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Leviticus 25:9-25 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

9. And you shall sound the trumpet in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, at the time of the atonement, throughout all your land.

10. And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a remission for all the inhabitants of your land: for the same is the Jubilee. A man shall return to his possession, and each one shall go back to his original family,

11. for it is the Jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, and you shall not reap what grows in the field of its own accord, and you shall not gather the first-fruits of the crop,

12. due to the sanctification of the Jubilee. But you shall eat them as they present themselves.

13. In the year of the Jubilee, all shall return to their possessions.

14. When you will sell anything to your fellow citizen, or buy anything from him, do not cause your brother grief, but buy from him according to the number of years from the Jubilee,

15. and he shall sell to you according to the computation of the produce.

16. The more years that will remain after the Jubilee, the more the price shall increase, and the less the time is numbered, so much less shall the purchase price be. For he will sell to you the time for the produce.

17. Do be willing to afflict your countrymen, but let each one fear his God. For I am the Lord your God.

18. Accomplish my precepts, and observe my judgments, and complete them, so that you may be able to live in the land without any fear,

19. and so that the soil may produce its fruits for you, from which you may eat, even to fullness, dreading violence by no one.

20. But if you will say: What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and do not gather our produce?

21. I will give my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall yield the produce of three years.

22. And in the eighth year you shall sow, but you shall eat from the old produce, until the ninth year, until what is new matures, you shall eat what is old.

23. Also, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for it is mine, and you are newcomers and settlers to me.

24. Therefore, every region of your possession shall be sold under the condition of redemption.

25. If your brother, being in need, will have sold his little possession and his close relative is willing, he is able to redeem what he had sold.

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