August 2nd, 2025, Saturday of the 17th week in ordinary time.

A reading from the book of Leviticus.

The Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

7 weeks of years shall you count, 7 times 7 years, so that the 7 cycles amount to 49 years. Then, on the tenth day of the

seventh month, let the trumpet resound. On this, the day of atonement, the trumpet blast shall re-echo

throughout your land. This fiftieth year you shall make sacred by proclaiming liberty in the land for all its inhabitants.

It shall be a jubilee for you, when every one of you shall return to his own property,

everyone to his own family estate.

In this fiftieth year, your year of jubilee, you shall not sow, nor shall you reap the aftergrowth or pick

the grapes from the untrimmed vines.

Since this is the Jubilee, which shall be sacred for you, you may not eat of its produce

except as taken directly from the field.

In this year of Jubilee then, every one of you shall return to his own property.

Therefore, when you sell any land to your neighbor, or buy any from him, do not deal unfairly.

On the basis of the number of years since the last Jubilee shall you purchase the land from your neighbor.

And so also, on the basis of the number of years for crops,

shall he sell it to you.

When the years are many, the price shall be so much the more.

When the years are few, the price shall be so much the less.

For it is really the number of crops that he sells you.

Do not deal unfairly, then, but stand in fear of your God.

I the Lord am your God.

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