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Leviticus 25:9 Explained in Context

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Verse 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.

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This verse sounds the Jubilee trumpet throughout the land on the Day of Atonement.

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  • Leviticus 25:8-17

Track the movement across 25:8-17. When Leviticus 25:9 sounds the Jubilee trumpet throughout the land on the Day of Atonement, it contributes to this complete claim: Seven sabbatical cycles lead to a fiftieth-year trumpet, return to property and family, fallow, and sale prices scaled to remaining harvest years under the command not to oppress.

Why It Needs Context

Leviticus 25:9 sounds the Jubilee trumpet throughout the land on the Day of Atonement; reading it alone would sever that detail from the actors, category, and outcome in Leviticus 25:8-17.

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Read Leviticus 25:8-17 — Jubilee proclaims liberty, return, and price limits
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King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

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Exact location: Leviticus 25:8-17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus

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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lev.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 25:8-17

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