Sabbatic Year

How Nave’s arranged it

• (A rest that reoccurs every seventh year)
• Called YEAR OF RELEASEDeuteronomy 15:9Deuteronomy 31:10
• Ordinances concerningExodus 23:9–11Leviticus 25
• Israelite bondservants set free inExodus 21:2Deuteronomy 15:12Jeremiah 34:14
• Creditors required to release debtors inDeuteronomy 15:1–6Deuteronomy 15:12–18Nehemiah 10:31
• Ordinances concerning instruction in the law duringDeuteronomy 31:10–13Nehemiah 8:18
• Punishment to follow violation of the ordinances concerning with 26:32-41Leviticus 26:34Leviticus 26:35Jeremiah 34:12–22
• See Jubilee

The passages, in Bible order (13)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 13 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 21:2

   If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 21:22 voices

   “We read that every Hebrew keeps the same Passover, and that in the seventh year every prisoner is set free, and that at Jubilee, that is, the fiftieth year, every possession returns to its owner. All this refers not to the present but to the future. For being in bondage during the six days of this world, on the seventh day, the true and eternal sabbath, we shall be free. If we wish to be free, we will be free even while still in bondage in the world.

   “If thou buy an Hebrew servant,....

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2. Exodus 23:9–11

   Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 23:9–112 voices

   “Also thou shall not oppress a stranger,....

   “Ye know the heart of a stranger - Having been strangers yourselves, under severe, long continued, and cruel oppression, ye know the fears, cares, anxieties, and dismal forebodings which the heart of a stranger feels. What a forcible appeal to humanity and compassion!

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3. Leviticus 25:1

   Then the LORD said to Moses on Mount Sinai,

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 25:12 voices

   “The sabbatical year and the year of Jubilee belong to that great sabbatical system which runs through the religious observances of the Law, but rest upon moral rather than upon formally religious ground. It is not, therefore, without reason that they are here set apart from the set times which fell strictly within the sphere of religious observances.

   “And the Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai,....

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4. Leviticus 26:34

   Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 26:342 voices

   “Then shall the land enjoy her Sabbaths - This Houbigant observes to be a historical truth - “From Saul to the Babylonish captivity are numbered about four hundred and ninety years, during which period there were seventy Sabbaths of years; for 7, multiplied by 70, make 490. Now the Babylonish captivity lasted seventy years, and during that time the land of Israel rested.

   “Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths,....

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5. Leviticus 26:35

   As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

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   “As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest,....

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6. Deuteronomy 15:1–6

   At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

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   “At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. Not of servants, for they were not to be dismissed from their service until they had served six years, as is directed to in a following law; for if they were to be set free whenever a sabbatical year came, they might be discharged when they had not served more than a year, or than half a year, or than a month or two.

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7. Deuteronomy 15:9

   Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought in your heart: “The seventh year, the year of release, is near,” so that you look upon your poor brother begrudgingly and give him nothing. He will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

   ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 15:91 voice

   “Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart,....

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8. Deuteronomy 15:12

   If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.

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   “And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee,....

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9. Deuteronomy 31:10

   Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of remission of debt, during the Feast of Tabernacles,

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   “And Moses commanded them,....

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10. Nehemiah 8:18

    Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. The Israelites kept the feast for seven days, and on the eighth day they held an assembly, according to the ordinance.

    ›Commentary on Nehemiah 8:182 voices

    “He read from the book of the law of God, etc. As far as the meaning of the text goes, the Feast of Tabernacles was typically celebrated for seven days, that is, from the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the moon, up to …

    “Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God,.... That is, Ezra; this was done by him every day during the feast, whereas only the first and last days were the holy convocations on which it seems to have been read: and they kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according to the manner; prescribed in Lev 23:39.

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11. Nehemiah 10:31

    When the people of the land bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on a Sabbath or holy day. Every seventh year we will let the fields lie fallow, and will cancel every debt.

    ›Commentary on Nehemiah 10:312 voices

    “The peoples of the land, who bring goods for sale, etc. And for us, the Sabbath is always to be kept spiritually, always to abstain from servile work, that is, from sin, always to be free and to see that the Lord himself is God, …

    “And if the people of the land bring ware,....

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12. Jeremiah 34:12–22

    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

    ›Commentary on Jeremiah 34:12–221 voice

    “Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord,.... The word of Jehovah the Son, from Jehovah the Father, because of this transgression of the princes and people, and as soon as it was committed by them; for it is plain, from Jer 34:21, that it was before the Chaldean army returned to Jerusalem, after its departure from it: saying; as follows:

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13. Jeremiah 34:14

    Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.

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    “At the end of seven years,....

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