Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Leviticus 25:7-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

7. All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.

8. Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years:

9. And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.

10. And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:

11. Because it is the jubilee and the fiftieth year. You shall not sow, nor reap the things that grow in the field of their own accord, neither shall you gather the firstfruits of the vines,

12. Because of the sanctification of the jubilee: but as they grow you shall presently eat them.

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

14. When thou shalt sell any thing to thy neighbour, or shalt buy of him; grieve not thy brother: but thou shalt buy of him according to the number of years from the jubilee.

15. And he shall sell to thee according to the computation of the fruits.

16. The more years remain after the jubilee, the more shall the price increase: and the less time is counted, so much the less shall the purchase cost. For he shall sell to thee the time of the fruits.

17. Do not afflict your countrymen, but let every one fear his God: because I am the Lord your God.

18. Do my precepts, and keep my judgments, and fulfil them: that you may dwell in the land without any fear,