Leviticus 25:1

The LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

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

In Context

2“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:1In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 10:11In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the covenant.

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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