Leviticus 25:8

Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7All things that grow shall be meat to thy beasts and to thy cattle.

9And thou shalt sound the trumpet in the seventh month, the tenth day of the month, in the time of the expiation in all your land.

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Cross References

Leviticus 23:15You shall count therefore from the morrow after the sabbath, wherein you offered the sheaf of the firstfruits, seven full weeks.

Psalms 89:16blessed is the people that knoweth jubilation. They shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance:

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:2-8

The Sabbatical Year. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord . 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 5 That… Read the whole commentary →

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