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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Leviticus 25:14

Verse Leviticus 25:14. Ye shall not oppress one another] Ye shall take no advantage of each other's ignorance either in buying or selling; for he that buys an article at less than it is worth, or sells one for more than it is worth, taking advantage in both cases of the ignorance of the vender or buyer, is no better than a thief, as he actually robs his neighbour of as much property as he has bought the article at below or sold it above its current value.

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See also Leviticus 25:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SELL OUGHT - i. e., any piece of ground. OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER - Rather, overreach one another. (Compare 1 Samuel 12:3)....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE SABBATIC YEAR AND THE YEAR OF JUBILEE CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The Sabbatic year (Leviticus 25:1)_ 2. The jubilee (Leviticus 25:8) 3. The jubilee and the land (Leviticus 25:13) 4.

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE YEAR OF JUBILE. This law contains two large provisions, the return of estates to their original owners, and the liberation of Hebrew slaves, both in the fiftieth year. It also contains a section w...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OPPRESS. overreach....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The 50th year or year of Jubile. In each such year landed property shall revert to its original owner, and the price to be paid in buying and selling such possessions shall be estimated in accordance...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _thou … ye_ The variation in person indicates the combination of two sources. _thy neighbour_ An unusual Heb. word (- _âmîth_), occurring in the H section eleven times, 5:21 (_bis_), Leviticus 18:20;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YE SHALL NOT OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER— This would be rendered more properly, _shall not deceive one another;_ for the context evidently proves that _deceit,_ not _oppression,_ was here the evil guarded aga...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE 25:8-55 RULES FOR THE OBSERVANCE OF THE JUBILEE 25:8-22 TEXT 25:8-22 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years, and there shall be unt...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:14 another. (c-20) Or 'a man shall not overreach his brother.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SABBATICAL YEAR. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE The matters treated in this chapter are closely related to those in Leviticus 23, and their separation is another indication that we are dealing with a book ma...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LEVITICUS *WORSHIP THE *LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF *HOLINESS LEVITICUS _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. Words in boxes are from the Bible, except for the words i...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE SHALL NOT OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER. — Better, _ye shall not overreach any man his brother._ Not only does the Law provide against the poor man losing his land for ever, but enjoins that in the temporary...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ כִֽי ־תִמְכְּר֤וּ מִמְכָּר֙ לַ עֲמִיתֶ֔ךָ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE JUBILEE AND THE LAND Leviticus 25:13 "In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall no...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    THE SABBATIC YEAR AND THE JUBILEE Leviticus 25:1 THE system of annually recurring sabbatic times, as given in chapter 23, culminated in the sabbatic seventh month. But this remarkable system of sabba...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE SABBATICAL YEAR AND THE JUBILEE Leviticus 25:1 As the weekly Sabbath was to give septennial rest for man and beast, so the sabbatical year, returning after six years of unbroken harvests was to b...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The last section of the Book of Leviticus is occupied with setting forth laws concerning the outward signs in the land of the proof of possession, together with certain promises and warnings, all endi...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall (h) not oppress one another: (h) By deceit, or otherwise....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Grieve. Hebrew, "deceive not." St. Chrysostom observes, that to engage another to sell us any thing for what we know is beneath its value, is theft. (Grotius, Jur. ii. 12.) The Rabbins also decide th...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The return of every man to his own possession and to his own family, beside the mercy of the thing itself; certainly, had this very important point in view; namely, to preserve in proper distinction t...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We have seen the various forms of the work of Christ, of His offering of Himself to God, whether in all the perfectness of His life, or in His death as the means of our acceptance. We have seen furthe...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 25. The land itself is held for Jehovah, as being His; it must enjoy God's rest; and moreover he who had lost his inheritance therein should find it again, according to the counsels of God, at...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IF THOU SELL OUGHT UNTO THY NEIGHBOUR,.... Any estate or possession, house or land, at any time before the year of jubilee: OR BUYEST [OUGHT] OF THY NEIGHBOUR'S HAND; of movable goods, as the Tar...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest [ought] of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one another: Ver. 14. _Ye shall not oppress._] But proceed by that golden rule, "Whatever ye...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Ye shall not oppress_ Neither the seller, by requiring more, nor the buyer, by taking the advantage from his brother's necessities to give him less than the worth of it....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Sabbath of the seuenth yeere. 8 The Iubile in the fiftieth yeere. 14 Of oppression. 18 A blessing of obedience. 23 The redemption of land, 29 Of houses. 35 Compassion of the poore. 39 The...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And if thou sell aught unto thy neighbor, or buyest aught of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not oppress one another, not overreach or practice fraud;...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE YEAR OF JUBILEE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SEVENTH YEAR SABBATH (VV. 1-7) Here was a wonderful provision for Israel every seven years. When they came into their land, they were to plant their land for six years and reap its fruits. But th...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-22 The word "jubilee" signifies a peculiarly animated sound of the silver trumpets. This sound was to be made on the evening of the great day of atonement; for the proclamation of gospel liberty an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Neither the seller by requiring more, nor the buyer by taking the advantage from his brother's necessities to give him less than the worth of it....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The intelligent reader will discern a strong moral link between this and the preceding chapter. In Leviticus 24:1-23 we learn that the house of Israel is preserved for the land of Canaan. In chapter 2...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Leviticus 25:14 sell H4376 (H8799) anything H4465 neighbor H5997 buy H7069 (H8800) neighbors H5997 hand H3027

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE YEAR OF YUBILE. THE YEAR OF GRAND RELEASE (LEVITICUS 25:8). The year of grand release might well never have been put fully into practise throughout the whole of Israel, as it required full ownersh...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Leviticus 25:1. _And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 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 sab...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Laws of the land. Sabbatic year and year of Jubilee. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The blessing of God upon our provision will make a little go a long way and satisfy even the poor w...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Leviticus 25:4. The _seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest._ While the Hebrews continued faithful under the Theocracy of heaven, they were the happiest people in the world. A sabbatical year was a y...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _A Sabbath of rest unto the land._ THE SABBATIC YEAR AND JUBILEE 1. I do not suppose that these sabbatic regulations referred severally to separate and distinct things. The seventh day, the seventh m...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LEVITICUS—NOTE ON LEVITICUS 25:13 The PRICE of PROPERTY must be calculated in terms of how many YEARS have passed since the jubilee, since it is not the property itself that

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    The Fear of Jubilee SUGGESTIVE READINGS Leviticus 25:1.—Then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto the Lord. For a whole year the land ceased to be the property of the owner; he might not till the soil,...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The subject of the sacred seasons is taken up again in this chapter, after the parenthetical insertion of Leviticus 24:1. There remain the septennial festive season and that of the half-ce...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we get into chapter twenty-five, they were to give the land a Sabbath day's rest or Sabbath year. They were to plant the land for six years, the seventh year they were to let the land rest. Rea...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 6:8; 1 Samuel 12:3; 1 Samuel 12:4; 2 Chronicles 16:10;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ye shall not oppress — Neither the seller by requiring more, nor the buyer by taking the advantage from his brother's necessities to give him less than the worth of it....

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