![]() It shall be a Jubilee for you and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family" (Leviticus 25:10). The fiftieth year was to be a year of Jubilee: "And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. (Because the people failed to observe the land's sabbath-rest years, they were sent into captivity for seventy years-one year for each seven-year cycle ignored-so the land could rest ).Įvery fiftieth year, God allowed for a reversal of accounts in Israel-property was to be restored to original clans and families, debts were to be resolved and debtors set free, and the land was given an additional year of rest. He also wanted the land to rest and so established a sabbath-rest year for the land-every seventh year the land was not to be tilled (Leviticus 25:1-7). God wanted His people to rest one day out of seven, so established the principle of the Sabbath rest day (Exodus 20:8-11). Laws were put in place to emphasize the fact that everything belonged to God. Therefore, no Israelite could permanently own the land or other Israelites as debtors or slaves. The people were His and the land of Canaan was His. One ramification of this was that the two defining parts of any nation-land and people-belonged to God. Israel began as a theocracy without a human king. Law of Redemption and Jubilee Leviticus 25:8-55 ![]()
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