VW-Edition Bible (2010)

1And Jehovah spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, 2Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you come into the land which I am giving you, then the land shall keep a sabbath unto Jehovah. 3Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its produce; 4but in the seventh year there shall be a rest of Sabbath observance for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. 6And the sabbath of the land shall be food for you: for you, your male and female servants, your hired man, and the stranger who sojourns with you, 7for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land; all its produce shall be for food. 8And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 9Then you shall cause the shofar of jubilation to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the shofar to pass throughout all your land. 10And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. 11The fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. 12For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field. 13In the Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. 14And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another. 15According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. 16According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the crops. 17Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Jehovah your God. 18Thus you shall do My statutes and keep My judgments, and do them; and you shall dwell in the land in safety. 19And the land shall yield its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and dwell there in safety. 20And if you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year, since we shall not sow nor gather in our produce? 21Then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall produce crops enough for three years. 22And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest. 23The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.  24And in all the land of your possession you shall grant redemption of the land. 25If one of your brethren becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and if his redeeming relative comes to redeem it, then he may redeem what his brother sold. 26Or if the man has no one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, 27then let him count the years since its sale, and restore the remainder to the man to whom he sold it, that he may return to his possession. 28But if he is not able to have it restored to himself, then what was sold shall remain in the hand of him who bought it until the Year of Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession. 29If a man sells a house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year he may redeem it. 30But if it is not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house in the walled city shall be confirmed permanently to him who bought it, throughout his generations. It shall not go out in the Jubilee. 31However the houses of villages which have no wall around them shall be considered as the fields of the land. They may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the Jubilee. 32Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, the Levites always have the right of redemption. 33And if a man redeems a house from the Levites, then the house that was sold in the city of his possession shall go out in the Jubilee; for the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel. 34But the field of the common land of their cities shall not be sold, for it is their perpetual possession. 35If one of your brethren becomes poor, and his hand has become shaky, then you shall support him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you. 36Take no usury or interest from him; but fear your God, that your brother may live with you. 37You shall not give him your money at interest, nor give him your food at a profit. 38I am Jehovah your God, who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God. 39And if one of your brethren who dwells by you becomes poor, and has sold himself to you, you shall not compel him to serve as a slave. 40As a hired servant and a sojourner he shall be with you, and shall serve you until the Year of Jubilee. 41And then he shall depart from you; he and his children with him; and shall return to his own family. He shall return to the possession of his fathers. 42For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves. 43You shall not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear your God. 44And as for your male and female slaves whom you may have from the nations that are around you, from them you shall buy male and female slaves. 45Moreover you shall buy the children of the strangers who sojourn among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall be your property. 46And you shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession; they shall be your permanent slaves. But regarding your brethren, the children of Israel, you shall not rule over one another with harshness. 47Now if a sojourner or stranger close to you becomes rich, and one of your brethren who dwells by him becomes poor, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner close to you, or to a member of the stranger's family, 48after he is sold he may be redeemed again. One of his brothers may redeem him; 49or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him; or anyone who is near of kin to him in his family may redeem him; or if he is able he may redeem himself. 50Thus he shall reckon with him who bought him: The price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; it shall be according to the time of a hired servant for him. 51If there are still many years remaining, according to them he shall repay the price of his redemption from the money with which he was bought. 52And if there remain but a few years until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to his years he shall repay him the price of his redemption. 53He shall be with him year by year as a hired servant, and he shall not rule with harshness over him before your eyes. 54And if he is not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the Year of Jubilee; he and his children with him. 55For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.


Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
 1   Lev 25:1 The sabbath of the seventh year.
Lev 25:8 The jubilee in the fiftieth year.
Lev 25:14 Of oppression.
Lev 25:18 A blessing of obedience.
Lev 25:23 The redemption of land.
Lev 25:29 Of houses.
Lev 25:35 Compassion to the poor.
Lev 25:39 The usage of bondmen.
Lev 25:47 The redemption of servants.
Exod 19:1 Num 1:1 Num 10:11 Num 10:12 Gal 4:24 Gal 4:25

 2   When ye.
Lev 14:34 Deut 32:8 Deut 32:49 Deut 34:4 Ps 24:1 Ps 24:2 Ps 115:16 Isa 8:8 Jer 27:5
keep. Heb. rest.
Lev 23:32
*marg:
Lev 25:2
a sabbath.
Lev 26:34 Lev 26:35 Exod 23:10 2Chr 36:21

 3   Lev 25:3

 4   Lev 25:20 - Lev 25:23 Lev 26:34 Lev 26:35 Lev 26:43 Exod 23:10 Exod 23:11 2Chr 36:21

 5   groweth.
2Kgs 19:29 Isa 37:30
thy vine undressed. Heb. the separation.


 6   Exod 23:11 Acts 2:44 Acts 4:32 Acts 4:34 Acts 4:35

 7   Lev 25:7

 8   Lev 23:15 Gen 2:2

 9   of the jubilee to sound. Heb. loud of sound.
Num 10:10 Ps 89:15 Acts 13:38 Acts 13:39 Rom 10:18 Rom 15:19 2Cor 5:19 - 2Cor 5:21 1Thess 1:8
jubilee.
Lev 25:10 - Lev 25:12 Lev 27:17 Lev 27:24 Num 36:4
the day.
Lev 16:20 Lev 16:30 Lev 23:24 Lev 23:27

 10   proclaim.
Exod 20:2 Ezra 1:3 Ps 146:7 Isa 49:9 Isa 49:24 Isa 49:25 Isa 61:1 - Isa 61:3 Isa 63:4 Jer 34:8 Jer 34:13 - Jer 34:17 Zech 9:11 Zech 9:12 Luke 1:74 Luke 4:16 - Luke 4:21 John 8:32 - John 8:36 Rom 6:17 Rom 6:18 2Cor 3:17 Gal 4:25 - Gal 4:31 Gal 5:1 Gal 5:13 1Pet 2:16 2Pet 2:19 2Pet 2:20
every man.
Lev 25:13 Lev 25:26 - Lev 25:28 Lev 25:33 Lev 25:34 Lev 27:17 - Lev 27:24
ye shall return.
Num 36:2 - Num 36:9

 11   A jubilee. Respecting the literal meaning of the word [ywbl,] yobel, or yovel, critics are not agreed. The most natural derivation of the word seems to be from [hwbyl,] hovil, the Hiphil form of [ybl,] yaval, to recall, restore, or bring back, because this year restored all slaves to their liberty, and brought back all alienated estates to their primitive owners. Accordingly the LXX. render it here [aphesis,] a "remission"; and Josephus says it signifies [eleutherian,] liberty.
Lev 27:17
ye shall.
Lev 25:5 - Lev 25:7

 12   Lev 25:6 Lev 25:7

 13   Lev 25:10 Lev 27:17 - Lev 27:24 Num 36:4

 14   Lev 25:17 Lev 19:13 Deut 16:19 Deut 16:20 Judg 4:3 1Sam 12:3 1Sam 12:4 2Chr 16:10 Neh 9:36 Neh 9:37 Job 20:19 Job 20:20 Ps 10:18 Pro 14:31 Pro 21:13 Pro 22:16 Pro 28:3 Pro 28:8 Pro 28:16 Eccl 5:8 Isa 1:17 Isa 3:12 - Isa 3:15 Isa 5:7 Isa 33:15 Isa 58:6 Jer 22:17 Ezek 22:7 Ezek 22:12 Ezek 22:13 Amos 5:11 Amos 5:12 Amos 8:4 - Amos 8:7 Mic 2:2 Mic 2:3 Mic 6:10 - Mic 6:12 Mic 7:3 Luke 3:14 1Cor 6:8 Jas 5:1 - Jas 5:5

 15   Lev 27:18 - Lev 27:23 Phil 4:5

 16   Lev 25:16

 17   shall not.
Lev 25:14
fear.
Lev 25:43 Lev 19:14 Lev 19:32 Gen 20:11 Gen 22:12 Gen 39:9 Gen 42:18 Exod 20:20 Deut 25:18 1Sam 12:24 2Chr 19:7 Neh 5:9 Neh 5:15 Ps 19:9 Pro 1:7 Jer 22:16 Mal 3:5 Luke 12:5 Acts 9:31 Acts 10:2 Acts 10:35 Rom 3:18 Rom 11:20

 18   Wherefore.
Lev 19:37 Ps 103:18
and ye.
Lev 26:3 - Lev 26:12 Deut 12:10 Deut 28:1 - Deut 28:14 Deut 33:12 Deut 33:28 Ps 4:8 Pro 1:33 Jer 7:3 - Jer 7:7 Jer 23:6 Jer 25:5 Jer 33:16 Ezek 33:24 - Ezek 33:26 Ezek 33:29 Ezek 34:25 - Ezek 34:28 Ezek 36:24 - Ezek 36:28

 19   Lev 26:5 Ps 67:6 Ps 85:12 Isa 30:23 Isa 65:21 Isa 65:22 Ezek 34:25 - Ezek 34:28 Ezek 36:30 Joel 2:24 Joel 2:26

 20   Num 11:4 Num 11:13 2Kgs 6:15 - 2Kgs 6:17 2Kgs 7:2 2Chr 25:9 Ps 78:19 Ps 78:20 Isa 1:2 Matt 6:25 - Matt 6:34 Matt 8:26 Luke 12:29 Phil 4:6 Heb 13:5 Heb 13:6

 21   I will. As it is here graciously promised, that the sixth year was to bring forth fruits for three years, not merely for two, it is evident that both the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee were distinctly provided for. They were not to sow from the sixth to the eighth year, omitting two seed times; nor reap from the sixth to the ninth, omitting two harvests. No legislator, unless conscious of being divinely commissioned, would have committed himself by enacting such a law as this; nor would any people have submitted to receive it, except in consequence of the fullest conviction that a divine authority had dictated it. It therefore stands as a proof that Moses acted by the express direction of the Almighty, and that the people were fully persuaded of the reality of his divine mission by the miracles he wrought.
Gen 26:12 Gen 41:47 Exod 16:29 Deut 28:3 Deut 28:8 Ps 133:3 Pro 10:22 2Cor 9:10
three years.
Lev 25:4 Lev 25:8 - Lev 25:11

 22   eighth.
2Kgs 19:29 Isa 37:30
old fruit.
Josh 5:11 Josh 5:12

 23   The land.
Lev 25:10 1Kgs 21:3 Ezek 48:14
for ever. or, to be quite cut off. Heb. for cutting off. for the land.
Deut 32:43 2Chr 7:20 Ps 24:1 Ps 85:1 Isa 8:8 Hos 9:3 Joel 2:18 Joel 3:2
for ye are.
Gen 47:9 1Chr 29:15 Ps 39:12 Ps 119:19 Heb 11:9 - Heb 11:13 1Pet 2:11

 24   redemption.
Lev 25:27 Lev 25:31 Lev 25:51 - Lev 25:53 Rom 8:23 1Cor 1:30 Eph 1:7 Eph 1:14 Eph 4:30

 25   Ruth 2:20 Ruth 3:2 Ruth 3:9 Ruth 3:12 Ruth 4:4 - Ruth 4:6 Jer 32:7 Jer 32:8 2Cor 8:9 Heb 2:13 Heb 2:14 Rev 5:9

 26   himself be able to redeem it. Heb. his hand hath attained,and found sufficiency.
Lev 5:7
*marg:
Lev 25:26

 27   Lev 25:50 - Lev 25:53

 28   and in the.
Lev 25:13
he shall. See on
Isa 35:9 Isa 35:10 Jer 32:15 1Cor 15:52 - 1Cor 15:54 1Thess 4:13 - 1Thess 4:18 1Pet 1:4 1Pet 1:5

 29   A very proper difference is here made between houses in a city and houses in the country. The former might be redeemed any time in the course of a year; but after that time could not be redeemed, or go out with the Jubilee: the latter might be redeemed at any time; and if not redeemed must go out with the jubilee. The reason in both cases is sufficiently evident; the house in the city might be built merely for the purposes of trade or traffic--the house in the country was builded on, or attached to, the inheritance which God had divided to the respective families. It was therefore necessary that the same law should apply to the house as to the inheritance; which necessity did not exist with regard to the house in the city. And, as the house in the city might be purchased for the purpose of trade, it would be very inconvenient for the purchaser, when his business was established, to be obliged to remove.


 30   Lev 25:30

 31   they may be redeemed. Heb. redemption belongeth unto it.
Ps 49:7 Ps 49:8

 32   the cities. As the Levites had no inheritance in Israel, but only cities to dwell in; and consequently the houses in these cities were all they could call their own, therefore they could not be ultimately alienated.
Num 35:2 - Num 35:8 Josh 21:1 - Josh 21:45

 33   a man purchase of the Levites. or, one of the Levites redeemthem. shall go.
Lev 25:28
for the houses.
Num 18:20 - Num 18:24 Deut 18:1 Deut 18:2

 34   Lev 25:23 Acts 4:36 Acts 4:37

 35   thy brother.
Lev 25:25 Deut 15:7 Deut 15:8 Pro 14:20 Pro 14:21 Pro 17:5 Pro 19:17 Mark 14:7 John 12:8 2Cor 8:9 Jas 2:5 Jas 2:6
fallen in decay. Heb. his hand faileth. then.
Ps 37:26 Ps 41:1 Ps 112:5 Ps 112:9 Pro 14:31 Luke 6:35 Acts 11:29 Rom 12:13 Rom 12:18 Rom 12:20 2Cor 9:1 2Cor 9:12 - 2Cor 9:15 Gal 2:10 1John 3:17
relieve. Heb. strengthen. a stranger.
Lev 19:34 Exod 23:9 Deut 10:18 Deut 10:19 Matt 25:35 Heb 13:2

 36   usury.
Exod 22:25 Deut 23:19 Deut 23:20 Neh 5:7 - Neh 5:10 Ps 15:5 Pro 28:8 Ezek 18:8 Ezek 18:13 Ezek 18:17 Ezek 22:12
fear.
Lev 25:17 Neh 5:9 Neh 5:15

 37   Lev 25:37

 38   which.
Exod 20:2
and to be.
Lev 11:45 Lev 22:32 Lev 22:33 Num 15:41 Jer 31:1 Jer 31:33 Jer 32:38 Heb 11:16

 39   be sold.
Exod 21:2 Exod 22:3 Deut 15:12 1Kgs 9:22 2Kgs 4:1 Neh 5:5 Jer 34:14
compel him to serve as. Heb. serve thyself with him with the service of, etc.
Lev 25:46
*marg:
Lev 25:39 Exod 1:14 Jer 25:14 Jer 27:7 Jer 30:8

 40   Exod 21:2 Exod 21:3

 41   then shall.
Exod 21:3 John 8:32 Rom 6:14 Titus 2:14
shall return.
Lev 25:10 Lev 25:28

 42   my servants.
Lev 25:55 Rom 6:22 1Cor 7:21 - 1Cor 7:23
as bondsmen. Heb. with the sale of a bondman.


 43   rule.
Lev 25:46 Lev 25:53 Exod 1:13 Exod 1:14 Exod 2:23 Exod 3:7 Exod 3:9 Exod 5:14 Isa 47:6 Isa 58:3 Eph 6:9 Col 4:1
but shalt.
Lev 25:17 Exod 1:17 Exod 1:21 Deut 25:18 Mal 3:5

 44   Exod 12:44 Ps 2:8 Ps 2:9 Isa 14:1 Isa 14:2 Rev 2:26 Rev 2:27

 45   Isa 56:3 - Isa 56:6

 46   And ye shall.
Isa 14:2
they shall be your bondmen for ever. Heb. ye shall serveyourselves with them.
Lev 25:39
ye shall not rule.
Lev 25:43

 47   sojourner or stranger wax rich. Heb. the hand of a stranger,etc. obtain, etc.
Lev 25:26 1Sam 2:7 1Sam 2:8 Jas 2:5

 48   Lev 25:25 Lev 25:35 Neh 5:5 Neh 5:8 Gal 4:4 Gal 4:5 Heb 2:11 - Heb 2:13

 49   or if he be.
Lev 25:26

 50   reckon.
Lev 25:27
price of his sale. This was a very equitable law, both to the sojourner to whom the man was sold, and to the Israelite who had been sold. The Israelite might redeem himself, or one of his kindred might redeem him; but this must not be done to the prejudice of his master. They were therefore to reckon the years he must have served, from that time till the jubilee; and then taking the current wages of a servant, per year, at that time, multiply the remaining years by that sum, and the aggregate was to be given to his master for his redemption. The Jews hold that the kindred of such a person were bound, if in their power, to redeem him, lest he should be swallowed up among the heathen; and we find (Neh 5:8) that this was done by the Jews on their return from the Babylonish captivity.
according to the time.
Lev 25:40 Lev 25:53 Deut 15:18 Job 7:1 Job 7:2 Job 14:6 Isa 16:14 Isa 21:16

 51   Lev 25:51

 52   jubilee. The jubilee was a wonderful institution, and of great service to the religion, freedom, and independence of the Hebrews. It was calculated to prevent the rich from oppressing the poor, and reducing them to perpetual slavery; and to hinder their obtaining possession of all the lands by purchase, mortgage, or usurpation. It was further intended, that debts should not be multiplied too much, lest the poor should be entirely ruined; that slaves should not always continue in servitude; that personal liberty, equality of property, and the regular order of families might, as much as possible, be preserved; and that the people might thus be strongly attached to their country, lands, and inheritances.


 53   Lev 25:43

 54   in these years. or, by these means. then.
Lev 25:40 Lev 25:41 Exod 21:2 Exod 21:3 Isa 49:9 Isa 49:25 Isa 52:3

 55   my servants.
Lev 25:42 Exod 13:3 Exod 20:2 Ps 116:16 Isa 43:3 Luke 1:74 Luke 1:75 Rom 6:14 Rom 6:17 Rom 6:18 Rom 6:22 1Cor 7:22 1Cor 7:23 1Cor 9:19 1Cor 9:21 Gal 5:13