Leviticus 25:1

And the Lord spake with Mosheh in the mountain of Sinai, saying:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

In Context

2Speak with the children of Israel, and say to them: When you have entered into the land that I will give you, the land shall have rest by an intermission (shemet shemittha) before the Lord.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:1In the third month of the outgoing of the sons of Israel from the land of Mizraim, on that day came they to the desert of Sinai.

Numbers 10:11And it was in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the Cloud was uplifted from above the Tabernacle of the Testimony,

Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:1

The law of this chapter concerns the lands and estates of the Israelites in Canaan, the occupying and transferring of which were to be under the divine direction, as well as the management of religious worship; for, as the tabernacle was a holy house, so Canaan was a holy land; and upon that account, as much as any thing, it was the glory of all lands. In token of a peculiar title which God had to this land, and a right to dispose of it, he appointed, I. That every seventh year should be a year of rest from… Read the whole commentary →

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