Leviticus 25:17

and ye do not oppress one another, and thou hast been afraid of thy God; for I [am] Jehovah your God.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16according to the multitude of the years thou dost multiply its price, and according to the fewness of the years thou dost diminish its price; for a number of increases he is selling to thee;

18'And ye have done My statutes, and My judgments ye keep, and have done them, and ye have dwelt on the land confidently,

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Cross References

Genesis 20:11And Abraham saith, 'Because I said, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

Genesis 39:9none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou [art] his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? — then have I sinned against God.'

Exodus 20:20And Moses saith unto the people, 'Fear not, for to try you hath God come, and in order that His fear may be before your faces — that ye sin not.'

Leviticus 19:14'Thou dost not revile the deaf; and before the blind thou dost not put a stumbling block; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; I [am] Jehovah.

Leviticus 25:14'And when thou sellest anything to thy fellow, or buyest from the hand of thy fellow, ye do not oppress one another;

Leviticus 25:43thou rulest not over him with rigour, and thou hast been afraid of thy 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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