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Biblical Jubilee

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The release and return to ancestral holding in Leviticus 25 after seven cycles of seven years.

Contemporary conceptual illustration: family fields and an untied cord evoke land return and release in ancient law. Not an identified archaeological site or a documented historical scene; IL Archive, CC0
Contemporary conceptual illustration: family fields and an untied cord evoke land return and release in ancient law. Not an identified archaeological site or a documented historical scene; IL Archive, CC0Contemporary conceptual illustration: IL Archive / CC0 · CC0

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Leviticus 25 proclaims a fiftieth-year Jubilee with return of family land and certain impoverished Israelite servants. Walled-city houses and enslaved outsiders are treated differently. Unlike Deuteronomy 15, the chapter does not expressly cancel monetary loans; later interpreters joined the two texts in different ways. [4][5][8]

References and notes

  1. Deuteronomy 15:1–18, Hebrew text and JPS translation Deuteronomy 15:1–18, Hebrew and JPS 1917 Return to the text ↑
  2. Leviticus 25 in full, Hebrew text and JPS translation Leviticus 25:1–55, Hebrew and JPS 1917 Return to the text ↑
  3. Bartos and Levinson, JBL article, selected pp. 351–368 Michael Bartos and Bernard M. Levinson, JBL 132 (2013), pp. 351–371, embedded at PDF pp. about 148–169; especially print pp. 361–368 Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 12 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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IL Archive, «Biblical Jubilee», Edition 2, https://ilarchive.com/en/entities/biblical-jubilee