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
So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.
In the jubilee year the field will return to the one from whom he bought it, the one to whom it belongs as landed property.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Release of hebrew servants
He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the year of jubilee, but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the jubilee year, he and his children with him,
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Redemption of sold property
The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me. In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land. "'If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold. read more.
If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption, he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption, he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » The fruits of the earth to be common property
Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you -- you may eat its produce from the field.
Feast of jubilee » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Remission of debts
We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.
At the end of every seven years you must declare a cancellation of debts. This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as "the Lord's cancellation of debts." You may exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Release of all hebrew servants
"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year he will go out free without paying anything.
If your fellow Hebrew -- whether male or female -- is sold to you and serves you for six years, then in the seventh year you must let that servant go free.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » The fruits of the earth to be common property
But in the seventh year you must let it lie fallow and leave it alone so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave any animal in the field may eat; you must do likewise with your vineyard and your olive grove.
You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat -- you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you, your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land -- all its produce will be for you to eat.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Public reading of the law at feast of tabernacles
He commanded them: "At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts, at the Feast of Temporary Shelters, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God in the place he chooses, you must read this law before them within their hearing. Gather the people -- men, women, and children, as well as the resident foreigners in your villages -- so they may hear and thus learn about and fear the Lord your God and carefully obey all the words of this law. read more.
Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."
Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the Lord your God for 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 exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.
Feast of sabbatical year » Enactments respecting » Cessation » Labor
but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest -- a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard. You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest.