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The year of jubile.

Before CHRIST 1491.

+ Heb. rest.
a Exod. 23.
10. See ch.

26. 34, 35-
2 Chron. 36.

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LEVITICUS.
and say unto them, When ye come into
the land which I give you, then shall the
land + keep
"a sabbath unto the LORD.

3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field,
and six years thou shalt prune thy vine-
yard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

b2 Kings 19. 5 That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, leof thy neither gather the grapes † of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

separation.

+ Heb. loud of sound.

27.

6 And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourn eth with thee,

7 And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

8¶ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.

9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet tof the jubile to sound on the tenth day ch. 23. 24 of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

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10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout Jer. 31. 8, 15, 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.

e ver. 13.

Numb. 36.4.

f ver. 5.

g ver. 6, 7.

b ver. 10. ch. 27. 24.

11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: "ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

13 In the year of this jubile ye shall Numb. 36.4. return every man unto his possession. 14¶ And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one

i ver. 17.

ch. 19. 13.

1 Sam. 12. 3, another: 4. Mic. 2. 2.

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25 If thy brother be waxen poor, and
hath sold away some of his possession,
and if any of his kin come to redeem it,
then shall he redeem that which his bro-a
ther sold.

26 And if the man have none to redeem
it, and +himself be able to redeem it;
27 Then let him count the years of
the sale thereof, and restore the overplus
unto the man to whom he sold it; that he
may return unto his possession.

29.15.P.3
Pet. 2. 11.
Ruth 2.25
See Ruth

12. & 119. 15

& 4.4, 6.

3.2, 9, 12. Jer. 32. 7,8

+ Heb. his hand hath

attained an cincy. bver. 50, 5

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52.

28 But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the ju- ver. 13. bile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

29 ¶ And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.

30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

31 But the houses of the villages which i Cor. 6. 8. 15 According to the number of years have no wall round about them shall be kch. 27. 18, after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy counted as the fields of the country: neighbour, and according unto the num-+they may be redeemed, and they shall ber of years of the fruits he shall sell go out in the jubile. unto thee:

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16 According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee.

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Rom. 6. 22.
↑ Heb, with

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41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and "unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

Ephes. 6.9. q
Col + 1.
§ ver. 46.
Esad. 1. 13.

Before CHRIST

1491.

Blessings promised to obedience. kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself. 50 And he shall reckon with him that z ver. 26. bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to a Job.1. the time of an hired servant shall it be & 21. 16. with him.

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51 If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

52 And if there remain but few years unto the year of jubile, then he shall count with him, and according unto his years shall he give him again the price of his redemption.

53 And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

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Isai. 16. 14

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54 And if he be not redeemed in these
years, then he shall go out in the year of
jubile, both he, and his children with him.
55 For unto me the children of Israele
are servants; they are my servants whom
I brought forth out of the land of Egypt:
I am the LORD your God.

ver. 42.

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a Exod. 20.4, 5. Deut. 5.8.

1 Of idolatry. 2 Religiousness. 3 A blessing 16. 22. &
CHAP. XXVI.
to them that keep the commandments. 14 27. 15. Ps.
A curse to those that break them. 40 God 97.7-
Or, pillar.

promiseth to remember them that repent. 1 Or, figured

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stone.

42 For they are my servants, which I YE shall make you no idols nor gra- + Heb. 4.

Cor.723 brought forth out of the land of Egypt: The sale of a they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but 'shalt fear thy God. 44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bond? ver. 17. maids, which thou shalt have, shall be of Exod. 1.17 the heathen that are round about you; 18. Mal. 3-5 of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

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46 And *ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to *Hinherit them for a possession; +they shall ys be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, "ye shall not rule one over another with rigour. 47 And if a sojourner or stranger bitwax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself 1.25-35- unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family: 48 After that he is sold he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may

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ven image, neither rear you up a stone of pic ||standing image, neither shall ye set up b ch. 19.30. any image of stone in your land, to c Deut. 11. bow down unto it: for I am the LORD 13, 14, 15. & your God.

2 b Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and re-
verence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
3¶If ye walk in my statutes, and
keep my commandments, and do them;
4 Then I will give you rain in due
season, and the land shall yield her in-
crease, and the trees of the field
yield their fruit.

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6 And I will give peace in the land,
and ye shall lie down, and none
make you afraid: and I will rid 1evil
beasts out f the land, neither shall
sword go through your land.

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7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and
they shall fall before you by te sword.
8 And "five of you shall chase an hun-
dred, and an hundred of you shall put ten
thousand to flight: and your enemies
shall fall before you by the sword.

9 For I will have respect unto you,
and make you fruitful, and multiply

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a. 35. Ezek. 34. 25. Zeph. 3. 13. Heh, cause

Hos. 2. 18.

to cease

1 2 Kings 17. 25. Ezek. S

17. & 14. 15

m Ezek. 14. 17.

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2 Kings 13.

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Curses threatened for disobedience.

Before

1491.

r Exod. 25.8. &29-45.Josh.

2. Ezek. 37.

26, 27, 28.

Rev. 21. 3.

s ch. 20. 23. Deut. 32. 19.

t 2 Cor. 6.16.

r

CHRIST

y ver. 21, 24. Isai. 59.18.

LEVITICUS.
Plagues threatened.
27 And 'if ye will not for all this hear-Before
ken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 1491.
28 Then I will walk contrary unto you
also 'in fury; and I, even I, will chastise
you seven times for your sins.
29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your
sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall
ye eat.

CHRIST you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat old store, and qch. 25. 22. bring forth the old because of the new. 11' And I will set my tabernacle among 22.19. Ps. 76. you: and my soul shall not 'abhor you. 12 t And I will walk among you, and "will be your God, and shall be my people. ye 13 I am the LORD your God, which Exod. 6.7. brought you forth out of the land of should not be their bondJer. 7. 23. & Egypt, that ye and I have broken the bands of wch. 25. 38, your yoke, and made you go upright. 14¶But if ye will not hearken unto me, Ezek. 34.27. and will not do all these commandments; 15 And if ye shall ' despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

11. 4. & 30.

22. Ezek. 11. men;

20. & 3. 28.

42, 55

x Jer. 2. 20.

y Deut. 28.

15. Lam. 2.

17. Mal. 2.2.

2 ver. 43.
2 Kings 17.

15.

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30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall a abhor you. 31 And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

32 And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint + over you terror, con33 And 'I will scatter you among the sumption, and the burning ague, that heathen, and will draw out a sword after shall consume the eyes, and cause sor-you: and your land shall be desolate, row of heart: and ye shall sow your seed and your cities waste. in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and "ye shall flee when none 14. Jer. 19.7. pursueth you.

f Deut. 28. 25. Judg. 2.

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18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you i seven times more for your sins.

19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

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20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for "your land shall not yield m P. 127.1. her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

Isai. 49. 4.

Deut. 11.

17. & 28. 18. Hag. 1. 10.

21 And if ye walk | contrary unto me, Or, at all and will not hearken unto me; I will with me, and bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.

adrentures

so ver. 24.

o Deut. 32. 24. 2 Kings

22 I will also send wild beasts among 17. 25. Ezek. you, which shall rob you of your children, 5.17. & 14-15- and destroy your cattle, and make you 5. few in number; and 'your high ways shall 5. Isai. 33. 8. be desolate.

2 Chron. 15.

Lam. 1.4.

Zech. 7. 14.

23 And if ye will not be reformed by 5.3. Amos me by these things, but will walk contrary

q Jer. 2. 30.

4.6-12.

r 2 Sam. 22. 27. Ps. 18. 26.

s Ezek. 5. 17. & 6. 3. & 14.

& 33. 2.

unto me;

24 Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.

25 And I will bring a sword upon 17. & 29.& you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my Numb. 14. Covenant: and when ye are gathered to12. Deut. 28. gether within your cities, I will send the 12. & 24. 10. pestilence among you; and ye shall be Amos 4 10. delivered into the hand of the enemy.

21. Jer. 14.

& 29. 17, 18.

u Ps. 105. 16. Isai. 31.

26" And when I have broken the staff Ezek 16. of your bread, ten women shall bake your 13.5.16.14 bread in one oven, and they shall deliver Isai. 9. 20. you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Mic. 6. 14.

Hag. 1. 6.

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40 'If they shall confess their ini- 36. 31. Hos quity, and the iniquity of their fathers, 10.9 with their trespass which they trespassed 7. 1 Kings 8. against me, and that also they have walk- 33 35, 47ed contrary unto me;

41 And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

42 Then will I "remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

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44 And yet for all that, when they be Dent in the land of their enemies, "I will not Rin cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God.

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Of things dedicated.

good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

12 And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: † as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.

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13 But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof ever. 15, 19. unto thy estimation.

14 ¶ And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto the LORD, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

15 And if he that sanctified it will a ver. 136redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.

16 And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: || an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

17 If he sanctify his field from the

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, year of jubile, according to thy estimation

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, Samb.6.2 and say unto them, "When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be + Hà. 1. 1 for the LORD by thy estimation.

*re Judg. 11. 231, 39

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3¶ And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall Exod. 30 be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

4 And if it be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels.

5 And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

6 And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

7 And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

8 But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

9 And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.

10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a

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18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto e ch. 25. 15, him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.

19 And if he that sanctified the field of ver. 13will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.

20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

28, 31.

21 But the field, when it goeth out in g ch.25. 10, the jubile, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted; 'the possession thereof h ver. 28. shall be the priest's.

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i Numb. 18 14. Ezek.

22 And if a man sanctify unto the LORD 44-29. a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

k ch. 25. 10, 25.

23 1Then the priest shall reckon unto ver. 18. him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.

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n Exod. 30.

24 In the year of the jubile the field m ch. 25. 28. shall return unto him of whom it was 13. NuLib. bought, even to him to whom the pos- 16. Ezek. session of the land did belong.

3.47. & 18.

45. 12. + Heb. first

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25 And all thy estimations shall be ac- born, S. cording to the shekel of the sanctuary: Exod. 13. "twenty gerahs shall be the shekel. 39. Numb 26 TOnly the t°firstling of the beasts,

18. 17. Deut.

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CHRIST 1491.

13.

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Before which should be the LORD's firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the LORD'S.

ver. 21.

27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall redeem it according to thine p ver. 11, 12, estimation, and shall add a fifth part of it thereto; or if it be not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to thy estimation. 28 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.

Josh. 6. 17, 18, 19

r Numb. 21. 2,3.

29 'None devoted, which shall be deGen. 28. 22. voted of men, shall be redeemed; but 24-1 Chron. shall surely be put to death.

Numb.18.21,

31. 5, 6, 12. Neh. 13. 12.

Mai. 3. 8, 10.

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a Exod. 19.

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10. 11, 12.

22.

30 ¶ And all the tithe of the land,

to number the people.

CHRIST 1491.

whether of the seed of the land, or of the Before
fruit of the tree, is the LORD's: it is holy
unto the LORD.

31 And if a man will at all redeem ver. 13.
ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto
the fifth part thereof.

32 And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever "passeth under the rod, the tenth shall u See Jer. 33 be holy unto the LORD.

13. Ezek. 20 37. Mic. 7.

14.

33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: ver. 10. and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.

34 These are the commandments, y ch. 26. 46. which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

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17 And Moses and Aaron took these f Exod. 18.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses & in men which are expressed by their names:

the wilderness of Sinai, "in the b Exod. 25. tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

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5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you: of the tribe of Reuben; Elizur the son of Shedeur.

6 Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

7 Of Judah; Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

8 Of Issachar; Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

9 Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon. 10 Of the children of Joseph: of Ephraim; Elishama the son of Ammihud: of Manasseh; Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 11 Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.

12 Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammi

shaddai.

13 Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
14 Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

20 ¶ And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

24 ¶ of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

21, 25.

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