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Leviticus 25:17

You must not cheat or wrong one another; instead, you must honor your God, for I am Yahweh your God.

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Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

In Context

16A larger number of years until the next Jubilee will increase the value of land, and a smaller number of years until the next Jubilee will decrease the value, because the number of harvests the land will produce for the new owner is related to the number of years before the next Jubilee.

18Therefore you must obey my decrees, keep my laws, and carry them out. Then you will live in the land in safety.

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Cross References

Genesis 20:11Abraham said, “Because I thought, 'Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'

Genesis 39:9No one is greater in this house than I am. He has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”

Exodus 20:20Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, for God has come to test you so that the honor of him may be in you, and so that you do not sin.”

Leviticus 19:14Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind. Instead, you must fear your God. I am Yahweh.

Leviticus 25:14If you sell any land to your neighbor or buy any land from your neighbor, you must not cheat or wrong each other.

Leviticus 25:43You must not rule over them harshly, but you must honor 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 →

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