Our Daily Scripture – 2/2/23

SCRIPTURE;  LEVITICUS 25

BIBLE VERSES:

“For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. 4 But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. 5 Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest. 6 Whatever the land yields during the sabbath year will be food for you—for yourself, your male and female servants, and the hired worker and temporary resident who live among you, 7 as well as for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. Whatever the land produces may be eaten.” (Leviticus 25:3-7)

“Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God. I am the Lord your God.  “‘Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live safely in the land. 19 Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.” (Leviticus 25:17-19)

““‘Even if someone is not redeemed in any of these ways, they and their children are to be released in the Year of Jubilee, 55 for the Israelites belong to me as servants. They are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 25:54)

THE SABBATH YEAR (vs. 1-7)

In the 7th year, the Lord is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to the Lord.  No sowing, pruning, reaping or harvesting are allowed.  The Lord is to have a year of rest.  The yields fduring the Sabbath year will be food for all men living there.

THE YEAR OF JUBILEE (vs. 8-54)

Seven Sabbaths of years is equal to 49 years.  On the 50th year if the Year of Jubilee.  Proclaim liberty throughout the land.

RULES OF THE YEAR OF JUBILEE:

  1.  Do not sow, reap or harvest.
  2. Everyone is to return to his own property.  Either one buys or sells the property according to the number of years he is in possession.  Do not take advantage of each other.

RULES ON PROPERTY:

  1.  The land must not be sold permanently.  You must provide redemption of the land.
  2. If a poor man sells his property, his nearest relative is to come and redeem what his countryman has sold.  If he has no one to redeem it for him but he himself prospers and acquires sufficient means to redeem it, he is to determine the value for the years since he sold it and refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it.  He can then go back to his own property.
  3. If the poor man cannot repay the land he sold, the property remained in the possession of the buyer until the year of Jubilee and then he can go back to his property.
  4. A property in a walled city can be redeemed within a year.  If he does not redeem before a year, the property shall belong permanently to the buyer and his descendants.
  5. Houses in open country can be redeemed and they are to be returned in the year of Jubilee.
  6. House of the Levites is redeemable and is to be returned in the year of Jubilee.
  7. Pasture land belonging to the town of Levites must not be sold.  It is their permanent possession.