Leviticus 25:10
And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a remission for all the inhabitants of your land: for the same is the Jubilee. A man shall return to his possession, and each one shall go back to his original family,
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Exodus 20:2“I am the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt, out of the house of servitude.
Leviticus 25:26But if he has no near relative, and he himself is able to find the price to redeem it,
Leviticus 25:41And after that, he shall depart with his children, and he shall return to his kindred, to the possession of his fathers.
Leviticus 27:22If a field has been bought, and it is not from the possession of ancestors, it shall be sanctified to the Lord.
Numbers 36:4And so it may be that, when the Jubilee of remission, that is, the fiftieth year, has arrived, the distribution by lots shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall be transferred to others.”
Psalms 146:7Sing before the Lord with confession. Play psalms to our God on a stringed instrument.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:9-23
Institution of the Jubilee; the Year of the Jubilee. ( b. c. 1490.) 8 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. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee 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. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the… Read the whole commentary →