Julia Evelina Smith Parker (1876)

1And Jehovah will speak to Moses, in mount Sinai, saying, 2Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When ye shall come into the land which I gave to you, the land shall rest a Sabbath to Jehovah. 3Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather its produce;  4And in the seventh year, a Sabbath of rest shall be to the land, a Sabbath to Jehovah: thy field thou shalt not sow, and thy vineyard thou. shalt not prune. 5The overflowing of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy separation thou shalt not gather: a year of the Sabbaths shall be to the land. 6And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food; to thee and to thy servant, and to thy maid, and to thy hireling, and to thine inhabitant sojourning with thee. 7And to thy cattle, and to the beast which is in thy land shall all its produce be for food. 8And number to thee seven Sabbaths of years, seven years, seven times; and they shall be to thee the days of seven Sabbaths of years, nine and forty years. 9And cause the trumpet of shouts of joy to pass over: in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month, in the day of expiations, shall ye cause the trumpet to pass over in all your land. 10And consecrate the year, the fiftieth year, and call a letting go free in the land, to all inhabiting it: it shall be a jubilee to you; and return ye each to his possession, and each to his family shall ye turn back. 11It a jubilee the year, the fiftieth year shall be to you: ye shall not sow and ye shall not reap its overflowings, and ye shall not gather its separations. 12For it a jubilee; holy shall it be to you: from the field ye shall eat its produce. 13In the year of this jubilee ye shall turn back each to his possession. 14And when ye shall sell a selling to thy neighbor, or buying of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress each his brother. 15According to the number of years after the jubilee, thou shalt buy from thy neighbor; according to the number of the years' produce shall he sell to thee. 16According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase his purchase, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish his purchase: for from the numbering of the produce, he sold to thee. 17And ye shall not oppress each his neighbor; and thou shalt fear thy God: for I Jehovah your God. 18And ye did my laws and watched my judgments and did them, and dwelt upon the land in confidence. 19And the land gave her fruits, and ye ate to satisfying, and ye dwelt in confidence upon it 20And when ye shall say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow and we shall not gather our produce. 21And I commanded my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it made the produce for three years. 22And ye sowed the eighth year, and ate from the old produce till the ninth year; till its produce came in ye shall eat the old. 23And the land shall not be sold to be cut off, for the land is to me; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. 24And in all the land of your possession ye shall give a redemption to the land. 25When thy brother shall be poor, and he sold his possession, and he being near to him came to redeem it, and he redeemed the selling of his brother. 26And when to a man there shall be none to him to redeem, and his hand attained and found a sufficiency to redeem it; 27And he reckoned the years of his selling, and he returned that remaining over to the man to whom he sold it, and turned back to his possession. 28And if his hand found not a sufficiency to return to him, and his selling was in the hand of him buying it, till the year of the jubilee: and it went forth in the jubilee, and he turned back to his possession. 29And when a man shall sell the house of dwelling in a walled city, its redemption of it shall be till it was completed: a year of days from its selling shall be its redemption. 30And if it was not redeemed till the filling up of a complete year, and the house which is in the city, which, if walled, was set forever to him buying it for his generation: it shall not go forth in the jubilee. 31And the houses of the villages which to them not being walled round about, shall be reckoned for a field of the land: redemption shall be to it, and it shall go forth in the jubilee. 32And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, redemption shall be always to the Levites. 33And whoever shall redeem from the Levites, and the selling of the house and the city of his possession went out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites, this their possession in the midst of the sons of IsraeL 34And the field of the area of their cities shall not be sold, for it is a possession to them forever. 35And when thy brother shall be poor, and his hand wavering with thee, hold fast to him; a stranger and sojourner to live with thee. 36Thou shalt not take from him interest and increase; thou shalt be afraid of thy God; and thy brother to live with thee. 37Thy silver thou shalt not give to him upon interest, and upon increase thou. shalt not give him thy food. 38I am Jehovah your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to be to you for God. 39And when thy brother shall be poor with thee, and he was sold to thee, thou shalt not serve upon him the service of a servant. 40As the hireling, as the sojourner, he shall be with thee; till the year of jubilee he shall serve with thee; 41And he shall go forth from thee, he and his sons with him, and turn back to his family, to the possession of his fathers shall he turn back. 42For they are my servants whom I brought them out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold from the sale of a servant 43Thou shalt not rule over him with crushing, and thou shalt be afraid of thy God. 44And thy servant and thy maid which shall be to thee, from the nations which are round about you, from them ye shall buy servant and maid. 45And from the sons of the sojourner sojourning with you, from them shall ye buy, and from their families which are with you, which were born in your land: and they were to you for a possession. 46And ye shall possess them for your sons after you to take possession forever; ye shall serve with them: and over your brethren the sons of Israel, ye shall not rule over him, each over his brother with oppression. 47And if the hand of a stranger and sojourner with thee shall attain, and thy brother with him be poor, and he sold to the stranger, a sojourner with thee, or to the root of the stranger's family: 48After the selling, redemption shall be to him; one from his brethren shall redeem him: 49Or his uncle, or his uncle's son shall redeem him, or from the remainder of his flesh from his family, shall redeem him; or his hand attained, and he redeemed himself. 50And he reckoned with him buying him, from the year of his being sold to him till the year of the jubilee: and the silver of his selling was according to the number of years, as the days of a hireling, shall it be with him. 51If yet a multitude of years, according to them he shall return his redemption from the silver of his sale. 52And if a fewness remained to the years till the year of jubilee; and he reckoned to him according to his years, he shall return his redemption. 53As the hireling of the year by the year shall he be with him: he shall not rule him by crushing to thine eyes. 54And if he shall not be redeemed in these, and he shall go forth in the year of the jubilee, he and his sons with him. 55For to me the sons of Israel are servants; they are my servants which I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: I 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