Thematic Bible: Enactments respecting


Thematic Bible



Set aside and consecrate the fiftieth year to declare liberty throughout the land for all of its inhabitants. It is to be a jubilee for you. Every person is to return to his own land that he has inherited. Likewise, every person is to return to his tribe. Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In Otethics, personalClansCivil LibertyHolidayProclaimingReversion Of ThingsFreedom

"During this year of jubilee, each person is to return to his own land that he has inherited. Verse ConceptsYearsYear Of JubileeReversion Of Things

During the year of jubilee, the field is to be returned by the one who originally sold it that is, to the owner of the land. Verse ConceptsYear Of JubileeReversion Of Things

Instead, he is to serve with you like a hired servant or a traveler who lives with you, until the year of jubilee. Then he and his children with him may leave to return to his family and his ancestor's inheritance.

If he isn't redeemed by these, then he is to be set free in the year of jubilee he and his children with him Verse ConceptsYearsPeople Freeing Slaves

"The land is not to be sold with any finality, because the land belongs to me. You're sojourners and travelers with me. So throughout all of your land inheritance, grant the right of redemption for the land. "If your brother becomes so poor that he has to a sell portion of his inheritance, then his nearest kinsman redeemer is to come and redeem what his brother has sold. read more.
If a person doesn't have a kinsman redeemer, but has become rich and found sufficient means for his redemption, then let him account for the years for which it was sold, return the excess to the person to whom it was sold, and then return to his property.

because it's the jubilee it's sacred for you. But you may eat its produce from the field. Verse ConceptsHoly Times

The fiftieth year is to be a year of jubilee for you. You are not to sow or harvest the spilled kernels that grow of themselves or pick grapes from the untrimmed vines Verse ConceptsLaws About AgricultureReaping What You Sow

As for the people of the land who bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. We will forego planting crops, and we will cancel debts during every seventh year." Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingCreditRespect, For EnvironmentSabbatical YearSabbath, In OtTradeYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptCancelling DebtsSabbath ObservedDebt

"You must cancel your debts at the end of every seventh year. This is the way to conduct remission: every creditor must cancel the loan that his friend borrowed, and he must not pressure his friend or brother to repay it, because remission to the LORD will be proclaimed. You may exact payment from a foreigner, but cancel whatever your brother owes you.

"When you acquire a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go out a free man without paying anything. Verse Conceptsethics, personalBuying and sellingPunishment, Nature OfSlavery, In OtYearsDebtorsCancellation Of DeptSix YearsPeople Freeing SlavesThe Law On SlaveryFree Of ChargeslaveryFreedomservanthood

"When a fellow Hebrew male or female slave is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you are to set them free. Verse ConceptsHolidaySabbatical YearSlavery, In OtYearsSix YearsPeople Freeing SlavesThe Law On Slavery

but you are to let it rest the seventh year, leaving it unplanted. The poor of your people may eat from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. You are to do the same with your vineyards and olive groves. Verse Conceptsethics, socialLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Remedies ForVineyardOrchardsUnusedAgricultureRestFarming

You may take the Sabbath produce of the land for your food you, your male and maid servants, your hired laborers, and the resident alien with you. The cattle and the wild animals in your land everything it produces are for your food.

Then he gave these orders: "At the end of seven years, the year designated for release, during the Festival of Tents, when all of Israel comes to appear in the presence of the LORD your God at the place that he'll choose, read this Law aloud to them. Gather the people the men, women, children, and the foreigners that live in your cities so they may hear and fear the LORD your God, and so they may be careful to obey the words contained in this Law. read more.
Their children who don't know will hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan River to possess."

You may exact payment from a foreigner, but cancel whatever your brother owes you. Verse ConceptsForeignersLaws Restricting ForeignersDebt

But the seventh year is to be a Sabbath of rest for the land a Sabbath for the LORD. You are not to plant your field or prune your vineyard. You are not to gather what grows from the spilled kernels of your crops. You are not to pick the grapes of your untrimmed vines. Let it be a year of Sabbath for the land.

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