Leviticus 25:1
in Leviticus 25Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,
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And Jehovah spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
KJV
And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
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This verse in Leviticus 25
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The sabbatical year and the year of Jubilee belong to that great sabbatical system which runs through the religious observances of the Law, but rest upon moral rather than upon formally religious ground. It is not, therefore, without reason that they are here set apart from the set times which fell strictly within the sphere of religious observances.
This site's exposition
spake unto Moses in mount Sinai
on Leviticus 25:1-2
The chapter is placed at mount Sinai, and the first sabbath it commands belongs to the ground. Exodus 23:10 and 23:11 had already ordered a fallow seventh year for the sake of the poor and the beasts. Here the same year is called a sabbath unto the LORD, so the soil is given a rest of its own and the reason given for it is God rather than need.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai,....
In this God expected from them extraordinary instances of faith and obedience, and they might expect from God extraordinary instances of power and goodness in providing for them,
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
“What has the subject of the Sabbatical year [stated here in this section] to do with that of Mount Sinai? Were not all the commandments declared on Sinai?
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיְדַבֵּ֤ר | vaydaber | and he spoke | H1696 → | 1141 times |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| מֹשֶׁ֔ה | mosheh | Moses | H4872 → | 765 times |
| בְּהַ֥ר | behar | on [the] mountain of | H2022 → | 546 times |
| סִינַ֖י | sinai | Sinai | H5514 → | 35 times |
| לֵאמֹֽר׃ | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַיְדַבֵּ֤רand he spoke
vaydaberH1696 →1141 times
יְהוָה֙Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
מֹשֶׁ֔הMoses
moshehH4872 →765 times
בְּהַ֥רon [the] mountain of
beharH2022 →546 times
סִינַ֖יSinai
sinaiH5514 →35 times
לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Numbers 1:1On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in…
it leads to
- Exodus 25:22
And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I command you…
- Numbers 10:11–12
On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony,
- Exodus 19:1
In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 25:22
Through
Exodus 19:1In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
it leads to
- Exodus 16:1
On the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt, the whole congregation of Israel set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is…
- Exodus 12:6
You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
- Leviticus 23:16–18
You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
- Exodus 12:2
“This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
- Numbers 33:15
They set out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 16:1
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Andrew Bonar, A Commentary on Leviticus; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.