Leviticus 25:8-12

Bible Text

[8] "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. [9] Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. [10] You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. [11] That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. [12] For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field.

Canaan was the land God gave Israel, where the Jubilee year regulated land, labor, and economic restoration among covenant households. Egypt was the land of Israel’s former slavery; their redemption from it grounded the command to live in Canaan under God’s rule and provision.

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Leviticus 25:8-12 mentions Canaan and Egypt.

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