Leviticus 25:12
in Leviticus 25For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
KJV
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
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This verse in Leviticus 25
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
it shall be holy unto you
on Leviticus 25:12-13
The year is called holy, and the only activity it lists is eating what the field gives. Whether the trumpet fell on the forty-ninth year or on a fiftieth that followed it is argued among the commentators, since verse 8 ends the count at forty and nine while verses 10 and 11 say fiftieth. The Mishnah, the rabbinic law code compiled around AD 200, works this chapter out in the tractate Arakhin, and the Babylonian Talmud at Arakhin 32b holds that the jubilee ceased to be observed once the tribes were carried away. Scripture itself never narrates a jubilee being kept.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), and the release of personal debts ( Deut. xv. 2, 3 ), there was to be the legal restoration of every Israelite to all the property, and all the liberty, which had been alienated from him since the last jubilee; so that never was any people so secured in their liberty and property (those glories of a people) as Israel was.
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For it is the jubilee, it shall be holy,....
By our law indeed, if lands be granted to a man and his heirs, upon condition that he should never sell or alienate them, the grant is good, but the condition is void and repugnant: Iniquum est ingenuis hominibus (say the lawyers) non esse liberam rerum suarum alienationem--It is unjust to prevent free men from alienating their own possessions.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֚י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יוֹבֵ֣ל | yovel | [is] a jubilee | H3104 → | 27 times |
| הִ֔וא | hi' | it | H1931 → | 1879 times |
| קֹ֖דֶשׁ | kodesh | a holy thing | H6944 → | 469 times |
| תִּהְיֶ֣ה | tihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| לָכֶ֑ם | lakhem | to <the> you | ||
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַ֨שָּׂדֶ֔ה | hasadeh | the field | H7704 → | 334 times |
| תֹּאכְל֖וּ | tokhelu | you will eat | H398 → | 810 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| תְּבוּאָתָֽהּ׃ | tevuatah | produce its | H8393 → | 42 times |
כִּ֚יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
יוֹבֵ֣ל[is] a jubilee
yovelH3104 →27 times
הִ֔ואit
hi'H1931 →1879 times
קֹ֖דֶשׁa holy thing
kodeshH6944 →469 times
תִּהְיֶ֣הit will be
tihyehH1961 →3559 times
לָכֶ֑םto <the> you
lakhem
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַ֨שָּׂדֶ֔הthe field
hasadehH7704 →334 times
תֹּאכְל֖וּyou will eat
tokheluH398 →810 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
תְּבוּאָתָֽהּ׃produce its
tevuatahH8393 →42 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.