Sentences with phrase «year of jubilee»

This means that the land itself is not what is really sold: only the number of crops until the next year of jubilee.

He has sent me to announce the year of jubilee, the season of the Eternal's favor: for our enemies it will be a day of God's wrath; For those who mourn it will be a time of comfort.

For that reason, 1978 is as much a year of jubilee as 1980 will be.

Whether these laws were ever universally enforced, or whether indeed the year of jubilee was ever practiced at all are matters of debate among scholars.

There shall be a year of jubilee (Lev.

Was the revival of the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee a feature of Jesus» prophetic ministry?

It may also have been the fiftieth year, the year of jubilee, after seven sevens, when all land was to be returned to the original owners (Lev.

When you consider the division of land in ancient Israel, God's instructions concerning the year of jubilee, the sabbatical year, and the laws about gleaning, as well as the description of the early Church in which participants «had everything in common,» you could make the case that the ideal society is one in which wealth is shared.

He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.