Leviticus 25:1

1 ADONAI spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai; he said,

Leviticus 25:1 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:1

And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai
Not when Moses was with the Lord on that mount forty days, but after he came down from thence, even after the tabernacle was set up, while the children of Israel where encamped about that mountain, and before they took their journey from thence; for they continued some time in the wilderness of Sinai, and here it was the Lord spoke to Moses; for the words may be rendered "by" or "near Mount Sinai" ^F7; and so Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 says, the following laws were delivered to Moses, when Israel was encamped under Mount Sinai:

saying;
as follows.

F7 (rhb) "apud seu juxta montem", Piscator; so Ainsworth, Patrick
F8 Antiqu. l. 3. c. 12. sect. 3.

Leviticus 25:1 In-Context

1 ADONAI spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai; he said,

2 "Tell the people of Isra'el, 'When you enter the land I am giving you, the land itself is to observe a Shabbat rest for ADONAI.

3 Six years you will sow your field; six years you will prune your grapevines and gather their produce.

4 But in the seventh year is to be a Shabbat of complete rest for the land, a Shabbat for ADONAI; you will neither sow your field nor prune your grapevines.

5 You are not to harvest what grows by itself from the seeds left by your previous harvest, and you are not to gather the grapes of your untended vine; it is to be a year of complete rest for the land.