Leviticus 25:3-15

³six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt cut thy vine-yard, and thou shalt gather the fruits thereof;

⁴forsooth in the seventh year shall be the sabbath of the earth, of the resting of the Lord; thou shalt not sow the field, and thou shalt not cut the vineyard,

⁵thou shalt not reap those things which the earth bringeth forth freely, and thou shalt not gather the grapes of thy first fruits, as vintage; for it is the year of resting of the land;

⁶but those fruits shall be to you into meat, to thee, and to thy servant, and to thine handmaid, and to thine hired man, and to the comeling that is a pilgrim with thee;

⁷all things that come forth, shall give meat to thy work beasts, and thy small beasts.

⁸Also thou shalt number to thee seven weeks of years, that is, seven times seven, which altogether make nine and forty years;

⁹and thou shalt sound with a clarion in the seventh month, in the tenth day of the month, in the time of propitiation, that is, mercy, in all your land.

¹⁰And thou shalt hallow the fiftieth year, and thou shalt call it remission, or forgiveness, to all the dwellers of thy land; for that year is the jubilee, that is, the joyful year; a man shall turn again to his possession, and each man shall go again to his first meine,

¹¹for it is the jubilee, and the fiftieth year. Ye shall not sow, neither ye shall reap those things, that come forth freely in the field, and ye shall not gather the first fruits of the vintage,

¹²for the hallowing of the jubilee; but anon ye shall eat things taken away;

¹³in the year of jubilee, all men go again to their possessions.

¹⁴When thou shalt sell anything to thy fellow citizen, either shalt buy of him, make thou not sorry thy brother,

¹⁵but by the number of the years of the jubilee thou shalt buy of him, and by the reckoning of fruits, he shall sell to thee.