Leviticus 25:10
You are to dedicate the fiftieth year and announce freedom everywhere in the country for all who live there. This is to be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to reclaim your property and to be part of your family once more.
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Exodus 20:2“I am the Lord your God, who led you out of Egypt, out of the land of your slavery.
Leviticus 25:26However, if they don't have anyone who can buy it back, but in the meantime their financial situation improves and they have enough to buy back the land,
Leviticus 25:41Then they and their children must be freed, and they can go back to their family and to their family's property.
Leviticus 27:22If you dedicate to the Lord a field you've bought that was not part of your original property,
Numbers 36:4So when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes around, their allocation would be added to the tribe into which they marry, and taken away from our fathers' tribe.”
Psalms 146:7He makes sure the oppressed receive justice. He gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free.
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 →