Quotes about Jubilee
So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
— Leviticus 25:10
The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
— Leviticus 25:11
For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
— Leviticus 25:12
In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his own property.
— Leviticus 25:13
You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.
— Leviticus 25:15
But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
— Leviticus 25:28
If it is not redeemed by the end of a full year, then the house in the walled city is permanently transferred to its buyer and his descendants. It is not to be released in the Jubilee.
— Leviticus 25:30
But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
— Leviticus 25:31
So whatever belongs to the Levites may be redeemed—a house sold in a city they possess—and must be released in the Jubilee, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their possession among the Israelites.
— Leviticus 25:33
Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
— Leviticus 25:40
He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
— Leviticus 25:50
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, he is to calculate and pay his redemption according to his remaining years.
— Leviticus 25:52