Leviticus 25:1-13 ▼

1 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:

2 “ Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

3 You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.

4 But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the LORD : you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

5 You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.

6 Whatever the land produces during the Sabbath year can be food for you  — for yourself, your male or female slave , and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you.

7 All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.

8 “ You are to count seven sabbatical years, seven times seven years, so that the time period of the seven sabbatical years amounts to 49 .

9 Then you are to sound a trumpet loudly in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month; you will sound it throughout your land on the Day of Atonement.

10 You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

11 The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.

12 It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may only eat its produce directly from the field.

13 “ In this Year of Jubilee, each of you will return to his property.