1. The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai,
2. “Tell the Israelites: When you come into the land I’m giving you, the land will celebrate a year to honor the Lord.
3. Then, for six years you may plant crops in your fields, prune your vineyards, and gather what they produce.
4. However, the seventh year will be a festival year for the land. It will be a year to honor the Lord. Don’t plant crops in your fields or prune your vineyards.
5. Don’t harvest what grows by itself or harvest grapes from your vines. That year will be a festival for the land.
6. Whatever the land produces during that year is for all of you to eat—for you, your male and female slaves, your hired workers, foreigners among you,
7. your animals and the wild animals in your land. Everything the land produces will be yours to eat.
8. “Count seven of these years seven times for a total of 49 years.
9. On the tenth day of the seventh month, the special day for the payment for sin, sound rams’ horns throughout the country.
10. Set apart the fiftieth year as holy, and proclaim liberty to everyone living in the land. This is your jubilee year. Every slave will be freed in order to return to his property and to his family.
11. That fiftieth year will be your jubilee year. Don’t plant or harvest what grows by itself or pick grapes from the vines in the land.