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Leviticus 25:8

6 Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

7 and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

9 Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.

10 So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.
KJV
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
WEB
“‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
ASV
And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.
DARBY
And thou shalt count seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; so that the days of the seven sabbaths of years be unto thee forty-nine years.
BLB
And you shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years—seven years seven times—and the days of seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you nine and forty years.
ÅB
Så skal du telle fram syv sabbatsår, syv ganger syv år, så tiden for de syv sabbatsår blir ni og førti år.
OTB
"'Du skal telle syv sabbatsår—syv ganger syv år—slik at de syv sabbatsårene utgjør en periode på førtini år.
B1930
Så skal du telle frem syv sabbatsår, syv ganger syv år, så tiden for de syv sabbatsår blir ni og firti år.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Leviticus 23:15

    From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks.

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  • Genesis 2:2

    And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

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