Leviticus 23:16

23:16 You must count fifty days – until the day after the seventh Sabbath – and then ¹  you must present a new grain offering to the Lord.

Leviticus 25:11

25:11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. ² 

Leviticus 27:3

27:3 the conversion value of the male ³  from twenty years old up to sixty years old ⁴  is fifty shekels by the standard of the sanctuary shekel. ⁵ 

Leviticus 27:16

Redemption of Vowed Fields

27:16 “‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, ⁶  a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver. ⁷ 

Leviticus 25:10

25:10 So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, ⁸  and you must proclaim a release ⁹  in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; ¹⁰  each one of you must return ¹¹  to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

[23:16]  ¹ tn Heb “and.” In the translation “then” is supplied to clarify the sequence.

[25:11]  ² tn Heb “you shall not sow and you shall not…and you shall not….”

[27:3]  ³ tn Heb “your conversion value shall be [for] the male.”

[27:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “from a son of twenty years and until a son of sixty years.”

[27:3]  ⁵ tn See the note on Lev 5:15.

[27:16]  ⁴ tn Heb “a conversion value shall be to the mouth of its seed.”

[27:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “seed of a homer of barley in fifty shekels of silver.”

[25:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “the year of the fifty years,” or perhaps “the year, fifty years” (GKC 435 §134.o, note 2).

[25:10]  ⁶ tn Cf. KJV, ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV “liberty”; TEV, CEV “freedom.” The characteristics of this “release” are detailed in the following verses. For substantial summaries and bibliography on the biblical and ancient Near Eastern material regarding such a “release” see J. E. Hartley, Leviticus (WBC), 427-34, and B. A. Levine, Leviticus (JPSTC), 270-74.

[25:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “A jubilee that shall be to you.” Although there has been some significant debate about the original meaning of the Hebrew word translated “jubilee” (יוֹבֵל, yovel; see the summary in J. E. Hartley, Leviticus [WBC], 434), the term most likely means “ram” and can refer also to a “ram’s horn.” The fiftieth year would, therefore, be called the “jubilee” because of the associated sounding of the “ram’s horn” (see B. A. Levine, Leviticus [JPSTC], 172, and the literature cited there).

[25:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “you [plural] shall return, a man.”