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the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
spake. See note on Leviticus 5:14.
mount Sinai. See note in title "Leviticus"; not out of the tabernacle.
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children. Hebrew sons.
When, &c. See note on Leviticus 14:34.
keep. sabbath. Hebrew sabbath. sabbatizing. Figure of speech Polyptoton. App-6. For emphasis. keep. sacred sabbath.
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Leviticus 25:4 open_in_new
sabbath of rest. See note on Exodus 16:23.
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Leviticus 25:5 open_in_new
undressed. unpruned.
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Leviticus 25:6 open_in_new
sabbath. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of the Adjunct), App-6, for the fruits of the seventh year.
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Leviticus 25:7 open_in_new
increase. gain or profit. Hebrew. tebu'ah. So in verses: Leviticus 25:12; Leviticus 25:20. not in verses: Leviticus 25:16; Leviticus 25:36; Leviticus 25:37.
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seven sabbaths of years.. x. = 49. See App-10.
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trumpet. a curved horn of jubilee, i.e. of loud or joyful sound. Hebrew. yobel. First jubilee; the last at the Nativity (the 29th).
atonement. See note on Exodus 29:33.
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hallow-set apart. Hebrew. chadash. See note on Exodus 3:5.
proclaim. cause public notice to be given.
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holy. See note on Exodus 3:5.
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man. Heb 'ish. App-14.
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oppress. overreach.
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Leviticus 25:15 open_in_new
According. in proportion. The estimation of value regulated by nearness of the jubilee. (So our estimation of value of earthly things governed by our sense of the nearness of Christ's coming.)
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safety. confidence.
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Leviticus 25:20 open_in_new
What... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. (A lesson for us. God's "I will" the answer to our "What? ").
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
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for ever. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Whole), App-6, as we say "in perpetuity". absolutely or beyond recovery.
the land is Mine. Compare Exodus 15:17; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 14:25; Jeremiah 2:7; Psalms 10:16; Psalms 78:54.
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Leviticus 25:24 open_in_new
grant. give.
redemption. repurchase. Hebrew. g'aal. See note on Exodus 6:6.
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Leviticus 25:25 open_in_new
If. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "And if".
waxen poor. brought low.
any of his kin. his goel, or redeemer, next of kin. See note on Exodus 6:6.
redeem. Hebrew. g'aal, buy back. See note on Exodus 6:6.
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Leviticus 25:26 open_in_new
none to redeem it. no redeemer.
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Leviticus 25:28 open_in_new
return. The twelve loaves of Leviticus 2. were. witness as to the People; the jubilee (Leviticus 25) as to the Land.
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Leviticus 25:29 open_in_new
within. whole year. within days, "days" being put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Part), for. whole year of days. App-6.
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Leviticus 25:30 open_in_new
the walled city. a city that hath walls.
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Leviticus 25:32 open_in_new
the cities of the Levites. Compare the forty-eight cities, Numbers 35:1-8; Joshua 21:1-8.
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Leviticus 25:33 open_in_new
if. man purchase of the Levites. Should be "if one of the Levites should not redeem".
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Leviticus 25:34 open_in_new
their. Some codices, with Targum of Onkelos, have "your".
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Leviticus 25:35 open_in_new
fallen in decay. "his hands have become shaky" or become feeble.
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Leviticus 25:36 open_in_new
usury (Hebrew. nashak), is. charge on money.
increase (Hebrew. tarbith or marbith) is. charge on goods. See notes on Leviticus 25:7 with Leviticus 26:4. These were the definitions of the authorities of the second temple.
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Leviticus 25:38 open_in_new
and to be your God. Jehovah became their God, by giving them Canaan. Compare Leviticus 26:45.
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Leviticus 25:39 open_in_new
sold, as in 2 Kings 4:1.
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Leviticus 25:42 open_in_new
brought forth. Note the four occurrences of this expression in these two Chapter s: Leviticus 26:13, brought out to be free men (in relation to the Egyptians); Leviticus 25:42 (in relation to fellow-Israelites); Leviticus 25:38, to be inheritors; and Leviticus 25:55, to be Jehovah '. servants.
as bondmen. Hebrew "with the sale of. bondman": i.e. as "bondmen [are sold]".
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may redeem. Compare Nehemiah 5:8.