[[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Leviticus Overview]] [[Leviticus 24]] [[Leviticus 26]] # Leviticus 25 📖 > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Regulations for the Sabbatical Year [[#Verse 01.]] The Lord spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai:  [[#Verse 02.]] “Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the Lord.  [[#Verse 03.]] Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce, [[#Verse 04.]] but in the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest—a Sabbath to the Lord. You must not sow your field or prune your vineyard.  [[#Verse 05.]] You must not gather in the aftergrowth of your harvest and you must not pick the grapes of your unpruned vines; the land must have a year of complete rest. [[#Verse 06.]] You may have the Sabbath produce of the land to eat—you, your male servant, your female servant, your hired worker, the resident foreigner who stays with you,  [[#Verse 07.]] your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land—all its produce will be for you to eat. ### Regulations for the Jubilee Year of Release [[#Verse 08.]] “‘You must count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven weeks of years will amount to forty-nine years.  [[#Verse 09.]] You must sound loud horn blasts—in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement—you must sound the horn in your entire land.  [[#Verse 10.]] So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your Jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.  [[#Verse 11.]] That fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its after growth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines.  [[#Verse 12.]] Because that year is a Jubilee, it will be holy to you—you may eat its produce from the field. ### Release of Landed Property [[#Verse 13.]] “‘In this Year of Jubilee you must each return to your property.  [[#Verse 14.]] If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother. [[#Verse 15.]] You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. [[#Verse 16.]] The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.  [[#Verse 17.]] No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.  [[#Verse 18.]] You must obey my statutes and my regulations; you must be sure to keep them so that you may live securely in the land. [[#Verse 19.]] “‘The land will give its fruit and you may eat until you are satisfied, and you may live securely in the land.  [[#Verse 20.]] If you say, “What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?” [[#Verse 21.]] I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years,  [[#Verse 22.]] and you may sow the eighth year and eat from that sixth year’s produce—old produce. Until you bring in the ninth year’s produce, you may eat old produce.  [[#Verse 23.]] The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreign residents, temporary settlers, with me.  [[#Verse 24.]] In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land. [[#Verse 25.]] “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his near redeemer is to come to you and redeem what his brother sold. [[#Verse 26.]] If a man has no redeemer, but he prospers and gains enough for its redemption, [[#Verse 27.]] he is to calculate the value of the years it was sold, refund the balance to the man to whom he had sold it, and return to his property.  [[#Verse 28.]] If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the Jubilee year, but it must revert in the Jubilee and the original owner may return to his property. ### Release of Houses [[#Verse 29.]] “‘If a man sells a residential house in a walled city, its right of redemption must extend until one full year from its sale; its right of redemption must extend to a full calendar year.  [[#Verse 30.]] If it is not redeemed before the full calendar year is ended, the house in the walled city will belong without reclaim to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it will not revert in the Jubilee.  [[#Verse 31.]] The houses of villages, however, which have no wall surrounding them must be considered as the field of the land; they will have the right of redemption and must revert in the Jubilee.  [[#Verse 32.]] As for the cities of the Levites, the houses in the cities which they possess, the Levites must have a perpetual right of redemption.  [[#Verse 33.]] Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem—the sale of a house which is his property in a city—must revert in the Jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites. [[#Verse 34.]] Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession. ### Debt and Slave Regulations [[#Verse 35.]] “‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.  [[#Verse 36.]] Do not take interest or profit from him, but you must fear your God and your brother must live with you. [[#Verse 37.]] You must not lend him your money at interest and you must not sell him food for profit.  [[#Verse 38.]] I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan—to be your God. [[#Verse 39.]] “‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service. [[#Verse 40.]] He must be with you as a hired worker, as a resident foreigner; he must serve with you until the Year of Jubilee,  [[#Verse 41.]] but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.  [[#Verse 42.]] Since the Israelites are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they must not be sold in a slave sale.  [[#Verse 43.]] You must not rule over them harshly, but you must fear your God. [[#Verse 44.]] “‘As for your male and female slaves who may belong to you—you may buy male and female slaves from the nations all around you.  [[#Verse 45.]] Also, you may buy slaves from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land; they may become your property.  [[#Verse 46.]] You may give them as an inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly. [[#Verse 47.]] “‘If a resident foreigner who is with you prospers and your brother becomes impoverished with regard to him so that he sells himself to a resident foreigner who is with you or to a member of a foreigner’s family,  [[#Verse 48.]] after he has sold himself he retains a right of redemption. One of his brothers may redeem him,  [[#Verse 49.]] or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or any one of the rest of his blood relatives—his family—may redeem him, or if he prospers he may redeem himself.  [[#Verse 50.]] He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the Jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.  [[#Verse 51.]] If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,  [[#Verse 52.]] but if only a few years remain until the Jubilee, he must calculate for himself in keeping with the remaining years and refund it for his redemption. [[#Verse 53.]] He must be with the one who bought him like a yearly hired worker. The one who bought him must not rule over him harshly in your sight.  [[#Verse 54.]] If, however, he is not redeemed in these ways, he must go free in the Jubilee year, he and his children with him,  [[#Verse 55.]] because the Israelites are my own servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ###### Verse 47. ###### Verse 48. ###### Verse 49. ###### Verse 50. ###### Verse 51. ###### Verse 52. ###### Verse 53. ###### Verse 54. ###### Verse 55. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? 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