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. 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. You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
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“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another. 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. 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. You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
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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.
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.
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.
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According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
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.
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
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According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.
According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of crops doth he sell unto thee.
And ye shall not wrong one another; but thou shalt fear thy God; for I am the LORD your God.
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Cross-references (31)
- Leviticus 19:14 (v17) “ ‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
- Leviticus 19:32 (v17) “ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
- Exodus 20:20 (v17) Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”
- Leviticus 25:43 (v17) You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.
- Genesis 42:18 (v17) Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.
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- Leviticus 27:18-23 (v15) But if he dedicates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain to the…
- Philippians 4:5 (v15) Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
- Genesis 20:11 (v17) Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
- Genesis 22:12 (v17) He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son,…
- Genesis 39:9 (v17) No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do…
- Leviticus 25:14 (v17) “ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
- Leviticus 25:27 (v16) then let him reckon the years since its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his property.
- Leviticus 25:51 (v16) If there are yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
- Deuteronomy 25:18 (v17) how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t…
- 1 Samuel 12:24 (v17) Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.
- 2 Chronicles 19:7 (v17) Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons,…
- Nehemiah 5:9 (v17) Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our…
- Nehemiah 5:15 (v17) But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver;…
- Psalms 19:9 (v17) The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Proverbs 1:7 (v17) The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 22:22 (v17) Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;
- Jeremiah 7:5-6 (v17) For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; if you don’t…
- Jeremiah 22:16 (v17) He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Malachi 3:5 (v17) I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the…
- Luke 12:5 (v17) But I will warn you whom you should fear. Fear him who after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
- Acts 9:31 (v17) So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the…
- Acts 10:2 (v17) a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.
- Acts 10:35 (v17) but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.
- Romans 3:18 (v17) “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
- Romans 11:20 (v17) True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (v17) that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv15–16 If the Jubilee to come be near, thou shalt…
If the Jubilee to come be near, thou shalt sell better cheap: if it be far off, dearer.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv15, 17 Lev 25:15 According to the number of years after…
Lev 25:15 According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, [and] according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:
Ver. 15. Years of the fruits.] The land was not properly sold, but the fruits and revenues thereof.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv15–16 of years of fruits, or, of fruitful years; for…
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of years of fruits, or, of fruitful years; for there were some unfruitful years, to wit, such wherein they were not allowed to sow or reap, &c.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv15–17 According to the number of years after the jubilee…
According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour,.... That is, reckoning how many years had past since the last jubilee, and how many there were to come to the next, and so give as many years' purchase as were yet to come:
and according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee; only care was to be taken, that as many years as were sabbatical ones, which were not years of fruit, should be deducted out of the account by the seller; since these were years the buyer could have no profit by the estate, and therefore it was not reasonable that such years should be reckoned into the purchase; and hence the Jewish writers gather, that when a man had sold his field, he could not redeem it in less than two years, because a number of years cannot be less than two, and that if even the buyer agreed to it, it might not be done (b).
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(b) Misn. Eracin, c. 9. sect. 1. Maimon. & Bartenora in. ib.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv15–16 Years of fruits - Or, fruitful years; for there…
Years of fruits - Or, fruitful years; for there were some unfruitful years; those wherein they were not allowed to sow or reap.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v15 Verse 15. According to the number of years] The…
Verse 15. According to the number of years] The purchases that were to be made of lands were to be regulated by the number of years unelapsed of the current jubilee. This was something like buying the unexpired term of a lease among us; the purchase is always regulated by the number of years between the time of purchase and the expiration of the term.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv15–16 Lev 25:15. According to the number of years —…
Lev 25:15. According to the number of years — thou shalt buy — The purchase of all lands, houses, or estates, was to be at a price proportionable to the greater or less number of years that remained from the time of the purchase to the next jubilee. Years of fruits — Years in which, having sowed, they reaped the fruits of the land, in opposition to those years in which they were neither allowed to sow nor reap.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v15 The number of years of the fruits - i.…
The number of years of the fruits - i. e. according to the number of harvests. The average value of a yearly crop might of course be estimated, and the sabbatical years were to be deducted from the series.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v17 Ye shall not oppress one another, but thou shalt…
Ye shall not oppress one another, but thou shalt fear thy God--This, which is the same as Lev 25:14, related to the sale or purchase of possessions and the duty of paying an honest and equitable regard, on both sides, to the limited period during which the bargain could stand. The object of the legislator was, as far as possible, to maintain the original order of families, and an equality of condition among the people.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv15, 17 15. The number of years of the fruits —…
15. The number of years of the fruits — The price of the usufruct of the land, not of the fee simple, was calculated on the years of tillage, exclusive of the years of rest, which would deprive the purchaser of a number of crops before the jubilee. Josephus describes the terms on which the buyer resigned the field in the year of jubilee to the original proprietor. The former produced a statement of the value of the crops and of his expenses. If the expenses exceeded in value the income, the balance was paid by the proprietor before the field was restored. But if the balance was on the other side, the proprietor simply took back the field, and the purchaser retained the profit. This arrangement would remove the objection to permanent improvements on the part of the purchaser, while it kept estates from deterioration.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv15, 17 15, 16. The purchase is in fact not of…
15, 16. The purchase is in fact not of the soil, but of the expectation of a greater or less number of years’ fruits.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv15–17 (15) According to the number of years . .…
(15) According to the number of years . . . thou shalt buy.—The promised land, according to the Law, was to be divided by lot in equal parts among the Israelites. The plot which should thus come into the possession of each family is to be absolutely inalienable, and for ever continue to be the property of the descendants of the original possessor. Hence it is here enacted that where a proprietor being pressed by poverty is compelled to sell a field, it could not be bought of him for a longer period than up to the time of the next jubile, when it reverted to the original possessor, or to his family. In purchasing a plot of and the purchaser is to reckon how many years had elapsed since the last jubile, since this would show him the exact period during which he would be entitled to hold it. It thus corresponds to what with us is buying the unexpired term of a lease.
Of thy neighbour.—From this it was deduced that the Israelite who was reduced to poverty could only sell his land to a fellow-Israelite, but not to a Gentile.
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The number of years of the fruit he shall sell.—Whilst the purchaser is to take into consideration the number of years which the lease has still to run, the vendor has to consider how many sabbatical years there will be from the time of the sale till next jubile, since the sale was not so much of the land as of the produce of so many years. Hence the fallow sabbatical years are not to be included. As the plural “number of years “is here used, the authorities during the second Temple concluded that the vendor could not sell it for less than two productive years, exclusive of a sabbatical year, a year of barrenness, and of the first harvest if the purchase was effected shortly before the seventh month, with the ripe produce in the field.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain On v17 (See Scofield "Psa 19:9").
fear
(See Scofield "Psa 19:9").
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v15 General Information:
General Information:
God continues telling Moses what the people must do.
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that can be harvested
This can be stated in active form. AT: "that you can harvest" (See: Active or Passive)
the next Jubilee
"the next year of restoration" or "the next year to return land"
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neighbor
wrong
honor
God
Yahweh
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v15 25:15-16 the number of years: The law did not…
25:15-16 the number of years: The law did not allow the land to be sold in perpetuity. It was God’s, and Israel was simply permitted to use it (25:23). However, if the owner was forced to give it up due to financial distress, it could be leased for up to forty-nine years (until the next jubilee). The price was adjusted according to the length of the lease. At the end of that time, the land was to revert to the family of the original owner.
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