Leviticus 25:1-13 ▼

1 The LORD told Moses on Mount Sinai,

2 |Tell the Israelis that when you enter the land that I'm about to give you, you are to let the land observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

3 For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce.

4 But the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of rest for the land—a Sabbath for the LORD. You are not to plant your field or prune your vineyard.

5 You are not to gather what grows from the spilled kernels of your crops. You are not to pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines. Let it be a year of Sabbath for the land.

6 You may take the Sabbath produce of the land for your food—you, your male and maid servants, your hired laborers, and the resident alien with you.

7 The cattle and the wild animals in your land—everything it produces—are for your food.

8 |Count for yourselves seven years of Sabbaths—seven times seven years. This set of seven weeks of years total 49 years for you.

9 Sound a horn on the tenth day of the seventh month of this fiftieth year. Likewise, on the Day of Atonement, sound the horn throughout your land.

10 Set aside and consecrate the fiftieth year to declare liberty throughout the land for all of its inhabitants. It is to be a jubilee for you. Every person is to return to his own land that he has inherited. Likewise, every person is to return to his tribe.

11 The fiftieth year is to be a year of jubilee for you. You are not to sow or harvest the spilled kernels that grow of themselves or pick grapes from the untrimmed vines

12 because it's the jubilee—it's sacred for you. But you may eat its produce from the field.

13 |During this year of jubilee, each person is to return to his own land that he has inherited.