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on the Day of Atonement,[a] let the trumpets blow loud and long throughout the land. 10 For the fiftieth year shall be holy, a time to proclaim liberty throughout the land to all enslaved debtors, and a time for the canceling of all public and private debts. It shall be a year when all the family estates sold to others shall be returned to the original owners or their heirs.

11 “What a happy year it will be! In it you shall not sow, nor gather crops nor grapes;

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 25:9 the Day of Atonement, literally, “the tenth day of the seventh month (of the Hebrew calendar).

第五十年的七月十日贖罪日那天,你們要在境內各地吹號。 10 你們要以這年為聖年,向境內所有居民宣告自由。這年將成為你們的禧年。各人要得回賣掉的祖業,賣身為奴的可以自由回家。 11 第五十年是你們的禧年。這一年你們不可耕種,不可收割自生自長的莊稼,也不可摘未經修剪而結的葡萄。

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