Leviticus 25:13

‘In that Year of Celebration, everyone must return to their own property.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

In Context

12It will be a Year of Celebration, so eat only what grows in the fields ◄by itself/without any work being done to produce anything►.

14‘If you sell some of your land to a fellow Israeli or if you buy some land from one of them, you must treat that person fairly:

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:10Set apart that year, and proclaim that throughout the country, it will be a year of restoring the land and freeing people: All the people who sold their property will receive back the property that they previously owned, and slaves must be ◄freed/allowed to return to their property and their families►.

Leviticus 27:17If he dedicates the land during the Year of Celebration, its full value will be that amount.

Isaiah 61:2He has sent me to tell those who mourn about the members of their families who died (OR, who are still in Babylonia) that now is the time when Yahweh will act kindly toward his people; now is the time when our God will ◄get revenge on/punish► their enemies.

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 →

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