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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.
Leviticus 25:10 · New American Standard Bible
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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.
  • BSB 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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Quick answer

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).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 24

  • Jer 34:8The word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
  • Isa 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
  • 1 Pet 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
  • Lev 25:13“‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
  • Isa 61:1–3The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
  • Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
  • Exod 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
  • Gal 4:25For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
  • Rom 6:17–18But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
  • Ps 146:7who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.
  • Luke 1:74to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,
  • 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
  • Luke 4:16–21He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
  • John 8:32–36You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
  • Zech 9:11–12As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
  • Num 36:2–9They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
  • Jer 34:13–17“Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
  • 2 Pet 2:19–20promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  • Isa 49:24–25Shall the plunder be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
  • Ezra 1:3Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
  • Isa 49:9saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
  • Lev 25:33–34The Levites may redeem the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, and it shall be released in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.
  • Lev 25:26–28If a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes prosperous and finds sufficient means to redeem it;
  • Lev 27:17–24If he dedicates his field from the Year of Jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

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Christ at the center

Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.

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