So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
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- WEB You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- KJV And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
- NKJV And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
- NASB So you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
- NLT Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan.
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The fiftieth year was made holy, proclaiming liberty throughout the land, with everyone returning to their property and family. It was a year of release and restoration.
Overview
In the Jubilee, debts tied to land were cancelled, the enslaved went free, and ancestral inheritance was restored to each family. This prevented permanent poverty and the concentration of wealth, reflecting God's justice and mercy. Jesus proclaimed a greater Jubilee in his ministry, announcing liberty to captives and the favorable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18-19).
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- Jer 34:8After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
- Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
- 1 Pet 2:16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
- Lev 25:13In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
- Isa 61:1–3The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- Exod 20:2“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Gal 4:25Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
- Rom 6:17–18But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
- Ps 146:7He executes justice for the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free,
- Luke 1:74deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear,
- 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- Luke 4:16–21Then Jesus came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath. And when He stood up to read,
- John 8:32–36Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
- Zech 9:11–12As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
- Num 36:2–9saying, “When the LORD commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, He also commanded him to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.
- Jer 34:13–17“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:
- 2 Pet 2:19–20They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
- Isa 49:24–25Can the plunder be snatched from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
- Ezra 1:3Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.
- Isa 49:9to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
- Lev 25:33–34So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
- Lev 25:26–28Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
- Lev 27:17–24If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, the price will stand according to your valuation.
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