Thematic Bible: Year


Thematic Bible



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

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. Verse ConceptsSabbatical YearAgricultureRestFarmingoverworking


Then he gave these orders: "At the end of seven years, the year designated for release, during the Festival of Tents, Verse ConceptsCreditSabbatical YearPeople Forgiving OthersDebt

"At the end of seven years, each of you is to set free your fellow Hebrew who has sold himself to you and has served you for six years. You are to send him out from you with no further obligation." But your ancestors didn't obey me or pay attention. Verse ConceptsListeningSabbatical YearYearsCancellation Of DeptSix YearsSeven YearsPeople Freeing Slavesfreeliberation

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

But if he gives a gift to any of his servants, it is to belong to the servant until the Year of Release, at which time it is to be returned to the Regent Prince. His inheritance is to belong only to his sons. Verse ConceptsCancellation Of DeptPeople Possessing Other ThingsReversion Of Thingslegacy

Then, when the Jubilee Year of the Israelis comes, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they have come to belong. Their inheritance will thus be taken away from the inheritance of our father's tribe!" Verse ConceptsYear Of Jubilee

If he's not able to redeem it back for himself, then what he sold is to remain in the hand of the buyer until the year of jubilee. In the jubilee, it is to be returned so he may return to his property. Verse ConceptsYearsReversion Of Things

If he consecrates his field in the year of jubilee, it is to be based on your valuation.

"This month will mark the beginning of months for you. It will be the first month of the year for you. Verse ConceptsBeginningMonthNew Year, TheYearsCalendarsMonth 1Beginning Of PeriodsMonthsa new beginningPutting God FirstNew BeginningsFamily FirstA New Day

At the beginning of the month, during your time of rejoicing at the appointed place, sound the trumpet over your burnt offering, then sacrifice your peace offering, since they are to be your memorial before the LORD your God. I am the LORD your God." Verse ConceptsJoy, Of IsraelMemorialNew Moon FestivalTrumpetAnimal Sacrifices, BurntAnimal Sacrifices, Peace OfferingTrumpets For CelebrationThe Lord Is GodFestivals ObservedRegulating Sacrifices

"On the first day of each month, you are to offer a burnt offering to the LORD consisting of two young bulls, one ram, and seven one year old lambs, all of them without any defects, Verse ConceptsNew Moon FestivalRamsSeven AnimalsTwo AnimalsAnimals At Specific AgesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And GoatsMonths

Don't forget this fact, dear friends: With the Lord a single day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a single day. Verse ConceptsThe Final Days Of Timeeternity, nature ofGod, The EternalYearsOne Day1000 Years And MoreThe Fact Of That DayAges Of TimeDaysIgnorance of GodGod's TimingGods Timing

One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch. Verse ConceptsThe Final Days Of Timeeternity, nature ofGod, The EternalYears1000 Years And MoreDaysThe Pastpast

"If a person sells a residential house in a walled city, he is to redeem it within the year in which it was sold. He may have right to its redemption for a full year. But if it's not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house next to which is a wall is to belong in perpetuity to the one who bought it throughout his generations. It is not to be returned in the jubilee.


He captured the dragon, that ancient serpent, also known as the Devil and Satan, and tied him up for a thousand years. He threw him into the bottomless pit, locked it, and sealed it over him to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were over. After that, he must be set free for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and those who sat on them were given authority to judge. I also saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshipped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. They came back to life and ruled with the Messiah for a thousand years.


"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth." Verse ConceptsAge, Span Of LifePhysical LifePilgrimagePilgrims, Examples OfFamily Problems

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.

Be careful not to think this wicked thought to yourselves: "The seventh year, the year of remission, is drawing near,' and you show ill will toward your poor relative and not give to him. He may then call to the LORD on account of you, and you will be guilty of sin. Verse ConceptsSabbatical YearThoughtYearsCancellation Of DeptDo Not Be StingyPeople Forgiving OthersPeople Without MercyHelping The Poor

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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