Leviticus 25:8-55

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:15

According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbour ,.... That is, reckoning how many years had past since the last jubilee, and how many there were to come to the next, and so give as many years' purchase as were yet to come: and according to the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee ; only care was to be taken, that as many years as were sabbatical ones, which were not years of fruit, should be deducted out of the account by the seller;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:16

According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof ,.... More was to be asked and required, and should be given for an estate, when, for instance, there were thirty years to the year of jubilee, than when there were but twenty: and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it ; if it wanted but five, or six, or ten years unto it, then, in proportion, less was to be insisted upon and given: for according to the number of the years of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:17

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another ,.... By over or underrating estates: but thou shalt fear thy God ; and the fear of God being before their eyes, and on their hearts, would preserve both buyer and seller from doing an ill thing, when it was in the power of either, through the necessity of the one, or the ignorance of the other, see Nehemiah 5:15 , for I am the Lord your God ; omniscient, and knows all that is done in the most private and artful manner; and omnipotent... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:18

Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them ,.... These and all others he enjoined; by which tenure, even obedience to all his commands, moral, ritual, and judicial, they were to hold the land of Canaan, and their possessions in it, which is intended in the next clause: and ye shall dwell in the land in safety ; without any fear of enemies, or of the neighbouring nations about them seizing upon them, and distressing them; and Jarchi observes, that it was for... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:19

And the land shall yield her fruit ,.... That is, continually, and even in the seventh year, the sabbath of rest; for the land, though not manured, ploughed, and sowed, nor the vines, olives, and fig trees pruned, yet shall yield fruit as in other years, the Israelites observing the statutes and judgments of God: and ye shall eat your fill ; feel no want of provisions, but have fulness of everything as at other times, and never make a scanty meal, having sufficiency and plenty of all... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:20

And ye shall say, what shall ye eat the seventh year ?.... Such as are of little faith, disbelieve the promise, and distrust the providence of God, and take thought for tomorrow, and indulge an anxiety of mind how they shall be provided with food in the sabbatical year ordered to be observed, in which there were to be no tillage of land, nor pruning of trees: behold, we shall not sow ; that being forbidden: nor gather in our increase ; neither the barley, nor the wheat, nor the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:21

Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year ,.... Upon their fields, vineyards, and oliveyards, and make them exceeding fruitful, more than in other years; all fruitfulness at any time depends upon the blessing of God, and follows upon it, but is more visible and observable when there is an exceeding great plenty: and it shall bring forth fruit for three years ; and thus God blessed the sixth year with such a plentiful increase as was sufficient for time to come, until a... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:22

And ye shall sow the eighth year ,.... Sow the land in the eighth year, and likewise dress their vines, olives, &c.; and eat yet of the old fruit ; even in the eighth year, of the old fruit of the sixth year, as the Targum of Jonathan adds: until the ninth year ; that is, as Jarchi explains it, until the feast of tabernacles of the ninth, which was the time that the increase of the eighth came into the house; for all summer it was in the field, and in Tisri or September was the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever ,.... That is, the land of Israel; the meaning is, any part of it, for that the whole might be sold or disposed of at once is not to be supposed, but anyone part of it, which was the property of a single man, or belonged to a family; though it might be sold in case of necessity, yet not for ever, so as never to return to the owner, or his heirs; for if it was sold for ever it returned in the year of the jubilee: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Leviticus 25:24

And in all the land of your possession ,.... Which they should possess in the land of Canaan, whatever part of it any of them should enjoy: ye shall grant a redemption for the land ; that is, whenever any estate in it was sold through necessity, the buyer was obliged to grant a liberty to the seller to redeem it, when it was in his power to do it, or any or his relations, especially after two years; so Jarchi observes, he that sells his possession may redeem it after two years, either he... read more

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