Leviticus 25:1

The Sabbath Year

1 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses on {Mount Sinai}, saying,

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 Then Yahweh spoke to Moses on {Mount Sinai}, saying,

2 "Speak to the {Israelites}, and say to them, 'When you come into the land that I [am about to] give to you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath for Yahweh.

3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield.

4 But in the seventh year it shall be {a Sabbath of complete rest} for the land--a Sabbath for Yahweh; you must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard.

5 You must not reap your harvest's aftergrowth, and you must not harvest the grapes of your unpruned vines--it shall be {a year of complete rest} for the land.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "And"
• [b]. Literally "the mountain of Sinai"