00:00A reading from the book of Leviticus, chapter 25, verse 1, and verses 8 to 17.
00:06The Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
00:09Seven weeks of years shall you count seven times seven years,
00:13so that the seven cycles amount to forty-nine years.
00:17Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, let the trumpet resound.
00:21On this, the day of atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echo throughout your land.
00:26This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants.
00:32It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property,
00:36every one to his own family estate.
00:38In this fiftieth year, your year of jubilee, you shall not sow,
00:42nor shall you reap the aftergrowth, or pick the grapes from the untrimmed vines.
00:47Since this is the jubilee, which shall be sacred for you,
00:50you may not eat of its produce, except as taken directly from the field.
00:54In this year of jubilee, then, every one of you shall return to his own property.
01:00Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor, or buy any from him, do not deal unfairly.
01:05On the basis of the number of years since the last jubilee,
01:08shall you purchase the land from your neighbor.
01:11And so also, on the basis of the number of years for crops, shall he sell it to you.
01:16When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more.
01:19When the years are few, the price shall be so much the less.
01:22For it is really the number of crops that he sells you.
01:26Do not deal unfairly then, but stand in fear of your God.
01:30I, the Lord, am your God.
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