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The Hebrew version of Leviticus set apart the fiftieth year for release, calling it the Jubilee after the ram’s horn that announced it. The Greek Septuagint translation drops the reference to a horn and names it a year of remission.
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Leviticus 25:10
Hebrew Bible
9 You must sound loud horn blasts—in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement—you must sound the horn in your entire land. 10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your Jubilee; each one of you must return to his property, and each one of you must return to his clan. 11 That fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.
LXX Leviticus 25:10
Septuagint
9 And you will proclaim with the sound of a trumpet throughout your whole land in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement; you will signal with a trumpet throughout your whole land. 10 And sanctify the year, the fiftieth year, and loudly proclaim a time of release for the land to all those inhabiting it; this signala will be a year of remission for you, and each person will go out to his possession, and each one shall go to his country. 11 This is a signal of remission, the fiftieth year, this year will be to you. You will not sow or reap the spontaneous produce springing up of itself, and you will not gather up its sacred gifts.
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Notes and References
"... Verses 10-13, by inclusio and overspecification, stress that the year of the land's release, the 50th year, functions as a signal (√σημασία versus Hebrew יובל 'ram's horn, jubilee') for each patriarch and his family (verses 12, 46) to return to their original possession. ..."
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