Leviticus 25:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN MOUNT SINAI, SAYING,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES IN MOUNT SINAI, SAYING,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SPEAK UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, WHEN YE COME INTO THE LAND WHICH I GIVE YOU, THEN SHALL THE LAND KEEP A SABBATH UNTO THE LORD._ When ye come into the land which I give you. It has been questioned on what year, after the occupation of Canaan, the Sabbatic year began to be obse... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT WHICH GROWETH OF ITS OWN ACCORD OF THY HARVEST THOU SHALT NOT REAP, NEITHER GATHER THE GRAPES OF THY VINE UNDRESSED: FOR IT IS A YEAR OF REST UNTO THE LAND._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT NUMBER SEVEN SABBATHS OF YEARS UNTO THEE, SEVEN TIMES SEVEN YEARS; AND THE SPACE OF THE SEVEN SABBATHS OF YEARS SHALL BE UNTO THEE FORTY AND NINE YEARS._ Thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years. This most extraordinary of all civil institutions, which received the name of х_ SHOWP... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN SHALT THOU CAUSE THE TRUMPET OF THE JUBILE TO SOUND ON THE TENTH DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH, IN THE DAY OF ATONEMENT SHALL YE MAKE THE TRUMPET SOUND THROUGHOUT ALL YOUR LAND._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL HALLOW THE FIFTIETH YEAR, AND PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND UNTO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF: IT SHALL BE A JUBILE UNTO YOU; AND YE SHALL RETURN EVERY MAN UNTO HIS POSSESSION, AND YE SHALL RETURN EVERY MAN UNTO HIS FAMILY._ Hallow the fiftieth year. Much difference of opini... [ Continue Reading ]
_A JUBILE SHALL THAT FIFTIETH YEAR BE UNTO YOU: YE SHALL NOT SOW, NEITHER REAP THAT WHICH GROWETH OF ITSELF IN IT, NOR GATHER THE GRAPES IN IT OF THY VINE UNDRESSED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR IT IS THE JUBILE; IT SHALL BE HOLY UNTO YOU: YE SHALL EAT THE INCREASE THEREOF OUT OF THE FIELD._ Ye shall eat the increase thereof ... All that the ground yielded spontaneously during that period might be eaten for their necessary subsistence; but no persons were at liberty to hoard or form a... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THE YEAR OF THIS JUBILE YE SHALL RETURN EVERY MAN UNTO HIS POSSESSION._ Ye shall return ... Inheritances, from whatever cause, and how frequently soever they had been alienated, came back, free of all encumbrances, into the hands of the original proprietors or their heirs. This law of entail, b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF THOU SELL OUGHT UNTO THY NEIGHBOUR, OR BUYEST OUGHT OF THY NEIGHBOUR'S HAND, YE SHALL NOT OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_YE SHALL NOT THEREFORE OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER; BUT THOU SHALT FEAR THY GOD: FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD._ Ye shall not ... oppress one another. This, which is the same as Leviticus 25:14, related to the sale or purchase of possessions, and the duty of paying an honest and equitable regard, on both sid... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE YE SHALL DO MY STATUTES, AND KEEP MY JUDGMENTS, AND DO THEM; AND YE SHALL DWELL IN THE LAND IN SAFETY._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN I WILL COMMAND MY BLESSING UPON YOU IN THE SIXTH YEAR, AND IT SHALL BRING FORTH FRUIT FOR THREE YEARS._ I will command my blessing ... A provision was made, by the special interposition of God, to supply the deficiency of food which would otherwise have resulted from the suspension of all lab... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE LAND SHALL NOT BE SOLD FOR EVER: FOR THE LAND IS MINE; FOR YE ARE STRANGERS AND SOJOURNERS WITH ME._ The land shall not be sold for ever - or, 'be quite cut off,' as the margin better renders it. The land was God's, who had dispossessed the former inhabitants, and, in prosecution of an importa... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF A MAN SELL A DWELLING HOUSE IN A WALLED CITY, THEN HE MAY REDEEM IT WITHIN A WHOLE YEAR AFTER IT IS SOLD; WITHIN A FULL YEAR MAY HE REDEEM IT._ If a man sell a dwelling house. All sales of houses were subject to the same condition. But there was a difference between the houses in villages,... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOTWITHSTANDING THE CITIES OF THE LEVITES, AND THE HOUSES OF THE CITIES OF THEIR POSSESSION, MAY THE LEVITES REDEEM AT ANY TIME._ Notwithstanding the cities ... The Levites, having no possessions but their towns and their houses, the law conferred on them the same privileges that were granted to t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF THY BROTHER BE WAXEN POOR, AND FALLEN IN DECAY WITH THEE; THEN THOU SHALT RELIEVE HIM: YEA, THOUGH HE BE A STRANGER, OR A SOJOURNER; THAT HE MAY LIVE WITH THEE._ If thy brother be waxen poor ... relieve him. This was a most benevolent provision for the poor and unfortunate, designed to aid... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF THY BROTHER THAT DWELLETH BY THEE BE WAXEN POOR, AND BE SOLD UNTO THEE; THOU SHALT NOT COMPEL HIM TO SERVE AS A BONDSERVANT:_ If thy brother ... be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee, х_ 'AACHIYKAA_ (H251) _ `IMAAK_ (H5973), thy neighbour]. An Israelite might be compelled, through misfortune... [ Continue Reading ]