Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year, blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land.
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- WEB Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.
- NKJV Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
- NASB You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.
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The Jubilee was announced by a loud trumpet on the Day of Atonement. Liberty was proclaimed on the day of national cleansing.
Overview
The Jubilee began with the trumpet blast on the Day of Atonement, tying freedom and restoration to the day Israel's sins were covered. This deliberate timing linked release from debt and bondage to reconciliation with God. It beautifully foreshadows the gospel, where forgiveness through atonement brings true liberty (Luke 4:18-19).
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- Lev 23:24“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
- Lev 23:27“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Lev 16:30for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before Yahweh.
- Lev 27:24In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
- Lev 27:17If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.
- Num 10:10“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”
- 1 Th 1:8For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out; so that we need not to say anything.
- Lev 16:20“When he has finished atoning for the Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
- Lev 25:10–12You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- Rom 10:18But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
- Acts 13:38–39Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
- Rom 15:19in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
- Ps 89:15Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.
- Num 36:4When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
- 2 Cor 5:19–21namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
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