Leviticus 25:14
If you sell land to your neighbor, or buy land from him, don't exploit one another.
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13In this Jubilee Year, every one of you shall return to your own property.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:13Don't cheat others or rob them. Don't refuse to pay wages due to workers until the morning.
Deuteronomy 16:19Don't pervert justice or show favoritism. Don't take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the wise and twists the words of the truthful.
1 Samuel 12:3I stand here before you. Bring any charges you have against me in the presence of the Lord and of his anointed one. Have I taken anyone's ox or donkey? Have I wronged anyone? Have I oppressed anyone? Have I accepted a bribe from anyone to turn a blind eye? Tell me, and I will repay you.”
Nehemiah 9:36Look at us now, slaves in the land you gave our forefathers to enjoy its fruit and all its good things. Look at us slaves here!
Psalms 10:18You will defend the rights of orphans and the oppressed so that those who are mere human beings here on earth will never terrorize them again.
Proverbs 21:13If you refuse to hear the cries of the poor, your cries won't be heard either.
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 →