Leviticus 25:14
‘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:
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
13‘In that Year of Celebration, everyone must return to their own property.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:13‘Do not cheat anyone or steal from anyone. ‘If you have agreed to pay your workers at the end of the day, do what you have promised; do not keep those wages until the next day.
Deuteronomy 16:19They must not judge unjustly. They must not favor one person more than another. The judges must not accept bribes, because if a judge accepts a bribe, even if he is wise and honest, it will be very difficult for him to judge fairly [IDM]; he will do what the person who gave him the bribe wants him to do and declare that the righteous/innocent people must be punished.
1 Samuel 12:3Now tell me, while Yahweh is listening, and while the king whom he has chosen is listening: whose ox or donkey have I stolen during all those years? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed/treated badly? From whom have I accepted a bribe, in order that I would ignore the evil things he had done? If I have done any of those things, tell me, and I will pay back what I owe.”
Nehemiah 9:36“So now we are like slaves here in this land that you gave to our ancestors, the land that you gave to them in order that they could enjoy all the good things that grow here.
Psalms 10:18You show that orphans and oppressed people have not done things that are wrong, with the result that human beings will not cause people to be terrified any more.
Proverbs 21:13There are people who refuse to listen when poor people cry out for help; but some day they themselves will cry out for help, and no one will hear them.
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 →