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"And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof…"

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Leviticus 25:10; famous statement of the Jubilee year, inscribed on the Liberty Bell. Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) notes: "In a letter written by a committee of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, 1 Nov., 1751, ordering a bell for the tower of the new State House, it was directed that this quotation from the Bible should be inscribed around it 'well-shaped in large letters.'" The Home Book of Quotations, 10th ed., ed. Burton Stevenson, p. 1104–5 (1967). The bell was o

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Leviticus 25:10; famous statement of the Jubilee year, inscribed on the Liberty Bell. Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) notes: "In a letter written by a committee of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, 1 Nov., 1751, ordering a bell for the tower of the new State House, it was directed that this quotation from the Bible should be inscribed around it 'well-shaped in large letters.'" The Home Book of Quotations, 10th ed., ed. Burton Stevenson, p. 1104–5 (1967). The bell was o