7431 Sabbath, sabbatical year
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Just as the seventh day was observed as a day of rest, so the OT regarded every seventh year as a sabbath year, to be set aside for rest.

The sabbath year

As a time for leaving fields fallow

Exodus 23:10-11 See also Leviticus 25:4; Leviticus 26:34; Nehemiah 10:31 An important feature was the opportunity for the poor to benefit from unharvested fields.

As a time for cancelling debts

Deuteronomy 15:1 See also Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 31:10; Nehemiah 10:31

As a time for freeing slaves

Deuteronomy 15:12 See also Jeremiah 34:14

The Year of Jubilee as seven Sabbaths

Leviticus 25:8-12

See also

1653  numbers, 6-10
4206  land
6658  freedom
7447  slavery, in OT
7482  Year of Jubilee



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