ^(C1)you shall not ^(F1)wrong one another.

'Corresponding to the number of years after the jubilee, you shall buy from your friend; he is to sell to you according to the number of years of crops.

'^(C1)In proportion to ^(F1)a greater number of years you shall increase its price, and in proportion to ^(F2)fewer years you shall decrease its price, because it is the number of crops that he is selling to you.

'So ^(C1)you shall not ^(F1)wrong one another, but you shall ^(F2)fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

'You shall therefore ^(F1)follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that ^(C1)you may live securely on the land.

'Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.

'But if you say, "^(C1)What are we going to eat in the seventh year if we do not sow nor gather in our produce?"

then ^(C1)I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the produce for three years.

'When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat ^(C1)old things from the produce, eating the old until the ninth year when its produce comes in.