Leviticus 25:9

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.

Berean Standard Bible

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Study note

Setting — God instructs Moses and the Israelites to execute a timed auditory proclamation immediately after completing the forty-nine-year count. The command functions as the operational trigger for the fiftieth-year Jubilee legislation.

The words — שׁוֹפַר (sho.Far) denotes a ram’s horn, and תְּרוּעָה (te.ru.'Ah) specifies the loud blast to be blown. הַֽעֲבַרְתָּ (ha.'a.var.Ta) literally means you will cause to pass through, indicating the formal declaration of the appointed time.

The thread — The verse anchors the Jubilee proclamation to the tenth day of the seventh month, a date explicitly named in Leviticus 23:27. Leviticus 25:8 provides the preceding forty-nine-year count, while Leviticus 25:10 immediately follows with the consecration of the fiftieth year.

Why it lands — The text requires precise observance of a sacred calendar to initiate a nationwide economic reset. Readers must recognize that communal liberty in this passage is activated by a specific, timed declaration rather than voluntary initiative.

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The Hebrew words

וְהַֽעֲבַרְתָּ֞ve./ha.'a.var.Taand/ you will cause to pass through שׁוֹפַ֤רsho.Fara ram's horn of תְּרוּעָה֙te.ru.'Ah[the] sound of a loud blast בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁba./Cho.deshin the/ month הַשְּׁבִעִ֔יha./she.vi.'I<the>/ seventh בֶּעָשׂ֖וֹרbe./'a.Soron the/ ten לַחֹ֑דֶשׁla./Cho.deshof the/ month בְּיוֹם֙be./yOmon/ [the] day of הַכִּפֻּרִ֔יםha./ki.pu.Rim<the>/ atonement<s>תַּעֲבִ֥ירוּta.'a.Vi.ruyou will cause to pass שׁוֹפָ֖רsho.Fara ram's horn בְּכָל־be./kholin/ all אַרְצְכֶֽם׃'ar.tze./Khemland/ your

King James Version

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.

Cross-references

Leviticus 23:24 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.
Leviticus 23:27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. You shall hold a sacred assembly and humble yourselves, and present a food offering to the LORD.
Leviticus 16:30 because on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
Leviticus 27:17 If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.
Leviticus 27:24 In the Year of Jubilee the field shall return to the one from whom it was bought—the original owner of the land.
Numbers 10:10 And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
1 Thessalonians 1:8 For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.
Leviticus 16:20 When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to bring forward the live goat.
Leviticus 25:10 So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
Numbers 36:4 And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”