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1Reading 1 Leviticus 25:1–13Chapter page with footnotes →

The Seventh Year

^25:1And the LORD spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying: ²Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land shall shabbat a Shabbat to the LORD.

³Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its produce. ⁴But in the seventh year shall be a Shabbat of Shabbaton for the land, a Shabbat to the LORD; your field you shall not sow, and your vineyard you shall not prune. ⁵The aftergrowth of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your untrimmed vine you shall not gather; a year of Shabbaton it shall be for the land. ⁶And the Shabbat of the land shall be for you for food: for you, and for your bondservant, and for your maidservant, and for your hired one, and for your settler who sojourn with you; ⁷and for your cattle, and for the living thing which is in your land, shall all its produce be for food.

The Year of Jubilee

⁸And you shall number for yourself seven Shabbat periods of years, seven years seven times; and the days of the seven Shabbat periods of years shall be to you, nine and forty years. ⁹Then you shall cause a horn of a loud blast to pass through in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month; in the day of the atonements you shall cause a horn to pass through in all your land.

¹⁰And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants; a Jubilee it shall be to you; and you shall return, a man to his possession, and a man to his family you shall return.

¹¹A Jubilee it is, the fiftieth year shall be to you; you shall not sow, and you shall not reap its aftergrowth, and you shall not gather its untrimmed vines. ¹²For a Jubilee it is, holy it shall be to you; from the field you shall eat its produce.

Return of Property

¹³In this year of the Jubilee you shall return, a man to his possession.

2Reading 2 Leviticus 25:14–18Chapter page with footnotes →

^25:14And when you sell a sale to your fellow, or buy from the hand of your fellow, you shall not oppress a man his brother. ¹⁵By the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your fellow; by the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. ¹⁶According to the abundance of the years you shall increase its purchase price, and according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish its purchase price; for a number of crops he is selling to you.

¹⁷And you shall not oppress a man his fellow, but you shall fear from your God; for I am the LORD your God.

The Blessing of Obedience

¹⁸And you shall do my statutes, and my judgments you shall keep, and you shall do them; and you shall dwell on the land in safety.

3Reading 3 Leviticus 25:19–24Chapter page with footnotes →

^25:19And the land shall give its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction, and you shall dwell in safety upon it.

²⁰And when you say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather our produce; ²¹then I will command my blessing to you in the sixth year, and it shall make the produce for the three years. ²²And you shall sow the eighth year, and eat from the old produce; until the ninth year, until its produce comes in, you shall eat the old.

The Law of Redemption

²³And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for sojourners and settlers are you with me. ²⁴And in all the land of your possession you shall give a redemption for the land.

4Reading 4 Leviticus 25:25–28Chapter page with footnotes →

^25:25When your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possession, then his redeemer, the near one to him, shall come, and shall redeem the sale of his brother. ²⁶And a man, when there is no redeemer for him, and his hand attains and finds enough for its redemption; ²⁷then he shall reckon the years of its sale, and restore the surplus to the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his possession. ²⁸But if his hand has not found enough to restore to him, then his sale shall be in the hand of the buyer of it ad(עד) the year of the Jubilee; and in the Jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.

5Reading 5 Leviticus 25:29–38Chapter page with footnotes →

^25:29And a man, when he sells a house of dwelling in a walled city, then its redemption shall be until the completion of the year of its sale; for days shall its redemption be. ³⁰And if it is not redeemed until the fullness of a complete year for it, then the house which is in the city which has a wall shall stand in perpetuity to the one who bought it throughout his generations; it shall not go out in the Jubilee. ³¹But the houses of the villages which have no wall around them, upon the field of the land shall they be reckoned; a redemption shall be for it, and in the Jubilee it shall go out.

³²And the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, a redemption of perpetuity shall be to the Levites. ³³And he who redeems from the Levites, then the sale of a house and the city of his possession shall go out in the Jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites, it is their possession in the midst of the sons of Israel. ³⁴And the field of the open land of their cities shall not be sold; for a possession of perpetuity it is to them.

When Your Brother Becomes Poor

³⁵And when your brother becomes poor, and his hand wavers with you, then you shall strengthen him; a sojourner and a settler, that he may live with you. ³⁶Take from him no interest or increase, but fear from your God; that your brother may live with you. ³⁷Your money you shall not give to him on interest, and on increase you shall not give your food. ³⁸I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to give to you the land of Canaan, to be to you for God.

6Reading 6 Leviticus 25:39–46Chapter page with footnotes →

A Brother Who Is Sold

^25:39And when your brother becomes poor with you, and is sold to you, you shall not make him serve the service of a bondservant. ⁴⁰As a hired one, as a settler he shall be with you; ad(עד) the year of the Jubilee he shall serve with you. ⁴¹Then he shall go out from with you, he and his sons with him, and he shall return to his family, and to the possession of his fathers he shall return.

⁴²For they are my servants, whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold with the sale of a bondservant. ⁴³You shall not rule over him with harshness, but you shall fear from your God.

⁴⁴And your bondservant and your maidservant whom you have: from the nations which are around you, from them you shall buy bondservant and maidservant. ⁴⁵And also from the sons of the settlers who sojourn with you, from them you shall buy, and from their family which is with you, which they begot in your land; and they shall be to you for a possession. ⁴⁶And you shall make them an inheritance for your sons after you, to inherit as a possession; forever you shall make them serve; but over your brothers, the sons of Israel, a man over his brother, you shall not rule over him with harshness.

7Reading 7 Leviticus 25:47–26:2Chapter page with footnotes →

Redemption of Servants

^25:47And when the hand of a sojourner and settler with you attains wealth, and your brother becomes poor beside him, and is sold to a sojourner, a settler with you, or to an offshoot of a sojourner's family; ⁴⁸after he is sold, a redemption shall be to him; one of his brothers may redeem him; ⁴⁹or his uncle, or his uncle's son may redeem him, or from the kindred of his flesh from his family may redeem him; or his hand has attained, and he is redeemed.

⁵⁰And he shall reckon with the one who bought him from the year of his being sold to him until the year of the Jubilee; and the money of his sale shall be by the number of years, according to the days of a hired one it shall be with him. ⁵¹If yet many are in the years, according to them he shall return his redemption from the money of his purchase. ⁵²And if few remain in the years until the year of the Jubilee, then he shall reckon for him; according to his years he shall return his redemption. ⁵³As a hired one year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness before your eyes.

⁵⁴And if he is not redeemed by these, then he shall go out in the year of the Jubilee, he and his sons with him. ⁵⁵For to me the sons of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

Additional Blessings of Obedience

^26:1You shall not make for yourselves idols, and a graven image or a pillar you shall not raise up for yourselves, and a figured stone you shall not place in your land to bow down upon it; for I am the LORD your God.

²My Shabbat you shall keep, and My sanctuary you shall revere: I am the LORD.

PJeremiah 32:6–27Chapter page with footnotes →

^32:6And Jeremiah said: "The word of the LORD came to me, saying: ⁷Behold, Hanamel son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying: Buy for yourself my field which is in Anathoth, for yours is the judgment of the redemption, to buy it. ⁸And Hanamel son of my uncle came to me, according to the word of the LORD, to the court of the guard, and said to me: Buy now my field which is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin, for yours is the judgment of the inheritance, and yours the redemption; buy it for yourself. And I knew that it was the word of the LORD.

⁹And I bought the field from Hanamel son of my uncle, which is in Anathoth, and I weighed for him the silver, seven shekels and ten of silver. ¹⁰And I wrote in the book and sealed it, and caused witnesses to testify, and weighed the silver in the balances. ¹¹And I took the book of the purchase, the sealed one—the commandment and the statutes—and the open one; ¹²and I gave the book of the purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel my uncle, and before the eyes of the witnesses who wrote in the book of the purchase, before the eyes of all the Jews who were sitting in the court of the guard.

¹³And I commanded Baruch before their eyes, saying: ¹⁴Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these books, this book of the purchase, both the sealed one and this open book, and put them in an earthen vessel, so that they may stand many days. ¹⁵For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards will yet be bought in this land.

Jeremiah Prays for Understanding

¹⁶And I prayed to the LORD, after I gave the book of the purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, saying: ¹⁷Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; nothing is too hard for you;

¹⁸doing kindness to thousands, and repaying the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, the LORD of hosts is his name; ¹⁹great in counsel and mighty in deed; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of man, to give to each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;

²⁰who set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt until this day, and in Israel and among man; and you made for yourself a name, as at this day;

²¹and you brought out your people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror; ²²and you gave to them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

²³and they came and possessed it, but they did not listen to your voice, and in your Torah they did not walk; all that you commanded them to do, they did not do; and you caused all this evil to meet them. ²⁴Behold, the siege-mounds have come to the city to take it, and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword and the famine and the pestilence; and what you spoke has come to pass, and behold, you see it.

²⁵And you, you said to me, the Lord GOD: Buy for yourself the field with silver, and cause witnesses to testify—yet the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans."

The LORD Answers Jeremiah

²⁶And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying: ²⁷Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh; is anything too hard for me?

ALuke 4:16–21Chapter page with footnotes →

The Rejection at Nazareth

^4:16And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up, and entered the synagogue on the day of the sabbatons according to His custom, and stood up to read. ¹⁷And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him, and He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:

¹⁸"The spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to bring good news to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,

¹⁹to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

²⁰And He rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down; and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him. ²¹He began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your ears."