EMANCIPATION

Passages on this topic · 19

• Leviticus 25:8

  “‘You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.

• Leviticus 25:9

  Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

• Leviticus 25:10

  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.

• Leviticus 25:11

  That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.

• Leviticus 25:12

  For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

• Leviticus 25:13

  “‘In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.

• Leviticus 25:14

  “‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

• Leviticus 25:15

  According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor. According to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.

• Leviticus 25:16

  According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

• Leviticus 25:17

  You shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh your God.

• 2 Chronicles 36:23

  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”

• Ezra 1:1

  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

• Ezra 1:2

  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

• Ezra 1:3

  Whoever 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.

• Ezra 1:4

  Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”

• Jeremiah 34:8

  The 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;

• Jeremiah 34:9

  that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that no one should make bondservants of them, of a Jew his brother.

• Jeremiah 34:10

  All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that no one should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

• Jeremiah 34:11

  but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.