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Leviticus 25

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Leviticus 25 . 1 , The sabbath of the seventh year; Leviticus 25 . 8 , The jubilee in the fiftieth year; Leviticus 25 . 14 , Of oppression; Leviticus 25 . 18 , A blessing of obedience; Leviticus 25 . 23 , The redemption of land; Leviticus 25 . 29 , Of houses; Leviticus 25 . 35 , Compassion to the poor; Leviticus 25 . 39 , The usage of bondmen; Leviticus 25 . 47 , The redemption of servants.

Leviticus 25:1

Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

Leviticus 25:1 · BSB

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Leviticus 25:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

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Heb. rest

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Leviticus 25:3

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

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Leviticus 25:4

But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.

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Leviticus 25:5

You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

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thy vine undressed Heb. the separation

Leviticus 25:6

Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,

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Leviticus 25:7

and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

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Leviticus 25:8

And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.

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Leviticus 25:9

Then you are to sound the horn far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement. You shall sound it throughout your land.

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Heb. loud of sound

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Leviticus 25:10

So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.

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Leviticus 25:11

The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

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Respecting the literal meaning of the word יובל , yobel , or yovel , critics are not agreed. The most natural derivation of the word seems to be from הוביל , hovil , the Hiphil form of יבל , yaval , to recall , restore , or bring back , because this year restored all slaves to their liberty , and brought back all alienated estates to their primitive owners. Accordingly the LXX render it here בצוףיע , a "remission"; and Josephus says it signifies וכוץטוסיבם , liberty

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Leviticus 25:12

For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.

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Leviticus 25:13

In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

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Leviticus 25:14

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.

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Leviticus 25:15

You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.

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Leviticus 25:16

You shall increase the price in proportion to a greater number of years, or decrease it in proportion to a lesser number of years; for he is selling you a given number of harvests.

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Leviticus 25:17

Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.

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Leviticus 25:18

You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

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Leviticus 25:19

Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.

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Leviticus 25:20

Now you may wonder, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our produce?'

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Leviticus 25:21

But I will send My blessing upon you in the sixth year, so that the land will yield a crop sufficient for three years.

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As it is here graciously promised , that the sixth year was to bring forth fruits for three years , not merely for two , it is evident that both the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee were distinctly provided for. They were not to sow from the sixth to the eighth year , omitting two seed times; nor reap from the sixth to the ninth , omitting two harvests. No legislator , unless conscious of being divinely commissioned , would have committed himself by enacting such a law as this; nor would any people have submitted to receive it , except in consequence of the fullest conviction that a divine authority had dictated it. It therefore stands as a proof that Moses acted by the express direction of the Almighty , and that the people were fully persuaded of the reality of his divine mission by the miracles he wrought

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Leviticus 25:22

While you are sowing in the eighth year, you will be eating from the previous harvest, until the ninth year's harvest comes in.

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Leviticus 25:23

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

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or , to be quite cut off , Heb. for cutting off , for the land

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Leviticus 25:24

Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

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Leviticus 25:25

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

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Leviticus 25:26

Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

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Heb. his hand hath attained , and found sufficiency

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Leviticus 25:27

he shall calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and return to his property.

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Leviticus 25:28

But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.

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Leviticus 25:29

If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

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A very proper difference is here made between houses in a city and houses in the country. The former might be redeemed any time in the course of a year; but after that time could not be redeemed , or go out with the Jubilee the latter might be redeemed at any time; and if not redeemed must go out with the jubilee. The reason in both cases is sufficiently evident; the house in the city might be built merely for the purposes of trade or traffic . the house in the country was builded on , or attached to , the inheritance which God had divided to the respective families. It was therefore necessary that the same law should apply to the house as to the inheritance; which necessity did not exist with regard to the house in the city. And , as the house in the city might be purchased for the purpose of trade , it would be very inconvenient for the purchaser , when his business was established , to be obliged to remove.

Leviticus 25:31

But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.

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Heb. redemption belongeth unto it

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Leviticus 25:32

As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.

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As the Levites had no inheritance in Israel , but only cities to dwell in; and consequently the houses in these cities were all they could call their own , therefore they could not be ultimately alienated

Leviticus 25:33

So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.

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a man purchase of the Levites or , one of the Levites redeem them

Leviticus 25:34

But the open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for this is their permanent possession.

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Leviticus 25:35

Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.

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fallen in decay Heb. his hand faileth

relieve Heb. strengthen

Leviticus 25:36

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

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Leviticus 25:38

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.

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Leviticus 25:39

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

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Heb. serve thyself with him with the service of , etc

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Leviticus 25:40

Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.

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Leviticus 25:41

Then he and his children are to be released, and he may return to his clan and to the property of his fathers.

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Leviticus 25:42

Because the Israelites are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt, they are not to be sold as slaves.

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as bondmen Heb. with the sale of a bondman

Leviticus 25:43

You are not to rule over them harshly, but you shall fear your God.

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Leviticus 25:44

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

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Leviticus 25:45

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.

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Leviticus 25:46

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

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Heb. ye shall serve yourselves with them

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Leviticus 25:47

If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,

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Heb. the hand of a stranger , etc. obtain , etc

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Leviticus 25:48

he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:

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Leviticus 25:49

either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

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Leviticus 25:50

He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.

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This was a very equitable law , both to the sojourner to whom the man was sold , and to the Israelite who had been sold. The Israelite might redeem himself , or one of his kindred might redeem him; but this must not be done to the prejudice of his master. They were therefore to reckon the years he must have served , from that time till the jubilee; and then taking the current wages of a servant , per year , at that time , multiply the remaining years by that sum , and the aggregate was to be given to his master for his redemption. The Jews hold that the kindred of such a person were bound , if in their power , to redeem him , lest he should be swallowed up among the heathen; and we find

  • Nehemiah 5:8 that this was done by the Jews on their return from the Babylonish captivity

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Leviticus 25:51

If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

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Leviticus 25:52

If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.

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jubilee The jubilee was a wonderful institution , and of great service to the religion , freedom , and independence of the Hebrews. It was calculated to prevent the rich from oppressing the poor , and reducing them to perpetual slavery; and to hinder their obtaining possession of all the lands by purchase , mortgage , or usurpation. It was further intended , that debts should not be multiplied too much , lest the poor should be entirely ruined; that slaves should not always continue in servitude; that personal liberty , equality of property , and the regular order of families might , as much as possible , be preserved; and that the people might thus be strongly attached to their country , lands , and inheritances.

Leviticus 25:53

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

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Leviticus 25:54

Even if he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children shall be released in the Year of Jubilee.

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in these years or , by these means

Leviticus 25:55

For the Israelites are My servants. They are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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In the wider web31 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Leviticus 25:35 → Exodus 21:2, Leviticus 25:35 → Exodus 22:25, Leviticus 25:35-43 → Exodus 21:2-6, Leviticus 25:35-43 → Exodus 22:25-27, Numbers 36:1 → Leviticus 25:8, Numbers 36:1-12 → Leviticus 25:8-24, Ruth 4:5-6 → Leviticus 25:23-26, Isaiah 61:1 → Leviticus 25:10, Isaiah 61:2 → Leviticus 25:10, Jeremiah 34:14 → Leviticus 25:10, Jeremiah 34:14 → Leviticus 25:35, Jeremiah 34:14 → Leviticus 25:35-46, Ezekiel 7:12 → Leviticus 25:25, Ezekiel 7:12-13 → Leviticus 25:25-28
Echoes Nehemiah 5:1 → Leviticus 25:42, Nehemiah 5:1 → Leviticus 25:46, Nehemiah 5:11 → Leviticus 25:42, Nehemiah 5:11 → Leviticus 25:46, Nehemiah 5:4 → Leviticus 25:42, Nehemiah 5:4 → Leviticus 25:46, Nehemiah 5:7 → Leviticus 25:42, Nehemiah 5:7 → Leviticus 25:46, Nehemiah 5:8 → Leviticus 25:42, Nehemiah 5:8 → Leviticus 25:46
Trajectories
Boaz (Kinsman-Redeemer), Day of Atonement (Christ's Atoning Sacrifice), Feast of Trumpets (The Final Call), Sabbatical Year (Land Rest and Trust), Year of Jubilee (Ultimate Redemption)
Chiasms
Shaped Leviticus 25:1–22, Leviticus 25:23–55
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