LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:1 The practice of allowing no
organized farming in the SEVENTH YEAR clearly benefits the soil. It
also recognizes that all produce belongs to God and that he gives it
freely to his people.
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:8 Jubilee was a year of release and
LIBERTY (v. Leviticus 25:10), when people were to RETURN to their
ancestral PROPERTY. Israelites who had sold themselves as servants
were to be released and sent home. This provided a periodic
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:13 The PRICE of PROPERTY must be
calculated in terms of how many YEARS have passed since the jubilee,
since it is not the property itself that is being sold but the amount
of CROPS that can be harvested before the next jubilee. Since all the
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:23 THE LAND is the Lord’s, and the
Israelites are STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS. They are tenants,
essentially.
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:25 If an Israelite is forced to sell
his land, the land can be brought back to the family in one of three
ways: (1) a close relative, called a kinsman-redeemer, buys it; (2)
the one who sold it can buy it back; or (3) it is returned at the
JUBILEE.
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:35 Israelites are to show mercy to
one another because they have received mercy from God.
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:39 A poor Israelite may have sold
himself to a fellow Israelite. His right to return to his house at the
JUBILEE means he has sold just his labor, and not his status as a free
Israelite.
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LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:47 The SOJOURNER is required to keep
the laws of Israel while residing in the land.
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