KJV King James Version
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.
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Leviticus 25:11
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
WEB World English Bible
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
ASV American Standard Version
A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
A jubilee it is, the fiftieth year, a year it is to you; ye sow not, nor reap its spontaneous growth, nor gather its separated things;
Surrounding context — Leviticus 25
8 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.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all] the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of thy vine undressed.
12 For it [is] the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
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יוֹבֵ֣לH3104 · yo.veljubilee/hornהִ֗ואH1931 · huhe/she/itשְׁנַ֛תH8141 · sha.nehyearהַחֲמִשִּׁ֥יםH2572 · cha.mish.shimfiftyשָׁנָ֖הH8141 · sha.nehyearתִּהְיֶ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָכֶ֑םH9036 · khemyouלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotתִזְרָ֔עוּH2232 · za.rato sowוְלֹ֤אH3808 · lonotתִקְצְרוּ֙H7114 · qa.tserbe shortאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]סְפִיחֶ֔יהָH5599 · sa.phi.achoutpouringוְלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotתִבְצְר֖וּH1219 · ba.tsarto gather/restrain/fortifyאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]נְזִרֶֽיהָ׃H5139 · na.zirNazirite
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