The Year of Jubilee

Leviticus 25

8 "You shall count seven weeks 1 of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall sound a the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. b On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and c proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of d you shall return to his clan. 11 That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it e you shall neither sow nor reap y what grows of itself nor gather the grapes from the undressed vines. 12 For it is a jubilee. It shall be holy to you. f You may eat the produce of the field. 2

13 d "In this year of jubilee each of you shall return to his property. 14 And if you make a sale to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor, g you shall not wrong one another. 15 h You shall pay your neighbor according to the number of years after the jubilee, and he shall sell to you according to the number of years for crops. 16 If the years are many, you shall increase the price, and if the years are few, you shall reduce the price, for it is the number of the crops that he is selling to you. 17 i You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God, for I am the Lord your God.

18 j "Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then k you will dwell in the land securely. 19 l The land will yield its fruit, and m you will eat your fill k and dwell in it securely. 20 And if you say, n 'What shall we eat in the seventh year, if o we may not sow or gather in our crop?' 21 I will p command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. 22 q When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of r the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 23:24
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
    Isaiah 27:13
    And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
  2. Cross References
    Leviticus 23:24
    Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.
    Leviticus 23:27
    Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 61:1
    The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because ...
    Jeremiah 34:8
    The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, a...
    Jeremiah 34:13
    Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I myself...
    Jeremiah 34:15
    You recently repented and did what was right in...
    Jeremiah 34:17
    Therefore, thus says the Lord : You have not ob...
    Ezekiel 46:17
    But if he makes a gift out of his inheritance t...
    Isaiah 61:2
    To proclaim the year of the Lord 's favor, and ...
    Isaiah 63:4
    For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and m...
    Luke 4:19
    To proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
  4. Cross References
    Leviticus 27:24
    In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him from whom it was bought, to whom the land belongs as a possession.
    Numbers 36:4
    And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
  5. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:4 - 5
    But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
  6. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:5
    You shall not reap what grows of itself in your harvest, or gather the grapes of your undressed vine. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
  7. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:6 - 7
    The Sabbath of the land shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves and for your hired servant and the sojourner who lives with you.
  8. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:10
    And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.
  9. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:33
    When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.
  10. Cross References
    Leviticus 27:18
    But if he dedicates his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the price according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and a deduction shall be made from the valuation.
    Leviticus 27:23
    Then the priest shall calculate the amount of the valuation for it up to the year of jubilee, and the man shall give the valuation on that day as a holy gift to the Lord.
  11. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:36
    Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you.
    Leviticus 25:43
    You shall not rule over him ruthlessly but shall fear your God.
    Leviticus 19:14
    You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
    Leviticus 19:32
    You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
  12. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:4 - 5
    You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.
  13. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:5 - 6
    Your threshing shall last to the time of the gr...
    Deuteronomy 12:10
    But when you go over the Jordan and live in the...
    Proverbs 1:33
    But whoever listens to me will dwell secure and...
    Jeremiah 23:6
    In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel wil...
    Ezekiel 34:25
    I will make with them a covenant of peace and b...
    Ezekiel 34:28
    They shall no more be a prey to the nations, no...
  14. Cross References
    Psalms 85:12
    Yes, the Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
    Ezekiel 34:26 - 27
    And I will make them and the places all around my hill a blessing, and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
  15. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:5
    Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
    Deuteronomy 11:15
    And he will give grass in your fields for your livestock, and you shall eat and be full.
    Joel 2:19
    The Lord answered and said to his people, "Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
    Joel 2:26
    You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
  16. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:18
    Therefore you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and perform them, and then you will dwell in the land securely.
  17. Cross References
    Matthew 6:25
    Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
    Matthew 6:31
    Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?
    Luke 12:22
    And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.
    Luke 12:29
    And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried.
  18. Cross References
    Leviticus 25:4 - 5
    But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
  19. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:8
    The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
  20. Cross References
    2 Kings 19:29
    And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
  21. Cross References
    Leviticus 26:10
    You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall clear out the old to make way for the new.
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