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The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai ,
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Say to the people of Israel ,
When you come into the land which I give you ,
the land shall keep a sabbath to the LORD .
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Six years you shall sow your field ,
and six years you shall prune your vineyard ,
and gather in its fruits ;
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but in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land ,
a sabbath to the LORD ;
you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard .
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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 .
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The sabbath of the land shall provide food for you ,
for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you ;
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for your cattle also and for the beasts that are in your land all its yield shall be for food .
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And you shall count seven weeks of years ,
seven times seven years ,
so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall be to you forty-nine years .
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Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month ;
on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land .
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And you shall hallow the fiftieth year ,
and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants ;
it shall be a jubilee for you ,
when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family .
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A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you ;
in it you shall neither sow ,
nor reap what grows of itself ,
nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines .
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For it is a jubilee ;
it shall be holy to you ;
you shall eat what it yields out of the field .
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In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property .
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And if you sell to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor ,
you shall not wrong one another .
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According to the number of years after the jubilee ,
you shall buy from your neighbor ,
and according to the number of years for crops he shall sell to you .
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If the years are many you shall increase the price ,
and if the years are few you shall diminish the price ,
for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you .
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You shall not wrong one another ,
but you shall fear your God ;
for I am the LORD your God .
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Therefore you shall do my statutes ,
and keep my ordinances and perform them ;
so you will dwell in the land securely .
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The land will yield its fruit ,
and you will eat your fill ,
and dwell in it securely .
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And if you say , `
What shall we eat in the seventh year ,
if we may not sow or gather in our crop ?'
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I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year ,
so that it will bring forth fruit for three years .
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When you sow in the eighth year ,
you will be eating old produce ;
until the ninth year ,
when its produce comes in ,
you shall eat the old .
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The land shall not be sold in perpetuity ,
for the land is mine ;
for you are strangers and sojourners with me .
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And in all the country you possess ,
you shall grant a redemption of the land .