Leviticus 25:13

13 "In this jubilee year every slave will be freed in order to return to his property.

Leviticus 25:13 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 25:13

In the year of this jubilee
In the beginning of it, as Aben Ezra, though not on the first day of Tisri, but the tenth day, the day of atonement, when the trumpet was blown: ye shall return every man unto his possession;
which is repeated from ( Leviticus 25:10 ) ; the reason of which, the Jews say, is to include gifts, and which, according to them, are like sales, and returned in the year of "jubilee"; that is, if a man gave his estate in possession to another, he returned to it, in the year of jubilee, equally as if he had sold it; and therefore they observe the same phrase is twice used by Moses, to include gifts F25: but perhaps the truer reason is, because this was a special business done at this time, and of great importance; the word "return" being so often used, may serve to confirm the sense of the word "jubilee", given previously, (See Gill on Leviticus 25:9).


FOOTNOTES:

F25 Misn. Becorot, c. 8. sect. 10. & Bartenora in ib.

Leviticus 25:13 In-Context

11 That fiftieth year will be your jubilee year. Don't plant or harvest what grows by itself or pick grapes from the vines in the land.
12 The jubilee [year] will be holy to you. You will eat what the field itself produces.
13 "In this jubilee year every slave will be freed in order to return to his property.
14 If you sell anything to your neighbor or buy anything from him, don't take advantage of him.
15 When you buy property from your neighbor, take into account the number of years since the jubilee. Your neighbor must sell it to you taking into account the number of crops [until the next jubilee].
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