SABBATIC YEAR

Passages on this topic · 45

• Exodus 21:2

  “If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

• Exodus 23:9

  “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 23:10

  “For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

• Exodus 23:11

  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

• Leviticus 26:32

  I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.

• Leviticus 26:33

  I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

• Leviticus 26:34

  Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

• Leviticus 26:35

  As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

• Leviticus 26:36

  “‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.

• Leviticus 26:37

  They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.

• Leviticus 26:38

  You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.

• Leviticus 26:39

  Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.

• Leviticus 26:40

  “‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

• Leviticus 26:41

  I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;

• Deuteronomy 15:1

  At the end of every seven years, you shall cancel debts.

• Deuteronomy 15:2

  This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother; because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

• Deuteronomy 15:3

  Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.

• Deuteronomy 15:4

  However there shall be no poor with you (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it)

• Deuteronomy 15:5

  if only you diligently listen to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you today.

• Deuteronomy 15:6

  For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow. You will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

• Deuteronomy 15:9

  Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand”; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

• Deuteronomy 15:12

  If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

• Deuteronomy 15:13

  When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty.

• Deuteronomy 15:14

  You shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, out of your threshing floor, and out of your wine press. As Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

• Deuteronomy 15:15

  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

• Deuteronomy 15:16

  It shall be, if he tells you, “I will not go out from you,” because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

• Deuteronomy 15:17

  then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also to your female servant you shall do likewise.

• Deuteronomy 15:18

  It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for he has been double value of a hired hand as he served you six years. Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

• Deuteronomy 31:10

  Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,

• Deuteronomy 31:11

  when all Israel has come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

• Deuteronomy 31:12

  Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and the foreigners who are within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

• Deuteronomy 31:13

  and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

• Nehemiah 8:18

  Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. They kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the ordinance.

• Nehemiah 10:31

  and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

• Jeremiah 34:12

  Therefore Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

• Jeremiah 34:13

  “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,

• Jeremiah 34:14

  At the end of seven years, every man of you shall release his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years. You shall let him go free from you; but your fathers didn’t listen to me, and didn’t incline their ear.

• Jeremiah 34:15

  You had now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in every man proclaiming liberty to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name;

• Jeremiah 34:16

  but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’”

• Jeremiah 34:17

  Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

• Jeremiah 34:18

  I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:

• Jeremiah 34:19

  the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;

• Jeremiah 34:20

  I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

• Jeremiah 34:21

  “I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life, and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you.

• Jeremiah 34:22

  Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”