⁸Count seven times seven years, a total of 49 years. ⁹Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement, send someone to blow a trumpet throughout the whole land. ¹⁰In this way you shall set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to the original owner or his descendants, and anyone who has been sold as a slave shall return to his family. ¹¹You shall not sow your fields or harvest the corn that grows by itself or gather the grapes in your unpruned vineyards. ¹²The whole year shall be sacred for you; you shall eat only what the fields produce of themselves.

¹³In this year all property that has been sold shall be restored to its original owner. ¹⁴So when you sell land to your fellow-Israelite or buy land from him, do not deal unfairly. ¹⁵The price is to be fixed according to the number of years the land can produce crops before the next Year of Restoration. ¹⁶If there are many years, the price shall be higher, but if there are only a few years, the price shall be lower, because what is being sold is the number of crops the land can produce. ¹⁷Do not cheat a fellow-Israelite, but obey the Lord your God.

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