Thematic Bible: Enactments respecting
Thematic Bible
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Public reading of the law at feast of tabernacles
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Restoration of all inheritances
In this way you will set the fiftieth year apart and proclaim freedom to all the inhabitants of the land. During this year all property that has been sold must be restored to the original owner or the descendants, and any who have been sold as slaves may return to their families.
In the jubilee year the field will go back to the person from whom it was bought, to whom it belongs as family property.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Release of hebrew servants
He will be like a hired worker or a visitor to you. He may work with you until the year of jubilee. Then you will release him and his children to go back to their family and the property of their ancestors.
If he cannot buy his freedom he and his children will be released in the year of jubilee.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Redemption of sold property
No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while. When property is sold, the original owner must be given the first chance to buy it. If any of you Israelites become so poor that you are forced to sell your property, your closest relative must buy it back. read more.
If that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it, you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again.
If that relative has the money. Later, if you can afford to buy it, you must pay enough to make up for what the present owner will lose on it before the next Year of Celebration, when the property would become yours again.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » The fruits of the earth to be common property
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
That fiftieth year will be your jubilee year. Do not plant or harvest what grows by itself or pick grapes from the vines in the land.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Remission of debts
If the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. In the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.
Release all debts at the end of every seven years. This is how you should release. Every man who has a loan to his neighbor shall release it. He shall not require it from his neighbor, or from his brother, because it is called Jehovah's release. You may collect from a foreigner, but your hand should release that debt which is yours with your brother.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Release of all hebrew servants
When you buy a Hebrew slave he will be your slave for six years. In the seventh year he may leave as a free man without paying for his freedom.
If you buy Israelites (your own brothers) as slaves, you must set them free after six years.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » The fruits of the earth to be common property
Let your land rest the seventh year. Do not harvest anything that grows on it. The poor may eat what grows there. The wild animals may have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees.
Even though the land has not been cultivated during that year, it will provide food for you, your slaves, your hired men, the foreigners living with you, your domestic animals, and the wild animals in your fields. Everything that it produces may be eaten.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Public reading of the law at feast of tabernacles
Moses commanded them: At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of remission of debts, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before Jehovah your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this Law in front of all Israel in their hearing. Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town. Assemble them that they may hear and learn and respect Jehovah your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this Law. read more.
Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to respect Jehovah your God, as long as you live on the land you will possess when you cross the Jordan River.
Their children, who have not known, will hear and learn to respect Jehovah your God, as long as you live on the land you will possess when you cross the Jordan River.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » No release to strangers during
You may collect from a foreigner, but your hand should release that debt which is yours with your brother.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
But the seventh year is to be a sabbath year of complete rest for the land. It is a year dedicated to Jehovah. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards. Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without being planted. Do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. It is a year of complete rest for the land.