Leviticus 25:13 BSB

Leviticus 25:13

In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בִּשְׁנַ֥ת	bish.Nat	in [the] year of	H8141 →
הַיּוֹבֵ֖ל	hai.yo.Vel	the jubilee	H3104 →
הַזֹּ֑את	ha.Zot	<the> this	H2063 →
תָּשֻׁ֕בוּ	ta.Shu.vu	you will return	H7725 →
אִ֖ישׁ	'ish	each one	H376 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אֲחֻזָּתֽוֹ׃	'a.chu.za.To	possession his	H272 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Leviticus 25:10
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…
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.
Through
Numbers 36:4
And 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.”
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,

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Leviticus

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Leviticus