Leviticus 25:10
And thou shalt sanctify the fiftieth year, and shalt proclaim remission to all the inhabitants of thy land: for it is the year of jubilee. Every man shall return to his possession, and every one shall go back to his former family:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 20:2I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Leviticus 25:26But if he have no kinsman, and he himself can find the price to redeem it:
Leviticus 25:41And afterwards he shall go out with his children, and shall return to his kindred and to the possession of his fathers,
Leviticus 27:22If a field that was bought, and not of a man's ancestors' possession, be sanctified to the Lord,
Numbers 36:4And so it shall come to pass, that when the jubilee, that is, the fiftieth year of remission, is come, the distribution made by the lots shall be confounded, and the possession of the one shall pass to the others.
Psalms 146:7They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and shall rejoice in thy justice.
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 →