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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Leviticus 25:1-7

Leviticus 25. The Year of Sabbath and of Jubile.

Leviticus 25:1. The Year of Sabbath (H). This is an ancient Hebrew institution (p. 102), cf. Exodus 23:10 *, where the law of a fallow every seventh year is set side by side with that of the rest every seventh day. In Ex., however, apart from this reference, there is no suggestion that the sabbath year is to be the same for the whole country, nor is this actually stated here. Only that which grows up without human labour is to be eaten. Undressed (Leviticus 25:5) is literally Nazirite-like (the hair being allowed to grow); cf. Leviticus 19:23. In the seventh year Hebrew slaves were to be released and debts remitted (Exodus 21:2; Deuteronomy 15:1; Deuteronomy 15:12; Jeremiah 34:8). The origin of the law was possibly an agricultural custom with humanitarian and religious motives supervening.

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