Leviticus 25:17
and you do not oppress one another, and you have been afraid of your God; for I [am] your God YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 20:11And Abraham says, “Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;
Genesis 39:9none is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld from me anything, except you, because you [are] his wife; and how will I do this great evil? Then I have sinned against God.”
Exodus 20:20And Moses says to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to try you, and in order that His fear may be before your faces—that you do not sin.”
Leviticus 19:14You do not revile the deaf; and you do not put a stumbling block before the blind; and you have been afraid of your God; I [am] YHWH.
Leviticus 25:14And when you sell anything to your fellow, or buy from the hand of your fellow, you do not oppress one another;
Leviticus 25:43you do not rule over him with rigor, and you have been afraid of your God.
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 →