Daily Reading for Saturday, August 5th, 2023

Reading 1, Leviticus 25:1, 8-17

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and said:

⁸ "You will count seven weeks of years -- seven times seven years, that is to say a period of seven weeks of years, forty-nine years.

⁹ And on the tenth day of the seventh month you will sound the trumpet; on the Day of Expiation you will sound the trumpet throughout the land.

¹⁰ You will declare this fiftieth year to be sacred and proclaim the liberation of all the country's inhabitants. You will keep this as a jubilee: each of you will return to his ancestral property, each to his own clan.

¹¹ This fiftieth year will be a jubilee year for you; in it you will not sow, you will not harvest the grain that has come up on its own or in it gather grapes from your untrimmed vine.

¹² The jubilee will be a holy thing for you; during it you will eat whatever the fields produce.

¹³ "In this year of jubilee, each of you will return to his ancestral property.

¹⁴ If you buy land from, or sell land to, your fellow-countryman, neither of you may exploit the other.

¹⁵ In buying from your fellow-countryman, you will take account of the number of years since the jubilee; the sale-price he fixes for you will depend on the number of productive years still to run.

¹⁶ The greater the number of years, the higher the price you will ask for it; the fewer the number of years, the greater the reduction; for what he is selling you is a certain number of harvests.

¹⁷ So you will not exploit one another, but fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 67:2-3, 5, 7-8

² Then the earth will acknowledge your ways, and all nations your power to save.

³ Let the nations praise you, God, let all the nations praise you.

⁵ Let the nations praise you, God, let all the nations praise you.

⁷ May God continue to bless us, and be revered by the whole wide world.