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A priest sounds a long silver trumpet on the Day of Atonement after seven groups of seven stones have been counted around a fiftieth stone. Families embrace returning relatives and open property gates throughout the land. Exact 49+1 count, no written number, warfare, forced eviction, chains, blood, or visible deity.
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Leviticus 25:8-10

The Jubilee trumpet and return

Sabbath Years and Jubilee · Leviticus 25

Story guide: A priest sounds a long silver trumpet on the Day of Atonement after seven groups of seven stones have been counted around a fiftieth stone. Families embrace returning relatives and open property gates throughout the land. Exact 49+1 count, no written number, warfare, forced eviction, chains, blood, or visible deity.

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8You shall count for yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years shall be for you forty-nine years.

9Then you shall sound a trumpet blast in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

10And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his property, and each of you shall return to his family.

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