||This article includes a list of references, related reading or
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inline citations. (November 2010)| In Judaism and Christianity,
the concept of the Jubilee is a special year of remission of
sins and universal pardon. In the Biblical Book of Leviticus, a
Jubilee year is mentioned to occur every fiftieth year, in which
slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and
the mercies of God would be particularly manifest. In the Holy
Bible, Leviticus 25:8-13 states,  "And thou shalt number seven
sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the
space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty
and nine years. 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. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be a