BEFORE and for thy stranger that neighbour's hand, ye shall
sojourneth with thee,
not oppress one ano-

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7 And for thy cattle, ther: and for the beast that

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i ver. 17.

1 Sam. 12. 3, 4.

Mic. 2. 2.

k 15 According to the ch. 19. 13. are in thy land, shall all number of years after the the increase thereof be jubile thou shalt buy of 1 Cor. 6. 8. thy neighbour, and accord-ch. 27. 18, ing unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee:

meat.

8 ¶ And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space

16 According to the
of the seven sabbaths of multitude of
years thou
years shall be unto thee shalt increase the price
forty and nine years.
thereof, and according to

9 Then shalt thou cause the fewness of years thou
the trumpet † of the jubile shalt diminish the price of
to sound on the tenth day it for according to the
of the seventh month, in number of the years of the
the day of atonement shall fruits doth he sell unto
ye make the trumpet sound thee.
throughout all your land.

d Isai. 61. 2. the fiftieth

23.

m ver. 43.
ch. 19. 14, 32.

17 Ye shall not there- ver. 14. 10 And ye shall hallow fore oppress one another; and year, pro- but thou shalt fear thy claim liberty throughout God: for I am the LORD all the land unto all the your God. inhabitants thereof: it shall 18 ¶n Wherefore ye be a jubile unto you; and shall do my statutes, and ye shall return every man keep my judgments, and unto his possession, and do them; and ye shall ye shall return every man dwell in the land in safety. Ps. 4. 8. unto his family.

e

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 Numb. 36. 4. jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

shall

Pye
and

19 And the land
yield her fruit, and
shall eat your fill,
dwell therein in safety.
20 And if ye shall say,
What shall we eat the
seventh year? behold, we
shall not sow, nor gather
in our increase:

21 Then I will s com-
mand my blessing upon
you in the sixth year, and
it shall bring forth fruit
for three years.

☐ ch. 19. 37.

ch. 26. 5.

Deut. 12. 10.

Prov. 1. 33.

Jer. 23. 6.

22 And ye shall sow 2 Kings 19. 14 And if thou sell the eighth year, and eat ought unto thy neighbour, yet of old fruit until the or buyest ought of thy ninth year; until her fruits

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|| Or, to be quite cut off. + Heb. for cutting off.

* Deut. 32. 43.

2 Chron. 7. 20. Ps. 85. 1.

come in ye shall eat of ever to him that bought
the old store.
it throughout his genera-
23 The land shall not tions: it shall not go out
be sold for ever: for in the jubile.
the land is mine; for ye
are strangers and sojourn-
ers with me.

Joel 2. 18. & of

3. 2.

1 Chron. 29.

15.

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31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may + Heb. re

demption be

24 And in all the land your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the be redeemed, and they longeth unto shall go out in the jubile.

Ps. 39. 12. & land.

119. 19.

1 Pet. 2. 11.

2 Ruth 2. 20. & 4. 4, 6.

2, 9, 12.

25 If thy brother be

it.

35 2.

&c.

32 Notwithstanding the See Numb. waxen poor, and hath sold cities of the Levites, and Josh. 21. 2, away some of his possession, the houses of the cities See Ruth 3. and if any of his kin of their possession, may Jer. 32. 7, 8. come to redeem it, then the Levites redeem at any shall he redeem that which time. his brother sold. 33 And if a man pur-Or, one of 26 And if the man have chase of the Levites, then deem them. none to redeem it, and the house that was sold, +himself be able to re- and the city of his pos

+ Heb. his hand hath

attained and deem it;

found sufficiency,

ch. 5. 7.

b ver. 50, 51,

52.

e ver. 13.

the Levites re

session, *shall go out in ver. 23. 27 Then let him count the year of jubile: for the the years of the sale there- houses of the cities of the of, and restore the over- Levites are their possession plus unto the man to whom among the children of Ishe sold it; that he may rael. return unto his possession.

36, 37.

hand faileth.

strengthen.
* Deut. 15. 7,
8.
Ps. 37. 26. &

34 But the field of the 'See Acts 4. 28 But if he be not able suburbs of their cities may to restore it to him, then not be sold; for it is their that which is sold shall perpetual possession. remain in the hand of him 35 And if thy brother that hath bought it until be waxen poor, and +fallen + Heb. his the year of jubile: and in decay with thee; then + Heb. in the jubile it shall go thou shalt + relieve him: out, and he shall return yea, though he be a stranunto his possession. ger, or a sojourner; that 41. 1. & 112. he may live with thee. Prov. 14. 31. 36 h Take thou no usury Acts 11. 29. of him, or increase: but Rom. 12. 18. fear thy God; that thy Exod. 22. brother may live with thee. 37 Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.

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

30 And if it be not re-
deemed within the space
of a full year, then the
house that is in the walled 38 I am the LORD
city shall be established for your God, which brought

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1491.

BEFORE

CHRIST 1491.

shall serve

CHRIST you forth out of the land your children after you, to of Egypt, to give you the inherit them for a posland of Canaan, and to be session; they shall be + Heb. ye your God. your bondmen for ever: yourselves but over your brethren the with them, children of Israel, "ye shall ☐ ver. 43. not rule one over another with rigour.

Exod. 21. 2.

Deut. 15. 12.

39 ¶ And if thy brother 1 Kings 9. 22. that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not thyself with compel him to serve as a bondservant:

2 Kings 4. 1.
Neh. 5. 5.
Jer. 34. 14.
+ Heb. serve

him with the service, &c. ver. 46.

Exod. 1. 14.

27. 7. & 30.8.

40 But as an hired serJer. 25. 14. & vant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he Exod. 21.3. and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and "unto the possession of his fathers shall be return.

n ver. 28.

。 ver. 55. Rom. 6. 22.

ver. 39.

hand obtain,

&c. ver. 26. * ver. 25, 35.

47 And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by + Heb. his thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself 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 redeem him:

49 Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may re

42 For they are my deem him, or any that is 1 Cor. 7. 23. servants, which I brought nigh of kin unto him of

forth out of the land of his family may redeem him;
Egypt: they shall not be

+ Heb with sold as bondmen.

the sale of a
bondman.

P Ephes. 6. 9.
Col. 4. 1.

a ver. 46.
Exod. 1. 13.
r ver. 17.

21.

Mal. 3. 5.

43 P Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but Ishalt fear thy God.

44 Both thy bondmen, Exod. 1. 17, and thy bondmaids, which Deut. 25. 18. thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

y Neh. 5. 5.

• Isai. 56.3, 6. 45 Moreover of the 51 If there be yet many
children of the strangers years behind, according un-
that do sojourn among you, to them he shall give again
of them shall ye buy, and the price of his redemption.
of their families that are out of the money that he
with you, which they be- was bought for.
gat in your land: and they
shall be your

Isai. 14. 2.

sion.

52 And if there remain your posses- but few years unto the year of jubile, then he

46 And ye shall take shall count with him, and them as an inheritance for according unto his years

Isai. 16. 14. &

21. 16.

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shall he give him again the
price of his redemption.

53 And as a yearly hired
servant shall he be with

:

then he shall go out in
the year of jubile, both he,
and his children with him.

с

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ver. 41.

e ver. 42.

55 For unto me the Exod. 21. 2, 3.
him and the other shall children of Israel are ser-
not rule with rigour over vants; they are my ser-
vants whom I brought forth
out of the land of Egypt:
I am the LORD

him in thy sight.

54 And if he be not
in these years,

Or, by these

means.

redeemed

your

God.

PRAYER. LET US PRAY, that we may read the Gospel in the Law, and the
Law in the Gospel: that, because heaven and hell are the continuance of that
state of soul in which we live and die, we may begin the happiness of heaven
while we are still upon earth, by delighting in God's Law, by hating the bondage
of evil, and every act of sin; by rejoicing in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free; and by beginning the resumption of our inheritance in heaven
by faith in the Redeemer, who has purchased it for man by His blood.
ALMIGHTY and merciful Father, who didst reveal Thy one will of holiness, and
promise, to Thy servants of the Church of Israel in the times of old by the
shadows, types, and emblems of Thy Law; and who hast revealed the same
will to us Thy servants of the Church of Christ in the simpler and plainer pages
of Thy Gospel; grant to us, we beseech Thee, such love to the whole Word of
God, and such delight in the study of the pages of Thy Scriptures from the
beginning to the end of Thy sacred revelation, that we may delight to mark the
earlier beams of the rising of the Sun of Righteousness; to watch His increasing
glory, till the shadows have passed away; and to anticipate the fulness of the
brightness and glory of Christ, both within our own souls at present, and in the
accomplishment of all Thy promises, both of the Law and the Gospel, in the
world beyond the grave.-As Thy servant Moses was commanded to teach Thy
people Israel, while they were still in the wilderness, to observe the Sabbath of
rest on every seventh year of their sojourning in their earthly Canaan, so grant
to us who are still travelling to a better Canaan, through the wearisome
wilderness of the present life of suffering, sin, and sorrow; that we also, before
we pass the river of death, and take possession of the heavenly Canaan, may
become more and more prepared for the rest which remaineth for the people of
God. We believe that the misery of banishment from Thy presence hereafter,
and the fulness of the joy which shall be perfected in Thy presence hereafter,
begin now, even now, in the wilderness of life; and we pray Thee so to grant
us Thy grace, that now, before we die, we may welcome the convictions, the
consolations, and the comforts, of Thy Holy Spirit within us. Prepare us for
the Sabbath of rest. So may we delight in Thy Law, which commands us to
begin on earth the rest of heaven, that the message of the Gospel of Christ be
to us as the trumpet of the Jubilee, speaking liberty to the captive, and the
restoration of his lost inheritance to the poor and afflicted Israelite. Holy Lord
God! enable us to love the freedom from the bondage of wilful sin, which has
hitherto enslaved us. Break the bonds of all sin asunder, and cast away its cords
from us.
May we stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and never bow down our necks to the yoke of misery and evil which Thou hast
broken! As the lost inheritance was restored to the Israelite in the year of
Jubilee, so restore to us the inheritance of heaven, which our kinsman and

Redeemer hath purchased with His most precious blood. And not only after the death of the body may this our lost inheritance be restored to us, but so may its restoration be begun in the present life, that as Adam, our father, when he walked in Paradise with Thee, rejoiced, before his fall from God, to commune with the Lord God; we also may meet God in the paradise of a renewed heart, and a pardoned soul, and hold communion with our Lord God, in peaceful praise, and joyful hope, and in all the blessedness of reconciliation between God and the soul. As the redeemer of the inheritance of the Israelite was his kinsman and his friend, so may we believe and know that the Son of God is our Brother, and the Friend that loveth more than a brother. As the redeemer of the inheritance of the Israelite in the year of jubilee purchased back the inheritance, and gave it to his kinsman; so, Lord, and Saviour, and Redeemer of the world, we thank Thee for that precious blood-shedding, wherewith our lost inheritance was restored to us, and purchased back for us, and granted to our unworthy souls, that we might hold communion with our God and Father on earth, and in heaven. And because not even the blood of Christ can save us from the slavery of sin, and the loss of our inheritance, unless we value our spiritual freedom, and prize the holy inheritance which our father lost, ever be with us, Holy Spirit of God, to make us love the liberty of the child, and to hate the bondage of the slave. Be with us, to make us earnestly and passionately desire and long for the restoration to our souls of that holy state, in which communion with God shall be our best blessing, in which prayer shall be our delight, and praise our food, and love and peace our ceaseless and unchanging rest. Never let us believe that Christ has died to give us back a spiritual inheritance which we may despise, and a spiritual happiness which we may reject at our pleasure, for the follies or the allurements of a vain and perishing world. Give us holiness of heart as the pledge and earnest of heaven. Now, even now, may we begin with inward peace and joy, and hatred of all evil, to possess the rest which remaineth for the people of God. Now, even now, O Holy Spirit, dwell Thou within us, and sanctify and bless us, that the inheritance of heaven may be ours, in holy and sacred anticipation of the day when prayer shall be turned to praise, and all the imperfections of our earthly gratitude, love, and communion, be changed to the perfections that can only be attained in heaven. We ask all, not in our own name, but in the Name and for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord.