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Leviticus 25
Leviticus 25:1 And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the
land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto the Lord.
3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy
vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;
4 But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land, a Sabbath
for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap,
neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto
the land.
6 And the Sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy
servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that
sojourneth with thee,
7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the
increase thereof be meat.
8 And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven
years; and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and
nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of
the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound
throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all
the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee unto you; and
ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man
unto his family.
11 A Jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither
reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine
undressed.
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Jubilee = It was celebrated every
fiftieth year, marking the half
century; so that it followed the seventh
Sabbatic year, and for two years in succession
the land lay fallow.
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It was announced by the blowing of trumpets on the day of atonement (about
the 1 st of October), the tenth day of the first
month of the Israelites' civil year (the seventh
of their ecclesiastical year
12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase
thereof out of the field.
13 In the year of this Jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.
14 And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's
hand, ye shall not oppress one another:
15 According to the number of years after the Jubilee thou shalt buy of thy
neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell
unto thee:
16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof,
and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for
according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.
17 Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for
I am the Lord your God.
18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye
shall dwell in the land in safety.
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This is God's condition =
IF ye shall do my
statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;
and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.
19 And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell
therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not
sow, nor gather in our increase:
21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year,
and it shall bring forth fruit for three
years.
22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old
fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of
the old store.
23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are
strangers and sojourners with me.
24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the
land.
25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and
if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother
sold.
26 And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
27 Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the over plus
unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.
28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall
remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of Jubilee: and in
the Jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.
29 And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it
within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house
that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it
throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the Jubilee.
31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be
counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go
out in the Jubilee.
32 Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of
their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.
33 And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the
city of his possession, shall go out in the year of Jubilee: for the houses of
the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their
perpetual possession.
35 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou
shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may
live with thee.
36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother
may live with thee.
37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for
increase.
38 I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to
give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
39 And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto
thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant:
40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall
serve thee unto the year of Jubilee:
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Exodus 21:2 If thou buy an Hebrew servant,
six years he shall serve: and
in the seventh he shall go out free for
nothing.
3 If he came in by himself, he shall go out by
himself: if he were married, then his wife shall
go out with him.
4 If his master have given him a wife, and she
have born him sons or daughters; the wife and
her children shall be her master's, and he shall
go out by himself.
41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and
shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall
he return.
42 For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt:
they shall not be sold as bondmen.
43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God.
44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the
heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them
shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your
land: and they shall be your possession.
46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to
inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over
your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with
rigour.
47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that
dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by
thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may
redeem him:
49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of
kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem
himself.
50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold
to him unto the year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according
unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be
with him.
51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again
the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of Jubilee, then he shall
count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price
of his redemption.
53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not
rule with rigour over him in thy sight.
54 And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of
Jubilee, both he, and his children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I
brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
John 10:7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
I am the door of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not
hear them.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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