Leviticus 25:10

Easy To Read Version

You will make the 50th year a special year. You will announce freedom for all the people living in your country. This time will be called ‘Jubilee.’ [424] Each of you will go back to his own property. [425] And each of you will go back to his family.

Cross References

Ezra 1:3

The Lord is the God of Israel, the God that is in Jerusalem. If any of God’s people are living among you, then I pray God will bless them. You must let them go to Jerusalem in the country of Judah. You must let them go build the Lord’s temple.

Psalm 146:7

The Lord does right things for people\par who have been hurt.\par God gives food to hungry people.\par The Lord frees people locked in prison.\par

Exodus 20:2

“I am the Lord [123] your God. I led you out of the land of Egypt where you were slaves. {So you must obey these commands:}

Isaiah 49:9

You will tell the prisoners,\par ‘Come out of your prison!’\par You will tell the people that are in darkness,\par ‘Come out of the dark!’\par The people will eat while traveling.\par They will have food even on empty hills.\par

Isaiah 63:4

I chose a time to punish people.\par Now the time has come for me\par to save and protect my people.\par

Jeremiah 34:10

So all the leaders of Judah and all the people accepted this agreement. Every person would free their male and female slaves and no longer keep them as slaves. Every person agreed, and so all the slaves were set free.

Jeremiah 34:8

King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem to give freedom to all the Hebrew slaves. A message from the Lord came to Jeremiah after Zedekiah had made that agreement.

Ezekiel 46:17

But if the ruler gives a gift from part of his land to one of his slaves, the gift will belong to the slave only until the year of freedom. {\cf2\super [460]} Then the gift will go back to the ruler. Only the ruler’s sons will keep a gift of land from the ruler.

Leviticus 25:11

The 50th year will be a special celebration [426] for you. Don’t plant seeds. Don’t harvest the crops that grow by themselves. Don’t gather grapes from the vines that are not trimmed.

Leviticus 25:13

In the year of Jubilee, each person will go back to his own property.

Leviticus 25:41

Then he can leave you. He can take his children and go back to his family. He can go back to the property of his ancestors. [435]

Leviticus 25:54

“That person will become free, even if no one buys him back. At the year of Jubilee [439] he and his children will become free.

Luke 1:74

power of our enemies,\par so that we could serve him without fear.\par

2 Corinthians 3:17

The Lord is the Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Galatians 4:25

So Hagar is like Mount Sinai in Arabia. She is a picture of the earthly \{Jewish\} city of Jerusalem. This city is a slave, and all its people (the Jews) are slaves \{to the law\}.

Galatians 5:13

My brothers and sisters, God called you to be free. But don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do the things that please your sinful selves. But serve each other with love.

1 Peter 2:16

Live like free men. But don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live like you are serving God.