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Your livestock and the wild animals in your land will also be allowed to eat what the land produces.

The Year of Jubilee

“In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven sets of seven years, adding up to forty-nine years in all. Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year,[a] blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land.

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Footnotes

  1. 25:9 Hebrew on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement; see 23:27a and the note there.

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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