8 Count off seven rest years, so seven times seven which is forty-nine years, 9 then after that, sound loud horn blasts on the 10th of the seventh month to announce throughout the land that it’s the day for making things right with Yahweh. 10 Then you all must declare that fiftieth year to be sacred. It’ll be a restoration celebration year when you announce freedom for all the inhabitants of the country—everyone can be free to return to their families, and all families can be free to return to their originally inherited land. 11 That fiftieth year will be a restoration celebration year. You all mustn’t plant crops and don’t systematically harvest the self-sown crops or the grapes from the untrimmed vines, 12 because it’s a restoration celebration year. You all must treat it as sacred and just eat what you take directly from the countryside.

13 In that restoration celebration year, you all should return to your inherited land. 14 In the other years when you buy or sell from your fellow citizens, you mustn’t cheat them 15 because the value of the land will depend on the number of years after the restoration celebration year, i.e., you must take into account the number of years of produce—16 if there’s many years to go, the price will increase, and if the next rest year is close, the price will decrease because you’re selling the number of crops. 17 So don’t cheat eat other—you must respect and obey your god, because I am your god Yahweh.

18 You all must follow all my instructions and maintain my values—keeping them so that you’ll be able to live securely on the land. 19 The land will yield its crops and you’ll all have plenty to eat, and you’ll be able to live there securely.

20 But if you all wonder what you’ll eat in that seventh year when you’ll neither plant crops or do organised harvests, 21 well I’ll send my blessing to you all in the sixth year, and it’ll produce enough for three years 22 so you all can still eat that stored food while you plant crops in the eighth year to feed you all through the ninth year.