6-7. However, you and your slaves and your hired workers, as well as any domestic or wild animals, may eat whatever grows on its own.
8. Once every forty-nine years
9. on the tenth day of the seventh month, which is also the Great Day of Forgiveness, trumpets are to be blown everywhere in the land.
10. This fiftieth year is sacred—it is a time of freedom and of celebration when everyone will receive back their original property, and slaves will return home to their families.
11. This is a year of complete celebration, so don't plant any seed or harvest what your fields or vineyards produce.
12. In this time of sacred celebration you may eat only what grows on its own.
13. During this year, all property must go back to its original owner.
14-15. So when you buy or sell farmland, the price is to be determined by the number of crops it can produce before the next Year of Celebration. Don't try to cheat.
16. If it is a long time before the next Year of Celebration, the price will be higher, because what is really being sold are the crops that the land can produce.
17. I am the Lord your God, so obey me and don't cheat anyone.
18-19. If you obey my laws and teachings, you will live safely in the land and enjoy its abundant crops.
20. Don't ever worry about what you will eat during the seventh year when you are forbidden to plant or harvest.