Leviticus 25:13
in Leviticus 25In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
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ASV
In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.
KJV
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.
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This verse in Leviticus 25
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
This law of entail, by which the right heir could never be excluded, was a provision of great wisdom for preserving families and tribes perfectly distinct, and their genealogies faithfully recorded, in order that all might have evidence to establish their right to the ancestral property. Hence the tribe and family of Christ were readily discovered at his birth.
This 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 Awakening2 voices
In the year of this jubilee,....
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.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
“This refers to overcharging in money matters.”. ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF YEARS AFTER THE JUBILEE THOU SHALT BUY OF THY NEIGHBOR.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בִּשְׁנַ֥ת | bishnat | in [the] year of | H8141 → | 877 times |
| הַיּוֹבֵ֖ל | haiyovel | the jubilee | H3104 → | 27 times |
| הַזֹּ֑את | hazot | <the> this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| תָּשֻׁ֕בוּ | tashuvu | you will return | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| אִ֖ישׁ | ʾish | each one | H376 → | 1663 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| אֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ׃ | ʾachuzato | possession his | H272 → | 66 times |
בִּשְׁנַ֥תin [the] year of
bishnatH8141 →877 times
הַיּוֹבֵ֖לthe jubilee
haiyovelH3104 →27 times
הַזֹּ֑את<the> this
hazotH2063 →603 times
תָּשֻׁ֕בוּyou will return
tashuvuH7725 →1056 times
אִ֖ישׁeach one
ʾishH376 →1663 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
אֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ׃possession his
ʾachuzatoH272 →66 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
Leviticus 25:10So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 34:8
After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
- Isaiah 63:4
For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
- Isaiah 61:1–3
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty…
- 1 Peter 2:16
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
- Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- Jeremiah 34:8
Through
Numbers 36:4And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
it leads to
- Leviticus 25:23
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
- Leviticus 25:10–18
So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and…
- Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
- Leviticus 25:23
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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.