Leviticus 25:1
And the Lord said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
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In The King James Version
And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 19:1In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai.
Numbers 10:11Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:1
The law of this chapter concerns the lands and estates of the Israelites in Canaan, the occupying and transferring of which were to be under the divine direction, as well as the management of religious worship; for, as the tabernacle was a holy house, so Canaan was a holy land; and upon that account, as much as any thing, it was the glory of all lands. In token of a peculiar title which God had to this land, and a right to dispose of it, he appointed, I. That every seventh year should be a year of rest from… Read the whole commentary →