Thematic Bible: Enactments respecting
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Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Public reading of the law at feast of tabernacles
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Restoration of all inheritances
You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.
In the Year of Jubilee the field will return to the one he bought it from, the original owner.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Release of hebrew servants
Let him stay with you as a hired hand or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee. Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.
If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released at the Year of Jubilee.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Redemption of sold property
"The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land. You are to allow the redemption of any land you occupy. If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold. read more.
If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land, he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.
If a man has no family redeemer, but he prospers and obtains enough to redeem his land, he may calculate the years since its sale, repay the balance to the man he sold it to, and return to his property.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » The fruits of the earth to be common property
It is to be holy to you because it is the Jubilee; you may only eat its produce directly from the field.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Remission of debts
When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt.
"At the end of [every] seven years you must cancel debts. This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect [anything] from his neighbor or brother, because the Lord's release of debts has been proclaimed. You may collect [something] from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Release of all hebrew servants
“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.
“If your fellow Hebrew, a man or woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, you must set him free in the seventh year.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » The fruits of the earth to be common property
But during the seventh year you are to let it rest and leave it uncultivated, so that the poor among your people may eat from it and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.
[Whatever] the land [produces during] the Sabbath year can be food for you; for yourself, your male or female slave, and the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you. All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.
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 appointed time in the year of debt cancellation, during the Festival of Booths, when all Israel assembles in the presence of the Lord your God at the place He chooses, you are to read this law aloud before all Israel. Gather the people-men, women, children, and foreigners living within your gates-so that they may listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and be careful to follow all the words of this law. read more.
Then their children who do not know [the law] will listen and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
Then their children who do not know [the law] will listen and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » No release to strangers during
You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
But there will be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land in the seventh year, a Sabbath to the Lord: you are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard. You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.